>.<
Squinting? Something smelly? Closed eyes? Cat whiskers?
(This is looking at it **without **tilting my head.)
I always took it as “Embarrassed” or “Sheepish”.
Doesn’t Cartman on South Park have that expression from time to time? (The other kids, too, of course; I just thought Cartman when I first saw it.)
Wiki identifies it as Eastern based. Means “angry/damnit” or Cartman.
For a minute, I thought it was a variation of ))<>((. 
Uh…“Fu Manchu really does not like the sweet-and-sour sauce here.”
Looks a little like Gilbert Gottfried or French Stewart.
I was thinking …
a.) happy place
b.) really unhappy place, althought I suppose that would be ).( instead.
‘dammit’ or ‘gosh, I’m constipated’
Moved Cafe Society --> MPSIMS
Which means?
I’m guessing goatse.
Looks like “I’m pooping.”
I’ve always read that one as “I don’t believe you just said that/why do I put up with an idiot like you/slow count”.
Watch the movie “You and Me and Everyone We Know,” a truly great film. Just describing what it means does not tell you what it means, since the meaning is more than just what the emoticon is describing.
:smack:
Yes, I believe it means something like “D’oh!”
I use it as a wince or a d’oh. >.<
Alternately, this one works too ><
Now here’s me rockin’ OUT! \m/ (><) \m/
A kitty!! >^_^<
I use this for a look of disapproval. ಠ_ಠ
Wow, I have been using it wrong.