Why are you so so serious, let's put a smile on that face . . .

The title is pun intended , but it has no whatsoever reference to the dark night, just you will see ... lots and lots of smilies... :) Smile..... As you will bombard with 100 different type of smilies

Here are a very long list of properly "documented" uses of emoticons. This had been sitting in my email inbox for a long ....... time. So as might as well share it out to the world ...

:) Hehehe ... It's time to put a smile on that face ... :D

:-) Your basic smilie. This smilie is used to inflect a sarcastic or
joking statement since we can't hear voice inflection over Unix.
;-) Winky smilie. User just made a flirtatious and/or sarcastic remark.
More of a "don't hit me for what I just said" smilie.
:-( Frowning smilie. User did not like that last statement or is upset
or depressed about something.
:-I Indifferent smilie. Better than a Frowning smilie but not quite as
good as a happy smilie
:-> User just made a really biting sarcastic remark. Worse than a :-).
:-> User just made a really devilish remark.
;-> Winky and devil combined. A very lewd remark was just made.

Those are the basic ones...Here are some somewhat less common ones:

(-: User is left handed
%-) User has been staring at a green screen for 15 hours straight
:*) User is drunk
[:] User is a robot
8-) User is wearing sunglasses
B:-) Sunglasses on head
::-) User wears normal glasses
B-) User wears horn-rimmed glasses
8:-) User is a little girl
:-)-8 User is a Big girl
:-{) User has a mustache
:-{} User wears lipstick
{:-) User wears a toupee
}:-( Toupee in an updraft
:-[ User is a Vampire
:-E Bucktoothed vampire
:-F Bucktoothed vampire with one tooth missing
:-7 User juust made a wry statement
:-* User just ate something sour
:-)~ User drools
:-~) User has a cold
:'-( User is crying
:'-) User is so happy, s/he is crying
:-@ User is screaming
:-# User wears braces
:^) User has a broken nose
:v) User has a broken nose, but it's the other way
:_) User's nose is sliding off of his face
:<) User is from an Ivy League School

:-& User is tongue tied.

=:-) User is a horsehair

-:-) User is a punk rocker

-:-( (real punk rockers don't smile)

:=) User has two noses

+-:-) User is the Pope or holds some other religious office

`:-) User shaved one of his eyebrows off this morning

,:-) Same thing...other side

|-I User is asleep

|-O User is yawning/snoring

:-Q User is a smoker

:-? User smokes a pipe

O-) Megaton Man On Patrol! (or else, user is a scuba diver)

O :-) User is an angel (at heart, at least)

:-P Nyahhhh!

:-S User just made an incoherent statement

:-D User is laughing (at you!)

:-X User's lips are sealed

:-C User is really bummed

:-/ User is skeptical

C=:-) User is a chef

@= User is pro-nuclear war

*<:-) User is wearing a Santa Claus Hat

:-o Uh oh! (8-o It's Mr. Bill!

*:o) And Bozo the Clown!

3:] Pet smilie

3:[ Mean Pet smilie

d8= Your pet beaver is wearing goggles and a hard hat

E-:-) User is a Ham radio operator

:-9 User is licking his/her lips

%-6 User is braindead

[:-) User is wearing a walkman

(:I User is an egghead

<:-I User is a dunce

K:P User is a little kid with a propeller beenie

@:-) User is wearing a turban

:-0 No Yelling! (Quiet Lab)

:-: Mutant Smilie The invisible smilie

.-) User only has one eye

,-) Ditto...but he's winking

X-( User just died

8 :-) User is a wizard

C=}>;*{)) Mega-Smilie... A drunk, devilish chef with a toupee in an updraft,
a mustache, and a double chin

Note: A lot of these can be typed without noses to make midget smilies.

:) Midget smilie
:] Gleep...a friendly midget smilie who will gladly be your friend
=) Variation on a theme...
:} - What should we call these? (what?)
:) - Happy
:> - what?
:@ - what?
:D - Laughter
:I - Hmmm...
:( - Sad
:[ - Real Downer
:< - what?

:{ - what?

:O - Yelling

:C - what?

:Q - what?

:,( - Crying

[] - Hugs and

:* - Kisses

|I - Asleep

|^o -Snoring

:-` smiley spitting out its chewing tobacco

:-1 smiley bland face

:-! "

:-@ smiley face screaming

:-#| smiley face with bushy mustache

:-$ smiley face with it's mouth wired shut

:-% smiley banker

:-6 smiley after eating something sour

:^) smiley with pointy nose (righty)

:-7 smiley after a wry statement

8-) smiley swimmer

:-* smiley after eating something bitter

:-& smiley which is tongue-tied

:-0 smiley orator smiley invisible man

(:-( unsmiley frowning

(:-) smiley big-face

):-) " ):-( unsmiley big-face

)8-) scuba smiley big-face

=:-) smiley punk-rocker

=:-( (real punk rockers don't smile)

+:-) smiley priest

:-q smiley trying to touch its tongue to its nose

:-e disappointed smiley

:-t cross smiley

:-i semi-smiley

:-o smiley singing national anthem

:-p smiley sticking its tongue out (at you!)

:-[ un-smiley blockhead :-] smiley blockhead

:-{ smiley variation on a theme

:-} ditto

{:-) smiley with its hair parted in the middle

}:-) above in an updraft :-a lefty smilely touching tongue to nose

:-s smiley after a BIZARRE comment

:-d lefty smiley razzing you

g-) smiley with ponce-nez glasses

:-j left smiling smilely

:-k beats me, looks like something, tho.

:-l y. a. s.

:-: mutant smiley

:-\ undecided smiley

:-| "have an ordinary day" smiley

;-) winking smiley

:-<>

:-> y.a.s.
:-z y.a.c.s.
:-x "my lips are sealed" smiley
:-c bummed out smiley
:-v talking head smiley
:v) left-pointing nose smiley
:-b left-pointing tongue smiley
:-/ lefty undecided smiley
:-? smilely smoking a pipe
.-] one-eyed smilely
,-} wry and winking
0-) smiley cyclops (scuba diver?)
:-=) older smiley with mustache
:u) smiley with funny-looking left nose
:n) smiley with funny-looking right nose
}:^#}) mega-smiley: updrafted bushy-mustached pointy nosed smiley with
a double-chin

:-) ha ha ~~:-( net.flame
|-) hee hee O |-) net.religion
|-D ho ho
:-> hey hey
8 :-I net.unix-wizards
:-( boo hoo
X-( net.suicide
:-I hmm
E-:-I net.ham-radio
:-O uh oh >
:-I net.startrek
:-P nyah nyah
3:o[ net.pets
|-P yuk

:-} beard
:-{ mustache
:-# braces
:-X bow tie
:-Q smoker
<:I dunce

(:I egghead

@:I turban

8-) glasses

B-) horn-rims

8:-) glasses on forehead

:-8( condescending stare

;-) wink

:-&lt
;>-  Birth 

|-O Death