Conference rdvax::grateful

233.0. "Smiley Face Data Base" by TLE::WEISS (No way I'll crash, this is a *BEER* truck!) Tue Jan 14 1992 12:41

Hi All

  I found the list of smiley faces that was once sent to me.

Here they are...
 
 :-o    Wow!                       :-c     Real unhappy
 
 :-|    Grim                       :-C     Just totally unbelieving
 
 := |   Baboon                     :-B     Drooling
 
 :-v    Speaking                   :-,     Smirk
 
 :-V    Shout                      :-||    Anger
 
 :-w    Speak with forked tongue   :-)     Smiling
 
 :-r    Sticking tongue out        :-(     Frowning
 
 :-*    Oops!                      '-)     Wink
 
 :-T    Keeping a straight face    ;-)     Sardonic Incredulity
 
 :-D    Said with a smile          %-<I>   Drunk with laughter
 
 :-x    Kiss kiss                  :-"     Pursing lips
 
 :-[    Pouting                    :-#     My lips are sealed
 
 :-X    A big wet kiss!            :-P     Tongue hanging out in anticipation
 
 :-Y    A quiet aside              8-|     Eyes wide with surprise
 
 >-<    Absolutely livid!!         &-|     Tearful
 
 |-{    "Good Grief!"  (Charlie Brown?)
 
 :-}	"Thish wine tashted pretty good"
 
 8-]	"wow, maaan"
 
 8-O	"Omigod!!" (done after "rm -rf *" ?)
 
 :-,	"Hmmmm."
 
 |~(	"Someone just busted my nose".
 
 :^D	"Great! I like it!"
 
 B-D     "Serves you right, dummy!!"
 
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IBM SHARE/Northeast Regional Data Center, Gainsville, Florida/Update, May 1985
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The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary
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:-)   Your basic smiley. This smilie is used to inflect a sarcastic or
      joking statement since we can't hear voice inflection over Unix.
;-)   Winky smiley. User just made a flirtatious and/or sarcastic remark.
      More of a "don't hit me for what I just said" smiley.
:-(   Frowning smiley. User did not like that last statement or is upset
      or depressed about something.
:-I   Indifferent smiley. Better than a Frowning smilie but not quite as 
      good as a happy smiley
:->   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 just made a wry statement
:-*   User just ate something sour
;-(  User is crying
;-)  User is so happy, s/he is crying
:-@   User is screaming
:-#   User wears braces
:^)   User has a broken nose
:<)   User is from an Ivy League School
:-&   User is tongue tied.
+-:-) 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 Chinese
<|-(  User is Chinese and doesn't like these kind of jokes
:-/   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 smiley
3:[   Mean Pet smiley
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 Smiley
      The invisible smiley
.-)   User only has one eye
,-)   Ditto...but he's winking
X-(   User just died
%\v   Picasso
C=}>;*{O)  Mega-Smiley... 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 smileys.
 
:] - Gleep...a friendly midget smiley who will gladly be your friend
:) - Happy
:> - hmm, let me think...
:D - Laughter
:I - Hmmm, not funny!
:( - Sad
:[ - Real Downer
:< - what pretences!
:{ - oh boy, the headmaster!...
:O - Yelling
;( - Crying
[] - Hugs and
:* - Kisses
 
 
  :-`	smiley spitting out its chewing tobacco
  :-1	smiley bland face
  :-!		"
  :-$	smiley face with it's mouth wired shut
  :-6	smiley after eating something sour
  8-)	smiley swimmer
  :-*	smiley after eating something bitter
  :-&	smiley which is tongue-tied
  :-0	smiley orator
  (:-(	unsmiley frowning
  =:-)	smiley punk-rocker
  =:-(  (real punk rockers don't smile)
  +-:-)	smiley priest
  :-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
  g-)	smiley with pince-nez glasses
  :-\	undecided smiley
  :-/	lefty undecided smiley
  :-|	"have an ordinary day" smiley
  ;-)	winking smiley
  :-<	real sad smiley
  :-x	"my lips are sealed" smiley
  :-c	bummed out smiley
  :-v	talking head smiley
  :-?	smilely smoking a pipe
  0-)	smiley cyclops (scuba diver?)
  :<	midget unsmiley
  :>	midget smiley
 
:-)	ha ha			~~:-(	net.flame
|-)	hee hee
|-D	ho ho
:->	hey hey
:-(	boo hoo			  X-(	net.suicide
:-I	hmm
:-O	uh oh			 >:-I	net.startrek
:-P	nyah nyah		 3:o[	net.pets
|-P	yuk
 
Male	:-
Female	>-
 
Infinity	8
 

and to think of it!  all of this time I was making MIDGET SMILEYS!
:) :) :)

hey I guess a midget smiley is better than no smiley at all....

bob

I like using "^" instead of "-" for the nose, for that three-dimensional / sky-
ward gazing look ... though it looks better on a VT than a DECterm ....

    posted from a mail message, many headers removed ...
    
    copied without permission...
    
   		EXCERPTED FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
		      SEPTEMBER 15, 1992. P.1

       A Story of the Type that Turns Heads in Computer Circles
		        By Michael Miller

    All over the country these days, electronic mail messages are
    concluding with this odd little punctuation sequence: :-) or one of
    its many variants, like :-(

    These are "smileys," so-called because when you tilt your head to the
    left they look like little faces with a colon for eyes and a hyphen
    for a nose. Thus when a message ends :-) it means "just kidding." If
    it ends :-( it means "I'm depressed." If it ends 7:^] it means "I
  resemble Ronald Reagan."

    One smiley dictionary circulating on computer bulletin boards lists
    664 different distinct variations, including:

    :-D       I'm laughing
    B-)       I'm cool
    :*)       I'm drunk
    :-'|      I have a cold
    {(:-)     I have a toupee
    }(:-(     I have a toupee and it's windy

    Smileys started popping up on computer screens more than a decade ago.
    The MIT Press's "New Hacker's Dictionary" attributes the very first
    smiley to a 1980 message by a Carnegie Mellon computer scientist named
    Scott Fahlman. "I wish I had saved the original post or at least
    recorded the date for posterity," he later wrote, "but I had no idea I
    was starting something that would soon pollute all the world's
    communications channels."

    On some boards, its de rigueur to use a noseless version known as
    "midget smiley," which looks like the original, ubiquitous 1970s
    happy face :)

    "Dvorak's Guide to PC Telecommunications," a popular technical tome,
    devotes four pages to the symbols. It soberly explains: "These are
    called emoticons and are used to express online the emotions of normal
    voice communications." The guide lists 105 essential examples,
    including :-8 (I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth) and =|:-)=
    (Uncle Sam).

    Why is this happening now, when for thousands of years writers have
    found it possible to express emotions without using little sideways
    smiley faces? The smiley's roots may well go back to the science
    fiction "fanzines" of the '40s and 50s, homemade cult publications
    such as "Spaceship" and "Rhodomagnetic Digest." The writer Harlan
    Ellison, a pioneer fanzine publisher, recalls that the contributors
    commonly punctuated their inside jokes with a simple sideways smile in
    quotation marks, like so:  ")"

    Today smiley scholars (there are already a handful) attribute the
    trend to the hybrid quality of e-mail, which at times is less like an
    exchange of letters than like a telephone conversation. Without some
    device to suggest a tone of voice, they say, e-mail is uniquely ripe
    for misunderstanding.

    Sometimes the smiley also helps in the difficult business of flirting
    via computer. Consider this exchange on the Well [a computer bulletin
    board]:

    She: In general I hate the smell of perfumes and deodorants, while the
    smell of certain people's fresh sweat turns me into a gooey gibbering
    mass of slithery lust."

    He: "Hmmmmmm...i work out tuesday and thursday... :-)  "

    In  he same context, a popular alternative is the "winky" ;-)

    There are computer users whose faces wrinkle with distaste at the
    whole smiley phenomenon.

    "I cringe when I see them," says the movie critic Roger Ebert, a
    hatitue of CompuServe, interviewed via e-mail. On the other hand, he
    adds, "smileys might be a real help for today's students, raised on TV
    and unskilled at spotting irony without a laugh track."

    An even fiercer anti-smiley is the comedian/magician Penn Jillette,
    who runs a computer bulletin board with his partner Teller and writes
    the "Micro Mephisto" column in PC Computing magazine. His scornful
    verdict: "As soon as you put one in you've killed the joke." In a
    recent column, he described the smiley as "the hateful :) which means
    'just kidding' and is used by people who would dot their i's with
    little circles and should have their eyes dotted with Drano."

    SIDEBAR

    The Noah Webster of smileys is David Sanderson of Madison, Wis, a
    programmer and occasional computer science graduate student. "Add
    :-)-0 to your collection (smiling doctor with a stethoscope)." His
    files currently contain 664 examples (including several too
    anatomically vivid to reprint in this newspaper). Following are some
    highlights:

    :'(       I'm crying
    :-#       My lips are sealed
    :-&       I'm tongue-tied
    %-)       I'm cross-eyed
    ':-)      I accidentally shaved off one eyebrow
    (-)       I need a haircut
    (:)-)     I'm scuba diving
    *>|:-)    I'm Santa Claus
    +-(:-)    I'm the Pope
    :-)))     I'm overweight
    =:-)      I'm a punk rocker
    :-J       I'm being tongue-in-cheek
    5:-)      I'm Elvis
    L:-)      I just graduated
    [:-)      I'm wearing a Walkman
    d:-)      I'm a baseball player
    0-)       I'm a Cyclops
    :8)       I'm a pig
    3:-o      I'm a cow
    :=8)      I'm a baboon
    (,'%/     I slept too long on one side
    :-)>-     I just washed my goatee
    :-Q       I'm smoking
    :-?       I'm smoking a pipe
    :-'        I'm chewing tobacco
    :-E       I have dental problems
    :-o       I'm bored (yawn)
    :-{}      I have heavy lipstick
    C|:-=     I'm Charlie Chaplin
    |:['      I'm Groucho Marks
    <<<<(:-)  I'm a hat salesman
    :%)%      I have acne
    C=>:*'))  I'm a drunk demonic chef with a cold and a double chin