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:-)
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 hosehead

-:-)
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 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 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 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)

8-)
smiley swimmer

:-*
smiley after eating something bitter

:-0
smiley orator

(:-(
unsmiley frowning

(:-)
smiley big-face

):-)
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.

:-
undecided smiley

:-|
"have an ordinary day" smiley

:-<
real sad 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

.-]
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

:<
midget unsmiley

:>
midget smiley

}:^#})
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

<:I
dunce

(:I
egghead

B-)
horn-rims

8:-)
glasses on forehead

:-8(
condescending stare

>:-<
mad

Drama :-(

Comedy :-)

Surpise :-o

Suspense 8-|

Male :-

Female >-

Birth |-O

Death 8-#

Infinity 8