:-) Your standard smiley face. User is happy, or just made a mildly sarcastic comment
:-( Sad face
;-) Winky face - expressing a flirtatious or sarcastic remark.
:-> User just made an especially mean or sarcastic comment - more powerful than :-) or ;-)
>:-) Grinning devil - either the user is a Marilyn Manson fan or they just made an extremely devilish comment. More powerful than :->.
>;-> Winking devil - Eep! User just made a very, very mean or evil comment. Strongest of them all.
O:-) User is angelic/just made a sweet and innocent remark
:-O Yelling or shocked. Can be typed in bold for extra impact.
:-I Indifferent
NOT QUITE AS COMMONLY USED EMOTICONS
These emoticons are still widely used, just not as much as the ones in the section above. If you use these emoticons in an e-mail to a person who's kinda new to the internet, they may or may not know what you're talking about.
:^) Profile smiley.
=) Variation on a classic.
#-) What a night!/has been staring at a computer screen for 5 hours straight
:-$ Put your money where your mouth is!
:-P or :-p or :-6 Sticking tongue out (Na, na, na na na!)
:-P~~ Blowing a raspberry
:-9 Yum!
:-@ Screaming/swearing/about to hurl
:*) Drunk
:-# or :-X An emoticon of many meanings - being smacked in the mouth/wears braces/kiss/my lips are sealed
8-) or B-) or ::-) Wearing glasses
B:-) Wearing glasses on head
R-) Broken glasses
(:-) Bald/wearing a bike helmet
:-{} Wears lipstick
{:-{) Has a moustache and a toupee
@:-) Wears a turban
$-) Yuppie/just won a large sum of money
:-T Keeping a straight face/tight lipped
:-y Said with a smile
:'-( or :~-( Crying
:-Q or :-! Smoker
%-/ Hangover
|-O Bored/yawn
=:-) Hosehead/punk
:-D Big mouth/grinning
:+) Big nose
[:-) Walkman
;^) Smirking
(:-D Blabbermouth
:-& Tongue tied
:-S Just made a statement that didn't make sense
:-/ Skeptical
:-C Very, very sad
%-/ braindead
<:-| Dunce/just made a stupid statement
:-8( Condescending
8-# Dead
:@ or :{ What?
[]:* Hugs & kisses!
@>–>– A rose
Um, OK…
These emoticons don't convey an emotion. In fact, they serve no purpose except to look cute. And unless the person you send them to is a cybergeek like you (and me)they won't know what you're gibbering about. But they're very cute and collectible.
8:] A gorilla
^_^ A cute li'l anime type thing, viewed from front
+-<:-) The pope
*<|:o)> Santa Claus
:-% A banker
:-: A mutant
(-:|:-) Siamese twins
C):-O
C):-O
C):-O
C):-O A barbershop quartet
3:-o A cow
8:-) A pig/a little girl
:\/ A woodpecker
.-) One eye
,-) One eye, and it's winking
':-) One eyebrow
,:-) Same, but it's the other eyebrow
#:-) Messy hair/fur hat/crew cut
&:-) Curly hair
C=:-) A chef
><:>== A turkey
><:>==O A butterball turkey
:=) Two noses
:_) Broken nose/nose is sliding off face/a boxer who got hit one too many times
<<<<<<:-) a hat salesman
p:-) Wearing a baseball cap
:-[ A vampire
:-] A happy vampire
:-E A bucktoothed vampire
:-F A bucktoothed vampire with one tooth missing
(:I An egghead
p:-) Baseball fan
(-) Needs a haircut
[:] A robot
>>:-) A klingon
:-? Smokes a pipe
:—–} Liar!/Pinnochio
!-( Black eye
#^%&*@$:-) A schizophrenic
:-|:-| Deja vu
><*:oDX A clown
~:o A baby
P-) A pirate
{:-) Toupee
:<) From an ivy league school
O-) Scuba diver
:-' Spitting
@== Pro nuclear war
3:] My pet smiley!
3:[ My pet smiley doesn't like you
d8= Beaver wearing goggles and a hard hat
K:P Little kid with a propellor beanie
8:<3 Hamster
|*-*| Cassette tape
<*}}}> Dead fish
(::[]::) Bandaid
()__CRAYOLA___(> crayon
Celebrity Emoticons
This is our section for celebrities. They're very, um, interesting. You'll probably never see these either.
:-.) Cindy Crawford
%-~ Picasso
3:*> Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
8(:-) Mickey Mouse
:—–} Pinocchio
@@@@8^) Marge Simpson
=(_8^(1) Homer Simpson
38^) Bart Simpson (If you have a Lisa or Maggie Simpson, e-mail us!)
=|:-)= Uncle Sam/Abe Lincoln
7:-) Fred Flintstone
5:-J Elvis
(*O*) Baby Spice (you have to think of the O as the head and everything else as hair)
##O## Scary Spice
(*O Sporty Spice
(((O))) Ginger Spice
(O) Posh Spice