well, excuuuse me

I have to say ":)" is about the worst smily/emoticon thing i have seen in a long time.

I hate text, and I hate you. Go back to Afganistan, commie.

Er, I mean: #:^(

Back when the pipe symbol was broken in two and looked like a long colon, I made Asian smilies. Now I'm forced to make regular, round-eyed American smilies, or the aformentioned "deadpan smily". :|

This would never happen to me!!

I have coldsores! :% Or something!

Sometimes .... you're too cute for words.

Anil, you're a darling. Some of us who 'get you' just don't leave comments! Me, I can't stand to leave a comment just to 'be seen', y'know, 'making an appearance' in someone's comment box just so everyone knows what I read. But just to let you know - I 'get it'.

(at least I think I get it)

Aside from the :| smiley thingy, I like to use -_-

Although I guess it's more of an "I'm not paying attention..." look :/

saucy? ^_~

I stick my tongue out at you:
:}

A man after my own heart.

: \

One could always resort to the more expressive Japanese Emoticons... \(^O^)/

Heh... I like that a lot ":)"

Yeah, but you're forgetting the bestest-ever smiley:

 *
*-:)
 *

The Shirley Temple smiley.

:{)>

Goatees Rule!

Ah, the days of ASCII art...

your mad, everybody's mad and I hate xml. it solves nothing. there I said it! :%

O.,.O

You all forgot the "blow me" homoticon.

8===> O-:

Of course, the thing about the "smiley face in air quotes" is that, well, they're actual quotes. Literal, actual, on-screen quotation marks. Nothing airy about them.