Jahled, frustrated at not being able to understand other people on the internet when they use wierd symbols, did a spot of research whilst he had some lunch. This is what he found:

 

Your basic smiley, 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

 

(-: User is left handed

 

%-) User has been staring at a green screen for 15 hours straight

 

:*) User is drunk

 

[:] User is a robot

 

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 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)

 

Nyahhhh!

 

:-S User just made an incoherent statement

 

User is laughing (at you!)

 

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

 

Uh oh!

 

( It's Mr Bill!

 

*) 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

 

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

 

:] Gleep a friendly midget smiley who will gladly be your friend

 

Happy

 

:> hmm, let me think

 

Laughter

 

:I Hmmm, not funny!

 

Sad

 

:[ Real Downer

 

:

 

:{ oh boy, the headmaster!

 

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

 

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

 

smiley singing national anthem

 

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

 

:-

 

"my lips are sealed" smiley

 

:-c bummed out smiley

 

:-v talking head smiley

 

smiley smoking a pipe

 

0-) smiley cyclops (scuba diver?)

 

:

 

:> midget smiley

 

ha ha

 

|-) hee hee

 

|-D ho ho

 

:-> hey hey

 

boo hoo

 

:-I hmm

 

uh oh

 

nyah nyah

 

|-P yuk

 

~~ net flame

 

X-( net suicide

 

>:-I net startrek

 

3:o[ net pets

 

Male :-

 

Female >-

 

Infinity 8

 

%\v Picasso

 

smiley

 

> a little devil

 

%-| been working all night

 

: wears glasses

 

} bull headed

 

:-{) has a mustache

 

:-# braces

 

:-& tounge-tied

 

big smile

 

C|:-= Charlie Chaplin

 

=|= Abe Lincoln

 

:-W speak with forked tongue

 

:-@ "I swear"

 

my lips are sealed

 

:-C really bummed out

 

C= chef

 

* Santa Claus

 

Mr Bill

 

*) Bozo

 

:*) Ed McMahon

 

[ wearing a walkman

 

) double chin

 

:-7 smokes a pipe

 

C:# football player

 

:-)8 man with bowtie

 

) I stubbed my toe

 

) You stepped on my toe

 

) You backed your car over my toe

 

 

: *> a cat

 

/

 

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

 

Said with a smile

 

%- Drunk with laughter

 

Kiss kiss

 

:-" Pursing lips

 

:-[ Pouting

 

:-# My lips are sealed

 

A big wet kiss!

 

Tongue hanging out in anticipation

 

:-Y A quiet aside

 

8-| Eyes wide with surprise

 

>-

 

&-| Tearful

 

|-{ "Good Grief!" (Charlie Brown?)

 

:-} "Thish wine tashted pretty good"

 

8-] "wow, maaan"

 

"Omigod!!" (done after "rm -rf *" ?)

 

:-, "Hmmmm "

 

|~( "Someone just busted my nose"

 

:^D "Great! I like it!"

 

B-D "Serves you right, dummy!!"

 

However, if that's not enough he's found a great Arabic-translating page.

Edited March 29, 200323 yr by Jahled

Did you actually eat anything as well during that lunck break?

I didn't actually type all that text dude!

 

My three favourites are:

 

:-{} user has a mustache

 

\ user shaved one of his eye brows off this morning

 

@= user is pro-nuclear war

I wasn't referring to your typing all that text..... But you seem to have done an awful lot of research...

Well, I would have simply done a link to the page I found them on, but the rest of the page was so indescribably boring I figured it wouldn't be fair to expose anybody else to it. I copied and pasted.

 

Wierdly,when it pasted, whatever powers these forums added the yellow faces automatically.

I think that some of Zoot's evil is rubbing off on you..... and on these forums (or is it fori?)

Hmmm, i go with forums. Fori sounds like an insult that used to be hurled at my brother.

He was mischievously nicknamed Fori?

 

Guess what this is, Jahled:

 

{:

It's probably 'Jahled is a nerd!'

Nope. Guess again....

Jahled is a dork-head beetle-butt dweeb?

Uh-uh. Guess again...

Dude, i'm running out of ways to cuss myself....

 

Ok, Garbled-brained geek....heavens above I GIVE UP!!!

Okay then. It was my artist's impression of a Darth Vader emoticon. The closest I could get to anything resembling him, in emoticon terms, that is.

 

Oh, and by the way: I do think you're dweebie.

 

Despite having to completely brake my neck checking that one...it's not bad!!!

I hope you're referring to my emoticon and not to the open air.

 

I'm more or less planning to beat you at giffing as well. Nevertheless, I don't think that anyone has created a Darth Vader emoticon yet....

I haven't seen one.

Quite a post Jahled.

My favorite is:

{:

Why go nuclear if you can command a SSD or Death Star?

I haven't seen one.

Quite a post Jahled.

My favorite is:

{:

 

 

You gonna use that as your signature, dude?

I don't understand why the @ makes him pro nuclear war?

Go through the list on the original post....

 

Then read Scathane's posts...

I don't understand why the @ makes him pro nuclear war?

 

Here we go Miggeldude:

1. Tilt you head sideways to the left

2. Look at the symbol again: @=

 

See the mushroom?

Aha! Sorry, I rather dumbly thought that the = was a um =, and not part of the sign!

Elvis, after seeing the mushroom you no longer need to have your head tilted to the left.

Perhaps I'll add it to my signature.

Sure he could have a SSD, or a DS. Agaisnt Ewoks' I'd use a couple of nukes, then the SSD and last the SSD to killl of the radioactive-mutated Ewoks...

You sick puppy!