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i've never been able to type in the  smiley i always have to click the picture to put in it my thread
how do i type in that line thing? i can do : but not the other half 
this has annoyed me for many many years 
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Theres a key to the left of the Z on the keyboard, hold shift and press that
[Edited on 30-08-2006 by James]
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wow 
so whats the one next to the no. "1" button, under esc?
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Dunno
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Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
wow
so whats the one next to the no. "1" button, under esc?
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from this day on my forum experience will be much more pleasurable and i can do the face as i please 
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4 years you've been registered
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Jim I will never talk about rasberry ripples with you again
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bored...
stole from wikipedia
Basic examples
The following examples all use a consistent form, but each of them can also be transformed by being rotated, having the hyphen omitted, and/or by replacing the eyes symbol. An equal sign is often used for the eyes in place of the colon, without changing the meaning of the emoticon. In these instances, the hyphen is almost always either omitted or, occasionally, replaced with an 'o' as in =o). Lately it has become common to omit the hyphen, whether a colon or an equal sign is used for the eyes [2]. Please note that the definitions for the following examples are not absolute definitions rather a general idea of their meaning.
or :-) Smile
:-)) Really happy (or fat)
 or :-( or :< Frown
X-P or X-p or xD Knocked out or dead, or strangely joking; also used for hard laughing
:-] Polite smile, or sometimes a complimented blush
@=) Falling university tomorrow initiation
:-[ Another frown, or sometimes an embarrassed blush
:-# Braces
:-/ or :-\ Skepticism, annoyance, uneasiness, or a slight frown; dissatisfaction, lack of favourable opinion on the subject, undecided
:-| Indecision, deadpan, a lack of response, or indifference; also often used with a contrasting statement to convey biting sarcasm (e.g. "That was hilarious. :-|")
:I Agh!
;-) or  or !-) or ;-p Wink
:* or :X Kiss
:-D or  Wide grin, happy smile
:-P or :-p or  or :-r or :-þ tongue sticking out; used to convey a joke, light-hearted sarcasm, inappropriateness, or a light hearted groan, as in "Ugh". Many users still interpret this as a raspberry-sound, especially long-time users of emoticons.
B-) or 8-) Wearing glasses (usually interpreted as sunglasses)
8D Wearing glasses (or sunglasses) with a large smile
:-o or :-O or :-0 or :O Surprise, shock
:S or :-s or :-S Confusion, incoherent
:-8 or :-B Buck teeth
:-F or :F Vampire teeth or blood leaking from mouth.
:-x sealed lips; used to convey "I shouldn't have said that" or sometimes shocked silence; can be taken to mean "no comment"
:-9 or :-6 Licking lips
:9 Something is yummy
:'-( or :_( or :*( or :…( or ;_; or ;0; Shedding a tear
> or >:O or :@ Angry/Yelling
> or >=( Angry/Grumpy
>:3 A cat or lion
;p Wink Razz
) Clown face, can mean tongue-in-cheek
;-^) Tongue-in-cheek
};-> or >:-) or }:-) or > or > Eyebrows or horns; evil, being mean, a devil
}:=3) or }:=8) Dragon (smile version), complete with horns and snout
0:-) Halo over the head, an angel, innocence
XD or xD Childish laugh, or laughing really hard
KD The equivalent of XD
D-: or D: Horror (read right to left)
:V Mouth opened comically wide (in some communities, e.g. Ragnarok Online, it is considered a duck)
:-t Angry
:-> Grin
:*) Blush; (sometimes used to illustrate "drunk")
:-)* Kiss 2
:^o Liar liar
:-& Tongue-tied
:-{D Mustache
>~ Devil with goatee
;( Sad wink/Crying
(:3= Walrus
:3 Sign of cuteness, a kitty face (curiosity), or "buttface"
;-) or :> or ;> Witty, or pleased
>D or > Evil
>( or D< "or" >P Mad, Furious, Annoyed Note: Faces without eyes are also known as "gruntfaces", and addition of parentheses, Ds, Ps or <s at the end (depending on the last character of said gruntface) is used for emphasis. Some groups of people use these as their regular smileys (often in conjunction with LAMALOing), and so for these people it is not an "evil" face but a face that they use as sort of a clique habit.
:J variation of the typical smiling face, also used to express "tongue-in-cheek" remarks
<3 "heart" as in "I <3 U"; sometimes parodically extended to "<33333" or replaced with "less-than-three"
<8 "heart" as in "I <8 you" but shows infinite love. This maintains the heart shape and also maintains a similarity between 8 and the infinity symbol.
</3 a broken heart, often used alone
<# "hate" as in "I <# you" (the # symbol shares the 3 key on some keyboard layouts)
3^o Tubgirl
%-} amused
\-o bored
0 angel
:Q what?
:'-) crying with joy
:-* oops
8) glasses, frog, sometimes toad
) can't stop talking
( egg head
8-| nerd
:,( crying
:-6 exhausted
|-0 yawning
:-@ screaming
|-) hee hee
%-) confused
:-)(-: married
:-{} blowing a kiss
~:-0 baby
:-V shouting
(\:=) Hitler
-): Picasso
Z< or X< dancing happily
|:-( Frida Kahlo
,( P-]> Pirate
:9 Billy from The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy
`,:-| Raising an eyebrow, as in, "Huh?"
(_8^(|) Homer Simpson
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Non-rotational emoticons
Not all emoticons are meant to be looked at sideways. The following are emoticons that are meant to be looked at without rotation.
<°)))>< Goldfish
@>-'-,-- A rose
u <8 ))>><((((°> You infinitely love pooping goldfish
u <8 ))>><((((°>(( You infinitely love pooping goldfish back and forth
\-_-/ Megatron
(|--m-O-m--|) Weightlifting
(_>@<_) or E(_O_)3 or E@3 or /-{ }-\ Goatse
( @ ) ( @ ) or (oYo) or (.).) or (.)(.) or (.Y.) breasts
(()) or ({;}) or ///<.>\\\ or (ô) vagina
(i) vulva
8==D or <===3 penis and testicles
3=8 sexsual act
(_l_) or (_x_) or (_*_) or (_o_) or ( Y ) a butt
))<>(( poop back and forth (from Me and You and Everyone We Know)
~° sperm
|_ "take a seat"
\_ "recline it" (stronger form of "take a seat")
_ _ "full recline" (strongest form of "take a seat")
orz or OTL or OTZ a person facing left and crouching on hands and knees with their head on the floor. May denote despair, worship, or intense laughter.
^5 high five (technically, not an emoticon)
>< wince (doh!)
QQ cry
^_^ smug, or happy
.!.. or _|_ the middle finger
<=======}==O a sword
=/\= star trek starfleet insignia or combadge
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Variants
There are endless possibilities, because people are very good at creating and interpreting pictures as faces. See ASCII art.
Some variants are also more common in certain countries because of reasons like keyboard layouts, for example the smiley =) is common in Scandinavia and Finland where the keys for = and ) are placed right beside each other and both need the use of the shift key.
A few people turn the smiley around, a "left handed" smiley (: This left-handed smiley can sometimes cause miscommunication though, since some hardcore net addicts tend to drop the : representing the eyes [leaving ) instead of ] so what was intended to be a smile could be interpreted as a frown.
There also exists the use of umlauts to achieve emoticons that aren't tilted to the side. For example, Ö is the upright version of :O (meaning that one is alarmed).
As more of a joke than anything – but also as a political statement – "frownies", the symbol :-( , were trademarked by Despair, Inc. in U.S. Trademark Serial No. 75502288, Registration No. 2347676. The trademark applies only to "Printed matter namely, greeting cards, posters and art prints". In January 2001 Despair issued a satirical press release in which it was announced that the company would be suing "over 7 million internet users" who had infringed their trademark. They subsequently issued another press release a month later in response to the reaction their claim had generated.
XD (used to represent laughing) supposedly became popular on the internet shortly after it was used in the television show, South Park, usually explained to the unknowing as the emoticon being akin to the animation method used when a character was laughing so hard they had their eyes closed (a sideways X for their eyes).
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Head and arm emoticons
Some of these emoticons aren't rotated, they include the letter "o" for a human head, and slashes and backslashes for the arms.
o/ _o/ .o/ waving with or raising the left hand (person facing you)
\o \o_ \o. waving with or raising the right hand (person facing you); this is sometimes used to mimic a Nazi salute
/o scratching one's head
/o\ or <o> despair, cowering
\o/ joy
<o/ _o> <o> dancing
<o_/ \_o/ fencing
>-<o jumping, diving
o7 saluting
*\o/* cheerleader
<o o> honor
They're also usable for displaying "animations", e.g. a crowning process:
o/" _o
o_ "\o
o_ <ö
o/ \ö/
Or for displaying how to dance "YMCA":
\o/ ^o^ o< /o\
Or the Kirby Dance:
<("< <("^) (^"^) (^")> (>")>
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Posture emoticons
orz (sometimes seen as OTL Or2, On_, OTZ, O7Z, Sto, Jto, _no, _|￣|○ spawned a subculture in late 2004.[3] It illustrates a person facing left and kneeling on the ground: the "o" symbolizes the head, the "r" represents the arms and the body while the "z" shows the legs. Though people use the pictograph to show that they have failed and/or they are in despair, some people, in Taiwan, use it to show that they laugh a lot so that they kneel down. It is not read phonetically, the letters are spelled out. Not to be confused with m(_ _)m, which means an apology.
Orz is associated sometimes with the phrase "nice guy" - that is, the concept of males being rejected for a date by girls they are pursuing with a phrase like "You're a nice guy," "I'd like to be your friend," etc., à la "nice guy syndrome".
On imageboards, it has been used not only for failure and despair, but also as a symbol for the kowtow, illustrating instead a person bowing down in worship of a certain picture that was posted.
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Handicons
Recently developed are "handicons" to represent hand gestures. They can be seen either right or left-handed (the examples below are shown from the perspective of facing a right-handed gesture). Many variantions use "." as a knuckle instead of "n" or "m". For the other hand, one simply reverses the order of the line and switches the knuckle (< for left, > for right).
Left___Right__Txt
<lml or \m/ or \,,/ Devil horns or rock jackal; commonly the hand gesture for "rock on" among rock fans (left)
nlm> Flashing "the bird" (right)
<mnl The Doctor Evil pinky as popularized by Austin Powers
Version 2.0 dr.evil handicon
<mm Props or the knuckle (often returned likewise as a greeting)
<Vm The Peace sign
<\V/ or \V/_ The Vulcan (Star Trek), Vulcan salute or "live long and prosper"
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East Asian style
Users from East Asia (particularly Japanese language speakers those who visit 2channel) popularized a style of emoticons known as verticons (顔文字, kaomoji?, literally "face characters"), which can be understood without turning one's head to the left. These styles of faces roughly resemble the style commonly found in Japanese anime and manga comic books.
These emoticons are usually found in a format similar to (*_*), where the asterisks indicate the eyes, the central character, usually an underscore, the mouth, and the parentheses, the outline of the face. A large number of different characters can be used to replace the eyes, which usually is where the emoticon derives its emotive aspect (contrasting the Western emoticons' emoting through the mouth). The emphasis on the eyes is reflected in the common usage of emoticons that use only the eyes, e.g. ^^. Characters like hyphens or periods can replace the underscore; the period is often used for a smaller, "cuter" mouth or to represent a nose, e.g. (^.^). Alternatively, the mouth/nose can be left out entirely, e.g. (^^). The parentheses also can often be replaced with braces, e.g. {^_^}. Many times, the parentheses are left out completely, e.g. o.o . A quotation mark ", apostrophe ', or semicolon ; can be appended to the emoticon to imply apprehension or embarrassment, à la the anime sweat drop. Many other characters can be appended to also indicate arms or hands, e.g. <(^_^)> or
⊂( ﾟ ヮﾟ⊃.
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Basic examples
d^_^b or d-_-b listening to music
)-0_0-( astonishment
(^_^) or (^-^) or (^ ^) smiley
(`_^) or (^_~) wink
(>_< pretending to be cute, or pain, or frustration
(<_> sad
(^o^) singing, or laughing maniacally
m(_ _)m bowing
t(-_-t) flipping the bird
(~_O) one-eyed pirate, monacle user
\(^o^)/ very excited (raising hands)
(-_-) or (~_~) or (=_=) annoyance, resignation, or sleeping (eyes shut), grumpy
(~.~) sleepy
(-_- or (^_^') or (^_^);; or ^_^" nervousness, or sweatdrop (embarrassed; semicolon can be repeated)
(-_-#) or (-_-¤) vein (used to show frustration)
(¬_¬) eyeing something or someone, or otherwise glaring, sometimes used as an expression of rolling one's eyes
(<_< or (>_> or (c_c) skepticism, looking around suspiciously
(;_ or (T_T) or (ToT) crying
(@_@) dazed
`(•.°)~ druggy, trippin'
(o_O) or (o.O) confused surprise, disturbed
(0_< flinch, nervous wink
(O_O) shocked (also O.o - one eye smaller than the other)
(._.) intimidated, sad, ashamed
($_$) money eyes; thinking about money ( also sometimes changeable to other currency symbols such as (¥_¥) )
(x_x) or (+_+) dead, exhausted or knocked out; giving up, lost, confused
(n_n) or (n.n) happy, pleased
(u_u) or (u.u) annoyance, sarcasm, sometimes disappointment
(9_9) or (@.@) rolling eyes
(e_e) mischief, distrust
(e_o) or (o_e) eye twitching
*-* or *_* or *.* or *0* or *o* or *w* or *x* or *¬* star-struck
(",) smirk
("o) side shocked
(-.-)zzZ or -_-zzZ sleeping
(o)_(o) alternative for tired; sometimes used to illustrate crazed
;o; or ;O; crying loudly/shouting
T_T or TT_TT or Y_Y or TToTT or T.T exaggerated crying, so that the eyes are closed and tears stream down the face
I_I "What?", mellow
owo or OwO or òwo surprise
¬3¬ or ¬w¬ or ¬.¬ or ¬¬ or ¬_¬ Sarcastic face
nwn or nWn Happy, kitty face
n//n Proud
x.X or x.x or x_x Dead
(f-_-)f Zombie
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Complex examples
\m/ d-_-b \m/ Rocker listening to music
(ô ô) boy (sometimes also used to indicate surprise)
(ö ö) girl
(ó ò) surprised, scared
(ò ó) angry
(ó ô) quizzical or "Indeed" (designed to mimic Star Trek's Mr. Spock)
(╥_─ annoyed, hiding frustration, dread
=^_^= blushing, or a cat face (mischievous)
-^_^- blushing
fO_o scratching head
^n_n^ catgirl or boy
d-_-b listening to music, labeling title afterwards
~~~~>_<~~~~ weeping horribly
<(^_^)>,(>^_^)>, etc. dancing, especially used to specifically show Kirby dancing
(>^_^)> <(^_^< hugging
(>^(>O_o)> sexual intercourse, normally used to depict rape and/or anal sex (extensible)
( ~^_^)~ dancing
(9ò_ó)-o fighting, throwing a punch
Q(^.^Q) equivalent to "(9ò_ó)-o"
/¯\_/°^_^°\_/¯\ Sailor Moon (extensible)
w-('u')-w Kilroy was here (extensible)
p(^o^)q good luck
b(~_^)b, d-(^_^)-b, (b^_^)b, etc. thumbs-up
p(-_-)p thumbs-down
t(-_-t) or ,,l,(>.<,l,, flipping off
(^^ .)\\// giving the V-sign
m <(~_~)> m kitten
\m/>_<\m/ rockin' out
\,,/(^_^)\,,/ happy rockin'
(¬_¬)/¯ "It's good... to go!"
\0-0/ wearing glasses (nerd)
Q_Q or QQ 2 eyes crying.
¯\(°_o)/¯ a shrug, confused misunderstanding
(ρ_-)o sleepy / rubbing eyes
ʄ σ,..,σ ʄ ghost
( ._.)ø or ø(._. ) writing
(._.) Sometimes used in place of (o.o); used as shock or confusion. (.-.) is just the upside down version of this emoticon
("\(.:...:.)/") Monster with claws. Usually followed by "RAWR!!!"
p(^o^)q Cheer!
<(-.-< (>-.-)> Kirby
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Western use of East Asian style
English-language anime forums adopted kaomoji that could be used with the standard ASCII characters available on western keyboards. Because of this, they are often called "anime style" emoticons in the English-speaking Internet. They have since seen use in more mainstream venues, including online gaming, instant-messaging, and other non-anime related forums. Emoticons such as <(^_^)>, which include the parentheses, mouth or nose, and arms (especially those represented by the inequality signs < or > also are often referred to as "Kirbies" in reference to their likeness to Nintendo's video game character, Kirby. The parentheses are usually dropped when used in the English language context.
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2channel style
The Japanese language is usually encoded using double-byte character codes. As a result there is a bigger variety of characters that can be used in emoticons, many of which cannot be reproduced in ASCII. Most kaomoji contain Cyrillic and other foreign letters to create even more complicated expressions analogous to ASCII art's level of complexity. To type such emoticons, the input editor that is used to type Japanese on a user's system is equipped with a dictionary of emoticons, after which the user simply types the Japanese word (or something close to it) that represents the desired emoticon to convert the input into such complicated emoticons. Such expressions are known as Shift JIS art.
Users of 2channel in particular have developed a wide variety of unique emoticons using obscure characters. Some have taken on a life of their own and become characters in their own right, like Mona.
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Basic examples
m(_ _)m bowing
(`ヘ´) annoyed
（´・ω・｀） deflated
（ ´Д｀） yelling, or panting
（　ﾟДﾟ） surprised, or loudmouthed
┐('～`；┌ don't know the answer
（´∀｀） carefree
（　´_ゝ`） indifferent
Σ(゜д゜ shocked
( ﾟ ヮﾟ happy, upbeat
(*´Д`) heavy breathing
＇へ＇凸　 flipping someone the bird
╮(─▽─╭ "who cares?"
ｷﾀ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ━━━━━━!!!!! "It's here", a general expression of excitement that something has appeared or happened.
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that is the biggest waste of someones time ...................... ever
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Jason Iles
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Paul I bet you wrote that out your self 
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if writing it myself means pressing CTRL-C, CTRL-V... then yes...
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Thats still more effort than its worth
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