Re: Contest: Win $5 for the best ASCII smile face!

Find your own at: the smileys! server

 http://www.atcom.co.at/atcom/smileys.htm
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A smiley :-) is a Happy Face on its side, an ironic twist that turns "Have a nice Day"
     into "Just Joking".

     Smileys are sideways because they are made up of characters typed on a computer
     keyboard. They offer sideways expression of some basic emotions that color and
     clarify a conversion via electronic mail (e-mail) and other forms of communication 
using
     computers.

     Smileys have caught the fancy of many clever, creative ( and obviously idle :-))
     computer types who have expanded the expressive power of smileys to include
     concepts, activities, animals, caricatures of famous people, and other thingeys.

     David Sanderson has been called the "Noah Webster of Smileys" by the Wall Street
     Journal. His full collection of over 650 smileys, compiled over the years from 
e-mail
     messages and news postings, is on display in the reference section. Throughout are
     examples of how smileys are really used in typical e-mail conversations. This book 
also
     advances the state-of-the-art of smileys, including such innovations as Smiley 
Comics
     and Where's Smiley?

     Are smileys the creative expression of the high-tech culture? Or are they an 
aberration
     that reduces human writing to a soulless shorthand of silly symbols? Who really 
cares?
     ;-)

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