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These are the emoticons that are the most widely used. If you use them in your e-mails the person you send it to will probably understand you. The first three (smiley, sad, winky) are the most common of all emoticons.

:-)    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

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

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