The Sunshine of your Smilies!

Smilies are cute little characters that you create with the keys on your keyboard as you are writing your e-mail. There are lots and lots of smilies, and they're just for fun. To look at the ones that follow, you have to rest your head on your left shoulder (no, not your right shoulder, your left shoulder!).

Read about the history of smilies

The most common smilies are the happy face:

:-)

and the winking happy face:

;-)

Here is a small sampling of some other smilies you can use

Confused? Getting a stiff neck?

For those of you who are just normal folks like me--with stiff necks!--scroll down to see an "interpreted" and "reoriented" version of the smilies

Here's a more complete list of smilies

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