Emotionless emoticons

Did you ever run across an emoticon that left you scratching your head?

Wikipedia has a catalog of emoticons that go well beyond the simple smiley face.  My favorite:

<°))><

It means "fish," although it takes a little bit of straining to associate an emotion with a menu item, especially since it contains more characters than the word. But someone must have done it.

That link comes via AlexDavies.net where he features interesting word clouds mined from tweeted emoticons.

For a much larger collection, see pi's smiley list which contains faces such as:

=:-)  Smiley is a punk rocker; however
=:-(   Real punk rockers don't smile.
}:-(   Toupee in an updraft; and
$-)  Yuppie/Just Won A Large Sum Of Money.

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be one for "you just wasted a bunch of time."

Comments

[Becky]

This info is the cat's pjmaaas!