smiley faces
 

I keep seeing these little yellow smiley faces on some replies and postings......where do you get them from??
They're fun !

I think that they appear when you type their equivalents...

let me try :)

Yes! It worked!

Colon and closing parentheses :)
:P
:o

:D Colon + D
:P Colon + capital P
:( Colon + opening parentheses
;) Semi-colon + closing parentheses

What do I have to do?? Not being very good on a computer, what does "type their equivalents" mean???

:-)

Cool!

I Can't do it !!!!!!!!!

Nettie, you won't see the emoticons show up until you either click to "preview" your post, or just click to post the reply. Give it a try...
:)

Well, thanks for your help everyone, but still can't do it !! If I press Colon . and a capital P , that is exactly what I get .P ! What am I doing wrong? Getting frustrated ! Is it because I am english !!!??? When I click to preview I just see .P AAHHHHHHHH !!! HELP

:D

Ugh, I am disgusted with myself! I used to travel, and now I'm doing that!

Nettie,
are you sure you are typing a colon : ?
It would be- : ) -together makes :)

you are typing a period . not a colon :

Thanks ChazBubbles.......That was no help at all ! I'm getting jealous of all of you who can do this. Can't someone please talk me through this ??

The only way I can talk you through it any more is to come over there and do it with you!!
So, where are you? :)

Sorry Scarlett, so excited by all this !! How sad is that !! I'm in the UK in Surrey,very pretty and rural.:)

Nettie are you writing a sentence with punctuation ending it? I have found that the winking smiley appears after I've put a period at the end of a sentence and then hit the semi colon and the closed parenthesis. ;)

Yay! Nettie you did it!

Now Try it with a colon, which is this : and a frown which is this (

put them together and see if we get anything :(

:D

When you type it, you won't see the change, until you click on preview or post...

:/

had to jump in to try it :P , no wonder the Internet is taken away at some offices! It does work!

Oh, Nettie, not you too! Lost among the emoticons! I'm taking the cure by ripping out all colons, semis, et al from my keyboard. Drastic, to be sure, but I'm desperate. Otherwise I might start speaking and thinking in emoticon.

Look everyone !!! :D :P ;) and ChazBubbles...you keep coming back here !!
Thanks all !! what great people you are!
:))

Well, maybe just one - :$. Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww, what a thrill.

Nettie, I'm glad you got it! :P Was just about to nip around the old M25 from Kent to help you out there! :)

:(d)

.((d))

Nettie! :0
My friends live in Kew around the corner from the entrance to the Gardens:)
I would love to hurry on over there ... problem is, I am in NYC:)
oh well, maybe soon~

I see that NYC turns into a Football head??? and :0 means nothing...keep trying! colon zero = nothing, colon O=
:O

then there is **==

Scarlett....we are not toooooo far from Kew Gardens, but my family and I are coming to NY in Aug ! ::)

Thanks for the offer EnglishOne! M25 prob. OK at this time of night !

Cool:D

Just testing...

:O :*

Thank you fodors :*

:S That one is the colon and an S

Okay, no more. Promise. I'm outta here.


:B