[:|] submitter is a robot (or other appropriate AI project)
:>) submitter has a big nose
:<| submitter attends an Ivy League school
:%)% submitter has acne
=:-) submitter is a hosehead
:-(*) submitter is getting sick of most recent netnews articles and
is about to vomit
:-)8 submitter is well dressed
8:-) submitter is a little girl
:-)-{8 submitter is a big girl
%-) submitter is cross-eyed
#-) submitter partied all night
:-* submitter just ate a sour pickle
-:-) submitter sports a mohawk and admires Mr. T
:-'| submitter has a cold
:-)' submitter tends to drool
':-) submitter accidentally shaved off one of his eyebrows this morning
8:] submitter is a gorilla
0-) submitter wearing scuba mask
P-) person submitting is getting fresh
|-) submitter is falling asleep
.-) submitter has one eye
:=) submitter has two noses
:-D submitter talks too much
:-o submitter is shocked
$-) Submitter is a yuppie
{{-}}} Submitter is a refugee from the '60's
:V) Submitter is a woodpecker
O-) Submitter is a cyclops
:-# Submitter has been punched in the mouth
*-) Submitter was shot for the last posting
(the flames are getting _serious_)
:-))) Submitter is William Conrad
R-) Submitter has broken glasses
:-7 Submitter talks out of side of mouth
%') Submitter just finished a fifth of lunch
/\/\,8-O Submitter really should fix frayed line cord on terminal
<:-) Submitter is a Vietnamese peasant (unlikely)
|:-| Submitter is excessively rigid
._) Submitter suffers from Lorentz contraction
(they're coming every ten minutes now)
6\/) The Elephant Submitter
.
. ) Submitter is Marty Feldman
and last, and possibly least,
) Submitter is the Cheshire cat.
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