Like A Teapot

It's amazing how quickly seemingly inocuous conversation can spiral into some dark thing that you didn't see coming. Lack of body language and prosody means that we miss a lot of meaning that is present when we speak face to face. Usually, because we know what we meant when we sent the message, we don't sense the concern, anger,sadness, or whatever emotion is caused by the misconnection. Things escalate very quickly, in this manner. Smileys are irritating, but they signal humor, sarcasm, etc., making miscommunication less likely.

I hope you straightened out whatever miscommunication transpired.

I despise simileys so much that I even mispelled the word? Or is it you making a rare typo there? Holy shit, I wasn't sure about the spelling but didn't and don't even bother to check.

You mispelled it (the second time) more badly than I did, if I did, and I confess that I've never looked either. Maybe both spellings are acceptable? As acceptable as an unacceptable tool can be, that is.

According to our host who provides these things, I spelled correctly the first time.
The second time I was trying to copy your version, thinking you must have got the right one, but end up being worse.

Good to spell it, but better to sell it, when you're swearing like someone godless. Mmmm, godless.

You can rhyme, eh? You sure make godless sound delicious.

It's way yummy yummy in my atheistic tummy.

Google returns 137 million hits for "smilies" and 41.5 million for "smileys." I guess both are acceptable (from a descriptivist's point of view), but your spelling is certainly more popular.

Sounds good. I must admit, I haven't taken the plunge yet.

I use them all the time.
I know they're tacky, but I love those little yellow bastards. Look! He's so saucy. And yellow.

PS. I hope that if there were any misunderstandings, they were cleared up nice and neat.

Chillax and have a or two, but not too many 's or you'll end up and that simply won't leave you feeling at all.

Thank you, dear revolutionary comrades! You rock!

there is a whole other history behind the electronic simile of "smile" by the original artist. there are also arguments as to whom the original artist is. i've got that trivia in my databank, it is just hidden this morning, sorry. wal-mart made the yellow-faced smile into a trademark years ago. and someone with a brain fart poduced the electronic smiles and emotions that were then labeled as smilies by the author. i don't like it much, but sometimes my words are not enough to convey what and how i'm writing what i mean to say . . . so i too have fallen under the curse or using the "smile."