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You've probably seen others use smiles before in email messages or other bulletin board posts. Smiles are keyboard characters used to convey an emotion, such as a smile or a frown .
This bulletin board automatically converts certain text to a graphical representation when it is inserted between brackets [].  Here are the smiles that are currently supported by North Bank Banter Forum:

smile [:)] big smile [:D] cool [8D] thumb up [:I] the bird [:P] evil [}:)] wink [;)] clown [:o)] square head [B)] eight ball [8] evil [ev] twisted [tw]

frown [:(] shy [8)] shocked [:O] angry [:(!] dead [xx(] thumb down [|)] sleep [:X] approve [^] disapprove [V] question [?] King [EEK]

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