oh clawton, those are smileys - ;-D is winking with tongue sticking out, ;) is a normal wink, :D is a big big smile/sticking toungue out but to be honest I'm not quite sure what the last one is either lol and maybe other cuties have other versions too! flower for you

The last one is BIG eyed smile!;)

:-P I'm sticking my tongue out to you Clawton! xoxo

Thanks for asking the question clawton! I too did not know what they meant. All I know is that :) means smiling.

My goodness::: I to an lost in the generation gap. Can't read either what was that :H for my goodness can"t even see to make it right. guess I'll go to be tomorrows another day .Flowers to all

Wow, thank you ladies. You make this 45 yr old feel mighty mighty young here. Although, I had not seen the :H b4 TY *4U all

{-0 =Perplexed... :-0 =OH! My Goodness!....
:-}} =Huge Smile.... :-{ =On the verge of tears.. note they are not the normal parenthesis but the other, squiggly, bracket whose name i have long forgotten. roses, Meganne

Hehehe! You got it - now! *4U

ok they come from MSN they are called emoticons we use them as shortcuts in chatrooms or on msn messenger to show a little picture or of a face the ;-D or :d = an open mouthed smiley face...:-) or :)= a closed mouthed smiley face the =D i have no idea anyway take a look at http://www.msn.uk/resourse/emoticons.aspx they have most of them there there are a few others that are not listed anyway hope this helps.:-) * 4 u

Clawton, yep, generation gap. I'm tooo old to read sideways, and too much of a typist to bother messing about with all that 'shift key' and thinking! I still type 90 wpm and it's so much easier just to type out words! And yes, I know the modern term is 'keyboarder' or some such, but when you learned on an old Remington manual typewriter, you really do remain a 'typist' all your life, hee hee hee!!!! LOL is about the only 'shortcut thingy' I 'get' and use. But bless all you ladies that can catch up with this new stuff, and more power to you!! Luv you all. Marji