Smileys are from Mars!

I love smileys!

Both the traditional ones with the yellow faces, and others that soon followed.
With the advent of msn (there named "emoticons") they have proliferated and have become delightfully animated.

I've been collecting them for a while now — I know, I know: a totally infantile pastime. I guess it nourishes part of my inner child. (I do hope that's what it is!)

What I didn't know until recently:

The First Smiley is from Mars!

Just goes to show that the War God has a lighter side... or smileys a meaner.

 The iconic Smiley

(the Earthling version!)

The Martian Ancestor

The First Picture: 1976 Viking I Mission

Originaly called "Happy Face" Crater, the Original Smiley is the Galle Crater on Mars.

Funnies

,I enjoy things that tickle my funny bone.

“The noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog;
it feeds the hand that bites it.” 

Laurence J. Peter (1919 – 90) Canadian educator and writer

Sometimes a little dark humor also.
"Light" dark...    ; ))))

I also have a collection of the ones below...
May they be called "women's exasperation", for those tether's end days?
Or when we tire of unbridled domesticity...
(and although pictured with women, due to the last 6000 years or so of training, they also apply to all who suffer the constraints of sterotyped straightjackets, which end up becoming the apparel of use whether of cloth or chemicals)(that means men, too, dearies!)

Trying to do it all

(with your happy-face ON!)

And Baby makes three

 

Men!

(for when you're particularly exasperated!!!)

(there are more from this section, but will leave to another post)

Can't leave these ones out!

And, to say goodbye...

 

Note: The images above were culled from myspace and photobucket. The images belong to their rightful owners.