Sorry for barging in on your private conversation, but I couldn't help overhearing Strider saying about not knowing how to use smilies.
Below are some basic ones; you can also insert elaborate ones with the [img src=] command; there is a thread on this board from a few days ago with a LOT of them.
: + ) =
; + ) =
: + ( =
: + D =
8 + ) =
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