Apparently, Yahoo! would like you to be more effusive in your online interaction:
These emoticons are actually super-secret bonus emoticons - just in case you weren't able to express a suitably wide range of emotions with the fifty-odd emoticons that are already available to the Yahoo! chat community. You know, for all of those times when nothing really says "I'm sorry" like an animated chicken.
Now, I realize that it is VERY EXCITING to be able to insert moving pictures into our chat windows, but please: don't. It's bad enough that we have, like, as a culture decided that we can justify any asshole comment we want by following it up with a semi-colon and a parenthesis, but if I start seeing yin yangs in work emails, I'm going to have to pull a Dark Phoenix and just, really, obliterate the planet.
Here's an idea: use WORDS. After all, we've spent enough time coming up with them. And, hey, who knows, you might even like them.
However, on the plus side, this does mean that I'll finally be able to finish my chat-based adaptations of great literary and cinematic moments.
Like Hamlet's soliloquy.
Hamlet: 
Or Marlon Brando's speech in On the Waterfront.
Charlie: 
Terry: 
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Terry: 
Or the final, explosive confrontation in Brokeback Mountain.
Ennis: 
Jack: 
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At 58th and 9th:
"We're going to be making two stops in Brooklyn. The first one is in Brooklyn Heights - take the first exit off the Brooklyn Bridge."
"The Brooklyn Bridge?"
"Yes, the Brooklyn Bridge."
"But that is downtown."
"Yes. As is the way to Brooklyn."
"Oh, fine, I guess."
At 49th and 2nd:
"Sir? It would be pretty awesome if we could stop a bit more gradually next time. We would really like not to be thrown against the partition again."
At Bowery and Houston:
"Look, mister, unless you'd like a cab full of sick, I'd really suggest not slamming on the brakes every twenty seconds. You have two very drunk people back here who are not doing particularly well. You would have three, but I have been sobered up by fear."
"What's that? You want to get out here?"
On the Manhattan Bridge:
"Just for future reference, you do realize that this is not the Brooklyn Bridge, right?"
On the corner of Henry and Pineapple:
"Okay, so just hop back on the BQE westbound and go to the Prospect Expressway."
"You didn't tell me we were going to Prospect."
"I did say two stops in Brooklyn."
"But you didn't say Prospect."
"It's less than ten minutes away."
"I don't know ... "
"What do you mean you don't know?"
"I don't know if I can go all the way out there."
"I'm not asking you to take me to Jersey. I'm asking you to take me to Park Slope."
"That's a long way."
"Do you even know where it is? Do you actually know where we are now? Because it's three in the morning and there is no traffic so it is really, really only going to take us ten minutes."
"Well ... "
"Well what? I'm already in your cab. You have to take me."
At Henry and Clark:
"I really don't think that your horn is going to make the light turn green any faster."
At Henry and Clark, five seconds later:
"Running the red light, though, that's a great idea."
On the BQE:
"Where is this Prospect Expressway? It has been ten minutes."
"It's been five minutes, and that's only because you stopped on Cadman Plaza West to yell at that homeless man."
On 11th Ave:
"So go straight through the next light."
"Straight? Okay."
"Why are you turning? I said straight."
"Straight? Right."
"No, not right - STRAIGHT. As in do not turn, as in continue in our current direction."
"I hear you - I'm going straight."
"Then how are we suddenly facing east?"
At Bartel Pritchard Square:
"Keep the change."
"Thank you, that's very nice of you."
"Well it's not because I'm pleased. It's because I compensate for being a bad person by overtipping. You, sir, are the worst fucking driver I have ever had. Do the world a favor: find another job. Good night."
"But wait, wait, miss!"
"Oh, for Christ's sake. What?"
"Can you tell me how to get back to Manhattan?"
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