Emoticons Make Things Better

I thought the rationale behind my blog title was obvious.  I really did.  Instead, I will have to spell it out for you.  Emoticon are awesome, time saving,  feeling explainers that are really super important for the advanced writer, just like grammar and spelling. 

Sometimes, words can't explain the way you feel and it is hard to express yourself.  Fortunately, I included 16 emoticons that I have found most useful when communicating with society as a professional writer/communicator. 

;-)    =  "I can make any situation less awkward.  See. 'You are fired. Take care! ;-)'"


B-)   = "I wear sunglasses inside, at night, in dimly lit establishments, to make it clear that I am a douchebag.  Really, I'm doing you a favor, so stop HATIN."


:(&)   = "I eat with my mouth open, NOM NOM NOM. Cheesy Puffs!"


|:-(     = "I am not happy with my unibrow."


>.<    = "I can't stop eating warheads even though my gums have shriveled up and I think I contracted acid-tongue-disease.  I need MORE WARHEADS!  Warheads taste like puke! Yay!"


O=;)  = "I am Benjamin Rotstein.  I am super successful top chef.  I make a mean double whopper.  Come visit me at the 24 hour drive-through window.  I will be wearing my paper hat."


!,!      = "Hi.  I am a Bunny!  No, I'm not a rabbit.  I am a bunny, bunny, BUNNY, I SAID BUNNY!"


( . ) ( . )     =  "I have big boobs."


( . Y . )     = "I have even bigger boobs.  I win!"


 ( Y )        = "I have no clue what you are Twitter.  You make me seem like an unproductive member of cyber-net-society and that makes me mad.  I meant to look you up for so long, see what the brouhaha is all about, but I have better things to do like draw in my blogs and make spaghetti and debate whether or not to shower today.  You make no sense to me, so take a look at that.  Butt!"


8==D     =  "I am Penisface!" or "Just want to be clear, my penis is this big, I hope this is not a deal breaker, tata."


._^    = "My only hit was Sloth.  You know, the Goonies? Uch.."


J:-|    = "I am not amused with this haircut that resembles a flock of seagulls flying out my head.  So STOP LAUGHING like an asshole."


~;-)   = "Harry Potter here.  Cheerio. Colour Favourite Flavour OU OU OU."


:-Q   = "Drool."


8@)  = "Oink oink, I am a pig." or "I am sticking my dirty face up against your expensive car window."


:( | )   = "Monkeyface!"


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Dr. Gynecologist

I sat completely naked, aside from a thin pink tissue-paper gown, as I waited for the (This is for girls only, boys to be redirected HERE) Gynecologist to come in for my semi-annual check-up.  He asked me if I felt okay.  I was sweating profusely.  Then he took my heart rate and apologized, "Now I know why you are sweating, I'm sorry I make you nervous, I know you hate this."  That did not help.  I felt the temperature in my cheeks increase a few degrees.  It is an icebox in here.  Stop sweating!

Dr. Gynecologist tries to make conversation while my heels are up on stirrups and he throbs my insides with medical objects.  

Doctor: So how is law school?  My daughter, you remember, she is at Cornell Med School, with extra elite honors for brilliant people only, and studying to become a super successful Doctor.  She would become a doctor-lawyer-CPA hybrid if the school would only allow her, but they insist she focus on medicine only because she is just bound to cure cancer.  She also won a Nobel Peace Prize. 

Me: Actually, I deferred Wash U this year.  

Doctor: (Probe, probe) Oh, and what are you doing instead? 

KABOOM POW POW

Snap.  Brain circuits disconnected due to awkward situation overload.  Convulsion.  Eyes rolling back.  

(At the moment I am not sure where I am going with this post.  Instead of continuing here, I will change the subject completely.  Consider this an intermission and feel free to get a refreshment or use the restroom at this time. Enjoy!)

I came home and decided to illustrate why I am angry with my Gynecologist.  

Me: Mom Mom MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM.

 

Mom: What!

Me: Look at my new drawing! (Waiting for my mom to explode with laughter and drool on herself in pride for her artistically talented offspring) MOM why aren't your laughing?

Mom: Tali, it's a little gross.
 

Me: It's not gross, it's funny! It's Dr. Sherwin!

Mom: I don't visualize Dr. Sherwin like that and it just paints a really graphic picture in my head. Maybe you should take it down.

Me: Mom! You're not supposed to think about the image literally, it is just supposed to make you smile, like a joke. Obviously Dr. Sherwin doesn't hold up medical cervix tools to show me.

Mom: I don't get it. You use such beautiful images for some posts, maybe you can reuse one of those.

Me: (super aggravated) Mom, everyone goes to the Gynecologist. This is not porn!

Mom: Well maybe you could change the comic into future tense, "I will put this in your cervix." Then it wouldn't be so visually disturbing.

Me: (exploding into a million pieces out of maximum aggravation caused by mother that does not understand brilliantly humorous artwork and offers a bazillion less funny suggestions involving the English tenses.)

Mom: Because future tense implies that he is holding something sterile, but it is written in past tense. I don't want readers thinking about your down-there part, or about what just came out of it.

Me: Oh. I did not see it that way.

The End 

 

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The Day My Parents Created a Mini-Monster

This is not a direct quote.  This is also not a laughing matter.  This is a very serious post.  If you can't handle that, please see THIS or THIS or THIS.

If you have experienced the above, I encourage you to visit the best blog for Adult Children of Divorce.  I say it is the best because it is objectively the most amazing and intelligent resource in existence about the topic, and not because I wrote it.  It is super serious and not funny, unless you enjoy laughing at the misery of others. 
 


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