Today is the 20th birthday of the smiley face emoticon :-). For 20 years Smiley has given me the purposeful ambiguity I've needed for meaningful online conversations:

Me: Want to go out with me? :-)
[insert name of girl here]: No way! I can't believe you asked me out!
Me: Oh, I was just kidding, didn't you see the smiley face?
[insert name of girl here]: Oh, I thought you were serious for a second there. lol.

So Happy Birthday :-), hopefully I won't need you around for 20 more.