It just struck me that we need emoticons. So often I find myself typing `;)` and then wondering how to format it so it looks right. In the edit box, it looks fine, and I guess the backstrophe has been perfected so it looks right. But still the basic emoticons would be nice. And can't we have something creative, StackOverflow-ish, instead of the standard ones that we see in forums? I really like the ones Skype uses. A few that we should have are `:)`, `;)`,`:/`, `:(`, `:O`, plus a few others I probably missed. 

Oh, and no emoticons in code blocks.