Those smiley-face laden messages are now all over Gawker and other sites.

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But even the odious smiley-face has respectable in-laws.

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Pictures of the sign - which ends with a smiley face - have been widely circulated on social media, with many commentators congratulating the library on its stance.

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Certain idiotic-sounding behaviors that create a bond: drawing a smiley face on a check, doling out after-dinner candy, wearing a funny necktie or forecasting good weather.

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They gave workers a five-euro note, folded into the origami version of a little shirt, plus a two-euro coin painted with a smiley face.

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With the powerful high-tech communications tool known as a smiley face.

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