Emoticons Mystery Cache

A smiley, or happy face (/), is a stylized representation of a smiling or frowning human face, commonly represented as a yellow (many other colors are also used) circle (or sphere) with two black dots representing eyes and a black half circle representing the mouth. “Smiley” is also sometimes used as a generic term for any emoticon.

Harvey Ball designed the first Smiley face, while working at State Mutual Life Assurance Company as a freelance artist. However, the first smiley face recorded on film can be seen being drawn in Ingmar Bergman's film "Hamnstad", released in 1948. The film is a drama about a depressed and suicidal young woman named Berit, in one scene she draws an unhappy face on the bathroom mirror using her lipstick.

The graphic was popularized in the early 1970s by Bernard and Murray Spain, who seized upon it in a campaign to sell novelty items. The two produced buttons as well as coffee mugs, t-shirts, bumper stickers and many other items emblazoned with the symbol and the phrase "Have a happy day" (devised by Gyula Bogar). In the UK, the smiley is associated with psychedelic culture since Ubi Dwyer and the Windsor Free Festival in the 1970s and the acid house dance music culture that emerged during the second summer of love in the late 1980s. The face was used as an engraved logo on ecstasy tablets at the time. The association was cemented when the band Bomb The Bass used an extracted smiley from Watchmen on the centre of its Beat Dis hit single.

In 1998, Harvey Ball formed World Smile Corporation and began licensing the smiley face to fund his undiscovered charitable causes. Profits are distributed to charities through the Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation, which also sponsors the annual World Smile Day Ball started in 1999 to encourage "acts of kindness.

In 2006 Wal-Mart, which prominently featured a smiley in its "Rolling Back Prices" campaign, sought to trademark the smiley face in the United States, coming into legal conflict with Loufrani and Smiley World over the matter. In 2008 Wal-mart began to phase out the smiley face on its vests and its website. During a trademark infringement case against an online parodist, Wal-Mart again tried to claim it held the trademark rights to the yellow smiley face. In March 2008, Wal-Mart lost the case and the judge stated in his decision that Wal-Mart did not own rights to the smiley face. In 2008, the Russian entrepeneur Oleg Teterin, president of the mobile phone company Superfone, claimed a trademark for the emoticon smiley that included ownership of ;-) and closely related smileys. He says he does not intend to go after individual users, but rather intends for companies who plan to use the emoticons to pay him royalties. In 2009 Loufrani lost his case in the EU when he tried to register the right half of the Smiley-mouth as a separate trademark.

Geocaching.com automatically converts certain text in the logs to a graphical representation when it is inserted between brackets [],  such as :-) for a smile or :-( for a frown . If you want to express a even happier feeling you might like a face like this just write :-D. And when you are greatly pissed off why not this one written as V.

If slightly embarrased and shy writing 8) för is good. Really cool people that take a lot of FTFs like this cool dude written as 8D. Those that admitt that they are poor box searchers dare to write :I to show that they are blushing or just have been while looking.

Smilies less common in GC usage is and . Some cachers like to feel very when creating mysteries. But of course not us. We'd like you to of our hides.

Happy Hunting. Do we need to say that the published coordinates are fake ?

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