Emoticons: the art of expressing your emotions with just a couple of punctuation marks. Most people think this ingenious invention arrived in the same era as the Spice Girls and Hammer Time. But they're wrong. In fact, emoticons date back as far as the Stone Age. In this video Professor Karen Lockjaw, Chair of Emoticons at the University of Shepherds Bush, shows us where we can find emoticons scattered throughout history.
20th March 2012
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OMG that Thomas Hardy is so Reem. That Tess "of the" Durbervilles...
Tess runs into a bloke what took advantage of her in a dodgy...
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Sage advice for pop stars....Not.
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Must-have accessory.
Top Gun spoof.
Fanny.
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Matt Williams23rd June 2011 - 12:49
To quote David Mitchell - LOL!
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finkle23rd June 2011 - 11:10
Brilliant! More, more more!
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