A whole new world

A few months back I was chatting to a friend online, when she made a typo: instead of typing
:-)
she typed
::-)

I pointed out that it looked as if she was smiling with her glasses on her forehead. Little did I know that this would go on to make me think a lot and open up new avenues for me in my idle time.

I had always wanted to make a list of these: now that my brain is too clogged up with stuff and is hence too tired to do anything really fruitful I suppose I should churn these out. No, wait a moment, I've been suffering from a blogger's block (doesn't that sound a whole lot cooler?)!

This list is dedicated to all those who would love to combine the simplicities of Google Talk to this whole new world:
Real characters:
\:-|       Bhagat Singh
:-|        Suniel Shetty
B-|        Chris Gayle 
99.94      Don Bradman
:-(|       Ashutosh Mukherjee 
3j (* +    Sachin Tendulkar
<:-|       C V Raman 
@8-<)      Manmohan Singh 
:-<<       Merv Hughes 
8-P        Daniel Vettori
:-P        Brad Hogg
c|:-(|     Charlie Chaplin 
c|B-|      Darryl Harper 
S:-D       Shashi Kapoor
||:-O      S Sreesanth
3:--|      Julius Caesar 
c|:-A      Geoffrey Boycott

Mythology:
c)-:-)S    Shiva
:~         Ganesh
@S:-)X     Medusa
-o-[E]     Cyclops
]C:-<      Mahishasur
<->-)      Durga at Maddox Square/Baghbazar
(-:-)      Durga elsewhere
?-:-P      Kali
3| -<|     Dhritarashtra
||-)       Gandhari
::: .      Shakuni and Yudhishthir
-O O-      Bhim and Duryodhan
<}-> <-{>  Arjun and Karna
*. *. *. .. ..
           Draupadi's five sons with their fathers
>c|b-<     Odin 
: O (      Shurpanakha


Other fiction:
~:-o       Tintin
$:-))      Uncle Scrooge
#:-D       Archie Andrews
3:-D       Jughead Jones
`8-)       Harry Potter
:  |       Lord Voldemort
}B-)       Batman
B-         Spiderman
~8-D       Aladdin's Genie
<B-<>=     Albus Dumbledore 
C|>)       Shikari Sambhu
3|:-<]     King Lear 
c|:-)      Cornelius Fudge 
c|:-|u     Sherlock Holmes
c|:-}|     Hercule Poirot

Movies:
7:-)       Amrish Puri in Damini
:O>        Hamm in Toy Story

Objects:
+{|        Chess King
3|         Chess Queen

Concepts:
? -|| *    Communist Party of India (Marxist)
||:-|      Iyer
=:-|       Iyengar
~[:-D      graduate student 
b-D        pirate 
<:-9       kid at a birthday party

Commercials:
23         Complan
C  (  |  ) VLCC
~  ===     Viagra
o>-<  zzz  Valium
||  DD     Silicone implant
|}  <}->   Hamdard ka tonic Cinkara

Notices:
:=X        Danger, 440 Volts

Fauna: 
:-8        tiger
}: >       moose
): >       sambar
]: >       elk
>: >       antelope
]: >====== giraffe
:[E]       hippopotamus
>: 0       cow
:o<        walrus
W  o       crocodile
<O         pigeon
cO         duck
=O         platypus
--O        heron
----O"     hoopoe
>O         crow
-O"        rooster

... and I shall keep appending, as and when I think of new ones.