O'REILLY ANNOUNCES WINNER OF 'BEST NEW SMILEY CONTEST'

[For some reason this does not appear to have gotten distributed on
Usenet yet, so I am posting it.  My apologies for the delay; the press
release went out April 1.  -dws]

      O'REILLY ANNOUNCES WINNER OF 'BEST NEW SMILEY CONTEST'

     O'Reilly & Associates, the people who put an armadillo on 
the cover of a system administration book, announced that Pete 
"Ender" Walsh of Falls Church, VA has been named the winner of 
the $500 prize for the best submission to "The Best New Smiley 
Contest."  His winning entry is:

                             >[:^)     
                     "Watches too much TV"

          The contest was judged by David Sanderson, compiler of 
_SMILEYS_, a collection of 650 smiley faces published by O'Reilly & 
Associates (ISBN: 1-56592-041-4; $5.95 US), and Lesley Strother, a 
designer at O'Reilly.  People submitting the best smiley not already 
found in SMILEYS by October 1, 1993 were eligible for the $500 prize.  
          In addition to naming a winner, O'Reilly will give the 20 
runners up copies of the new edition of Ed Krol's _The Whole Internet 
User's Guide & Catalog, released April 1.  The runners up entries are:

                           ::-b|d-::   
      "Person with glasses sticking out tongue at mirror"
                         Galen Johnson

                            =[8]-O
             "Spaceman Spiff preparing to land"
                          Greg Boyd

                             .!!!,
                          "Lion hand"
                         Laszlo Drotos

                            []:-{o
                  "Barbershop quartet singer"
                       Neil Sokolowski

                            <*(:-?
              "Wizard who doesn't know the answer"
                       Bruce J. Barton

                          ,,,^..^,,,
             "Cat peeking over a fence" (note claws)
                        Ina L. Mehlman

                       #:o\:o/:o\:o/:o||
                         "Totem pole"
                         Michael Maier

                           (:-O ==>
                "Rush Limbaugh" (note loud tie)
                        Heather Taylor

                            (Z(:^P
                          "Napoleon"
                         Paul Curcio

                           *-=|8-D
                           "Clown"
                        Charles Hannum

                             :-8p
         "Dizzy Gillespie" (puffed cheeks and trumpet)
                       Michael J Kahlke

                         IIIIII8^)X
                    "The Cat in the Hat"
                         N. Murray

                        `,`,`,`,`:|
                    "Mrs. Frankenstein"
                   Matthew Allen Lewis

                         `@_____
                       "Snail mail"
                       Robert Mudry

                         `\=o-o=/'
                       "Eye glasses"
                    Jose Manuel Pereira

                           oO:)&
                      "A grandmother"
                     Maureen Zapryluk

                          /\/:/\
                         "Mummy"
                      Barry Ackerman

                          ())=(
                      "Wine glass"
                      Bonnie Petry

                          #!^~/
"'Kissy' profile: hair (a la Archie Andrews), shades, nose, smooch, chin"
                   Alan L. Chamberlain

                      <0__/\__/\_
                        "Worm"
                   Martin Frischherz


--
DaviD W. Sanderson (dw...@ora.com)

	"The Noah Webster of smileys is David Sanderson"
		- The Wall Street Journal, 15 Sep 1992

In article <2rrhvr$kb...@spool.cs.wisc.edu> dw...@ora.com writes:


] 
]       O'REILLY ANNOUNCES WINNER OF 'BEST NEW SMILEY CONTEST'
] 

Hm... maybe I should have submitted my one:

                         <==3:-P     Dickhead
			 
It may not be of the artistic quality of the others, but I'm
willing to bet it would get more use :) (oops)

Lance.

-- 
Sir Lancelot of Avalon. Knight of the Internet. Will tilt windmills for food