I hate emoticons or smileys or whatever you want to call those annoying bits of punctuation used by people who can't write to indicate that what they have just said is meant to be :-) funny. I refuse :-( to use them*. So you'll understand why this cartoon in yesterday's Observer cracked me up:


* (Lying in bed and texting a big smiley to your boyfriend's mobile while he's cooking you breakfast doesn't count, OK?)