[NewMonarch]

It's hard to say. To be fair, YC never met the rest of my cofounders. I was the only one they'd ever spoken with.

- Jon (The guy who wrote this story. :)

[shasta]

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[Johngibb]

Kind of off topic, but today's XKCD is super relevant here: http://xkcd.com/859/

[NewMonarch]

The smiley face/close parenthesis move is completely valid. (Otherwise you get double lips. :))

[alanfalcon]

Actually, then it's time to get all fancy (that's right, I'm talking Reverse-Smiley! (-: )

But then it's like he's bald.

[evandijk70]

xkcd has something to say about that too

http://xkcd.com/541/

[elai]

(I just put a space :) )

[chalst]

How about using a "D"? E.g., "(The guy who wrote this story. :-D)"

[newman314]

Does this count for most points awarded for least number of characters?