Well, I've noticed many people in a number of threads and various forums have noticed the "emoticans" haven't worked for a long time BUT they do work if you know the key: Here it is:
I'll post the image first which when you want to use it begins with a colon and then the key words which is then followed by another colon with no spaces between the colon and other characters ~ ready? Write this down or print it off....
BTW, there are no spaces between the first or last colon and the key words when you are actually doing this but it wouldn't work if I didn't do the spaces to tell you the system!