This reminds me of a Barks quote (Re: SV: Smileys)

[Daniel van Eijmeren]

SIGVALD GR?SFJELD TO HARRY FLUKS, 23-05-2003

About Sigvald often ending his emails with a smiley:

>> And this is *not* the place where people
>> usually put a smiley. To most people it
>> means "this mail is a joke" or "Sigvald is
>> a joke".

> Well, you see, I use it in order to show that the mail is intended 
> to be read as a friendly one - as you know my mails are sometimes 
> seen as offensive even thoug that was not my initial intention.
>
> Sigvald :-)

"Glory be! Then it's okay to whale the blazes out of 'em - 
if I do it with a SMILE!"


--- Daniël

(The quote is from a Barks story. Which one?)