Jane Austen improved

As Neal Stephenson pointed out, the standard excuse for using emoticons is to convey the "tone of voice" which may be missing from mere written words. Let's try to improve a famous passage by adding a conversational cue by smiley:

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife ;-).

I think we can all agree that the passage is a lot easier to understand now, isn't it? :-P (that, by the way, is meta-irony, or somthing of the sort).