...for a highly down-to-earth, unpoetic, frustrated rant:

I am so stinkin' annoyed at the fact that everytime I happen to put a quotation mark ["] next to a closed parenthesis [)], it automatically gives me a winkie-face.  I do not want a winkie-face when I am quoting something serious as a parenthetical aside!

*whew*

Thank you.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled deep and ponderous poetic-musings...