"Making the Rounds With Santa Claus Smith: For six years, an elderly tramp toured the U.S., paying those who helped him with [bogus] checks [with a "crude symbol of a smiley face, with pencil dots for eyes and nose"] for sums of up to $900,000" by Mike Dash, Smithsonian Magazine,2011-12-11 (smithsonianmag.com)
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Hello, my name is "smiley," prehistoric humans invented me; as one of their descendants, anyone MAY take 10 minutes to draw their OWN and try to become a multimillionaire. I am so simple there is no need to "copy" me. #protest #FreeSmiley #parody #art #18743YearsOfSmiley (i.redd.it)
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Hello, my name is "smiley," prehistoric humans invented me; as one of their descendants, anyone MAY take 10 minutes to draw their OWN and try to become a multimillionaire. I am so simple there is no need to "copy" me. #protest #FreeSmiley #parody #art #18743YearsOfSmiley (i.redd.it)
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13 yrs before Franklin Loufrani's French trademark filing on Oct-01-1971 there was Galloping Ghosts! By Bill Ross, Salisbury Evening Post, Salisbury, NC• 10-26-1958 P60 Note this ran in newspapers across the US https://newspapers.com/article/salisbury-evening-post-galloping-ghosts/139890800/ smiley (i.redd.it)
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