I'm interested in ASCII art that can fit on a single line of text, i.e., contains no line breaks. Partly for a reason, which I'll tell you about if it ever comes to fruition, but also just out of curiosity. Here's what I've got so far. Naturally some of these will look better or worse in different fonts.

Fish: ><>
Snail: _@/
Key: O-m
Ring: O
Sunglasses: B
Sword: -|===-
Knife: +--
Heart: <3
Mug: c[_]

The venerable OXymoron Humour Archive has numerous variations on basic designs for amoebae and smileys, and even a few for elephants which I don't quite see.

Anyone know any other good ones? Or improvements on these?

(I give it half an hour, max, before someone posts the obvious parts of the human anatomy, which I know about but am not really interested in, since I can't think of any situation in which I'd want to be mistaken for a 12-year-old boy.)

okay, it's like two minutes, not a half-hour...

here's one I made up called "Richard Gere"

~@> (_*_)

@}>~~`~~~~ A rose for you, dear sir.

What are you all looking at me like that for?

Uh...

(.) (.)

The biscuit game

#:D~~[____,<==8

A man being thrown into a wood chipper:

(:-O =>[CHIPPER 2000]<.:,'.`':

I know. It sucks.

I stole these off Usenet:

Syringe: |==[)XXXX>---
Eye: <(O)>
Swimming: __/\o_
Swallow hunting a fly: . -o(=<
Snails: @/ @/ \@ "@

MY ASCII ART TEXT:   Mug: c|_|                                       Sword: ===|=====-        

Life is a lot like getting mugged; you get your kicks, you take your punches, and when it's over, someone else gets your cash.