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Expression of the Day

Genuine or Social Smile?

UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - AUGUST 08: Actress Ashley Greene arrives at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre on August 8, 2010 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

August 8: Ashley Greene arrives at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards

Expression of the Day

Simone Ruffini of Italy sticks out his tongue as he poses with his bronze medal following the men's 5 km open water race at the European Swimming Championships in Lake Balaton in Balatonfured August 5, 2010. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (HUNGARY - Tags: SPORT SWIMMING)

Italian Simone Ruffini poses with his bronze medal
after the men’s 5 km water race in Lake Balaton in Balatonfured
August 5, 2010.

I don’t think you need to speak Italian to know what he is thinking here, do you?

Expression of the Day: Sadness

Relatives and friends carry coffins of the victims of a coal mine explosion during a collective funeral in Amaga June 18, 2010. Colombian rescuers struggled against gas and debris to reach more than 50 miners still trapped and feared dead on Friday after a blast tore through a coal mine in the country's worst mining disaster. REUTERS/Fredy Amariles (COLOMBIA - Tags: DISASTER)

Relatives of one of the victims of a coal mine explosion cry at an improvised morgue in Amaga, Antioquia province June 17, 2010. More than 70 Colombian miners were trapped and feared dead on Thursday in an overnight coal mine explosion that killed at least 16 miners in what could be one of the country's worst mining accidents. REUTERS/Fredy Amariles   (COLOMBIA - Tags: DISASTER)

Family and friends deal with the aftermath of a coal mine explosion in Colombia, South America. In the lower photo, they are viewing bodies at a make-shift morgue (June 2010).

A Genuine Smile

Here is a nice genuine smile by HSBC Group Chairman Stephen Green in Hong Kong today. He has a friendly face. I bet he smiles a lot. Do you see the warmth exuded from the eyes?

HSBC Group Chairman Stephen Green attends a news conference to announce the lender's 2010 interim results in Hong Kong August 2, 2010. HSBC's half-year profit more than doubled from a year ago as bad debts fell sharply, and Europe's biggest bank said it remained bullish on the outlook for emerging markets.  REUTERS/Bobby Yip  (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS HEADSHOT)

Expression of the Day

Edward L. Warner III, Secretary of Defense Representative to Post-START Negotiations, waits to testify at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the new START (Strategic Arms Reduction) Treaty on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 29, 2010. UPI/Alexis C. Glenn Photo via Newscom
Dr. Edward L. Warner III, waiting to testify at a Senate Armed
Services Committee hearing yesterday on the new START
(Strategic Arms Reduction) Treaty.

Here is a man who is serious and intent in getting his message across, do you think? Either that, or he has a dislike for cameras pointed at him. This expression is similar to the expression made by Melky Cabrera on Wednesday (though it has less tension and isn’t quite as threatening). We see glaring in the eyes, and a pursed lips. You know the old saying, “If looks could kill…”

If you see someone make this expression to you in public, they are giving you a strong message to back off, and I would heed their facial warning, without question. This is not a friendly face.