World Emoji Day gets weird and wild on Twitter

When it comes to imaginary vacations, World Emoji Day is a fabulous excuse to celebrate. The ubiquitous illustrations we use to convey feelings like happiness, anger and love for donuts are now taking over on Twitter, one smiley at a time.

The US Army wishes everyone a happy World Emoji Day a hill with grimacing yellow faces instead of their real ones.

NASA amused itself by offering an emoji puzzle, using the symbols to describe all the planets of the solar system in order.

Iconic Blue Muppet Cookie Monster has expressed his love for his favorite emoji: the cookie, unsurprisingly. "For @MeCookieMonster, there's only one emoji that really matters," Sesame Street writes.

Some people have been creative in building images and words from emojis. Dolly Parton's official Twitter account shared a combination of musical notes, hearts and butterflies that formed a big red heart with "Dolly" in the center.

Puerto Rico has returned its flag using round emojis and a single star emoji.

Fans of the TV series Lost can recall the show by reviewing the entire Story told by emojis @TheLOSTFans Twitter account. No, it does not make the end clearer.

The Waffle House breakfast restaurant chain uses World Emoji Day as a platform to lobby for a waffle emoji. He began with a sad reading tweet "Wish we could celebrate #WorldEmojiDay …. #wheresthewaffleemoji" and escalated to a large-scale pleading.

As part of a longer message, Waffle House wrote, "In the myriad of emoji choices, the waffle is completely unrepresented." The chain recognizes that an embossed emoji is nominated for the next official emoji endorsed tour, but it is also asking its fans to appeal to Unicode, Apple and Google to get behind the waffle.

Perhaps the strangest tweet comes from an unlikely place, the Tampa International Airport in Florida. The airport posted a picture of a United Airlines jet that was taking off with an Apple emoji that was coming off its back.

"Forgive me if I was rude, it was not me, it was my fuel," writes Tampa International, turning emoji into a fart joke.

Way to go, Tampa International Airport. You win World Emoji Day!

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