The rebus was the precursor to the imoji !! :)
Here's one:
All I have is: Sk8
Lol!
My first sentence was going to be, "I prefer not to use a rebus in written communication."
After reading the above answers, my sentence is now, "Seeing a rebus makes me think I am taking a 6th grade IQ test---I hate them."
I had a rebus once, but it got out of the cage and ran away.