# adding new smilies **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 10, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297 "2002-05-10T15:54:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/41 "2002-05-13T05:57:03Z")
Enderw24 - I wouldn’t recommend that because my webpage probably won’t be there forever and those threads would be confusing in the future. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/42 "2002-05-13T06:36:43Z")
For the love of all that is good, no one draw a ::d&r:: smiley. Thank heavens the submission period is over. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/43 "2002-05-13T10:28:52Z")
God help us all. ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/44 "2002-05-13T12:36:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kabbes \* > God help us all. That’s it!! We need a smiley to represent this sentiment. Lord knows I think this to myself often enough while browsing the SDMB. Oh wait… I neither use nor like the use of smileys. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/45 "2002-05-13T14:29:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > \*\*Enderw24 - I wouldn’t recommend that because my webpage probably won’t be there forever and those threads would be confusing in the future. \*\* [#28](http://home.earthlink.net/~awinkelried/smpoll1/) ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/46 "2002-05-13T14:33:52Z")
You whooshed me?!? #18 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/47 "2002-05-13T15:40:53Z")
Due to a misunderstanding about the number of smilies to be added, a poster has withdrawn his/her submissions, so there ist still time to submit more smilies. I should have been more clear in my original post, but as I stated above in my answer to White Lightning, we are only adding one at a time. The [current list](http://home.earthlink.net/~awinkelried/smpoll1/). ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/48 "2002-05-13T16:11:06Z")
P.S. The submission period will end either at the time mentioned in the OP: 24 May 2002 24:00 (12 midnight - PDT - California, USA Daylight Savings Time), or when we reach 50 submissions, whichever occurs first. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/49 "2002-05-13T18:55:42Z")
There are two threads in IMHO related to the smiley poll: [Statisticians or electoral process specialists - question on polling](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=114877) [Pre-smiley poll debate](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=114883) ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/50 "2002-05-13T19:12:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Achernar \* > \*\*If anyone has any ideas for smileys but lacks the time or talent to draw them, I’d love to try my hand at it, even though I don’t have any clever ideas. Anyone? Thanks. \*\* How about a Drool smiley, a la Homer Simpson? Y’know like, “Mmmm…donuts…_drool_” ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/51 "2002-05-13T21:35:45Z")
I’m probably laying myself wide open to ridicule here, but the caveman smiley looks a bit like a Jesus smiley to me ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/52 "2002-05-13T23:17:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Achernar \* > \*\*If anyone has any ideas for smileys but lacks the time or talent to draw them, I’d love to try my hand at it, even though I don’t have any clever ideas. Anyone? Thanks. \*\* Hey! Combine the “caveman” smilie and smashie and instant OG Smash! smilie (alternatively, you could give him a mallet and make him look like Lawrence Oliver in _Clash of the Titans_) ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/53 "2002-05-16T02:57:17Z")
I just sent a file off to **Arnold** , so you all can quit discussing this now. All of you will love what I sent in and there will be no further debate once it is posted. However, if I could enlist someone’s help… I have an idea for the greatest emoticon ever, but it is beyond my capabilities as an artist. So if anyone would like to take a crack at “bloody homicidal clown-ish,” by all means please do so. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/54 "2002-05-16T17:50:48Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m probably laying myself wide open to ridicule here, but the caveman smiley looks a bit like a Jesus smiley to me I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought so. On the other hand, it might be a nice counterpoint to ;j. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/55 "2002-05-16T18:10:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sofa King \* > I just sent a file off to **Arnold** , so you all can quit discussing this now. Sofa King, you’re such a kidder that I don’t know if you really sent me a smiley or not. I didn’t see anything in my inbox. ---
**Author:** ![Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yo_La_Tengo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/56 "2002-05-16T19:03:20Z")
Is there any need for an alien smilie _and_ a martian smilie? Perhaps those two should be paired up like other similar ones… ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/57 "2002-05-16T19:31:39Z")
Yo La Tengo - not all aliens are from Mars! Go post that in the IMHO thread discussing the new smilies (see link on page 1 of this thread) and see if the authors agree. I personally think they should be separate. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/58 "2002-05-16T20:22:54Z")
You didn’t get my smileys? I’ll send it again tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/59 "2002-05-16T20:24:30Z")
This makes me feel bloody homicidal clown-ish, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yo_La_Tengo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2002, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/60 "2002-05-16T22:17:46Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried_ > **Yo La Tengo - not all aliens are from Mars! Go post that in the IMHO thread discussing the new smilies (see link on page 1 of this thread) and see if the authors agree. I personally think they should be separate.** True, they’re not the same thing, but when would a martian smilie “make sense” when an alien one would not? Oh forget it. I give up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297.md?page=4)