# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2002, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/61 "2002-05-17T00:35:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*I’m probably laying myself wide open to ridicule here, but the caveman smiley looks a bit like a Jesus smiley to me \*\* Hm. First thing I thought of when I saw the caveman smiley was “Tommy Chong” ---
**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 17, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/62 "2002-05-17T16:42:36Z")
What do you mean, saying my smileys won’t fit the needs of the SDMB!?!? Sir, I urge you to reconsider. I think that everyone would have a use for my innovative and effective “scrotal” emoticon. ---
**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 17, 2002, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/63 "2002-05-17T19:01:56Z")
Sofa King - will you not think of the children? ☹ Imagine this hypothetical situation : a trusting father tells his four-year-old son Johnny “Today I will teach you to use the Internet. Type in [pbs.org](http://pbs.org) up here and we will find some information about Teletubbies.” Little Johnny, not well-versed in the use of the keyboard, instead of typing in “[pbs.org](http://pbs.org)”, makes an innocent typographical error and enters something like [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=7f0732b0831eb8541c5fbf1322c1c6e8&postid=2108897#post2108897](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=7f0732b0831eb8541c5fbf1322c1c6e8&postid=2108897#post2108897) where to his astonishment he is presented with Sofa King’s “deep throat” smiley. How can his destroyed innocence be restored? ---
**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 17, 2002, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/64 "2002-05-17T21:53:29Z")
Quoth **Yo La Tengo** : > [@](#): > > True, they’re not the same thing, but when would a martian smilie “make sense” when an alien one would not? When it’s posted by **Podkayne** , perhaps, or **Tars Tarkas** (I think we might also have a **Michael Valentine Smith** on the board, as well). While both are assuredly Martians (although strictly speaking, I suppose that Tars is a Barsoomian), neither one is one of the Greys who are operating the mind-control devices. The “alien” smiley is more thematically connected to the “tinfoil” one than it is to the “martian” one. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/65 "2002-05-18T00:24:07Z")
What would a **“One Trick Pony”** smiley look like? I just don’t think the unicorn does the trick… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/66 "2002-05-19T00:37:28Z")
Crap! I just submitted some before I read the thread that it is now closed ☹ Here are the ones I was submitting: [http://fff.fathom.org/pages/opalcat/sdmb-smilies.html](http://fff.fathom.org/pages/opalcat/sdmb-smilies.html) ---
**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 20, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/67 "2002-05-20T15:51:13Z")
OpalCat, one of the IMHO threads (see links on page 1 of _this_ thread) explains that the submission period was closed but now reopened. ---
**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 21, 2002, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/68 "2002-05-21T03:00:40Z")
Can somebody please draw a :drunk: smiley? Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/69 "2002-05-21T03:05:31Z")
Ok color me confused all over then ROFL ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Kahuna_Burger)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/70 "2002-05-25T22:27:56Z")
Now that May 24 has come and gone, will we have the first round coming soon in IMHO? ---
**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 26, 2002, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297/71 "2002-05-26T00:09:47Z")
Yup. The polling will start tomorrow morning. I am going to create a sample poll in ATMB for people to be able to test the vBulletin polling feature before they cast their official smiley vote(s). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-new-smilies/108297.md?page=3)