# another addition to our little group **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 14, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558 "2003-01-14T19:03:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/21 "2003-01-14T22:06:22Z")
:dubious hmmm…pezpunk is proponent of violence, is he? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/22 "2003-01-14T23:21:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > \*\*My personal preference is: if the text to replace for a smiley is a simple graphical symbol or a single letter, like 🙂 or :j then only use one colon. > Is the text to replace for the smiley is a “word” like :wally or :dubious then use two colons - :wally: or :dubious:. > However: > :wally has been around too long to change it now, to add the requirement of a second colon. (Was added before I was a moderator.) > jdavis added :smack: with two colons and :dubious with one colon. I could change :dubious: to require two colons, but heck, I figure this will be one of the little quirks about our board that make life more interesting. \*\* Man, what a fancy way to say, “I’m to damn lazy to do it.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/23 "2003-01-14T23:22:23Z")
Woah… where did all the smilies come from in the quote? ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/24 "2003-01-14T23:30:38Z")
:dubious: :wally: It’d be better if they were all two-colons, so there aren’t any rogue colons left in posts. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/25 "2003-01-14T23:52:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Amp \* > \*\*Woah… where did all the smilies come from in the quote? \*\* You didn’t check “Disable Smilies in This Post”. Arnold did. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/26 "2003-01-14T23:54:05Z")
Hmm. I’m a little :dubious about my sister being the baby. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/27 "2003-01-15T00:38:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > I could change :\*\*dubious: to require two colons, but heck, I figure this will be one of the little quirks about our board that make life more interesting. :dubious ---
**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:** [January 15, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/28 "2003-01-15T01:14:50Z")
Lazy? _Moi?_ And yet I added the need of a second colon to make the “:dubious:” smiley appear? Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Of course now this thread has gone to hell. All the :dubious:es have disappeared. «The sadness of the incomplete—the sadness that is often Life…» E.M. Forster ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/29 "2003-01-15T01:17:40Z")
:dubious: TAKE THAT! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/30 "2003-01-15T01:33:56Z")
:dubious: :smack: :dubious: :smack: :dubious: :smack: :dubious: :smack: :dubious: :smack: :wally ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/31 "2003-01-15T01:44:08Z")
:dubious: hmmmm ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/32 "2003-01-15T01:45:44Z")
:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/33 "2003-01-15T03:32:41Z")
One colon, two colons…who gives a shit? What an anal bunch y’all are. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/34 "2003-01-15T03:33:46Z")
And…:dubious: ---
**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:** [January 15, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/35 "2003-01-15T03:37:14Z")
So I guess it’s been fixed now? ---
**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:** [January 15, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/36 "2003-01-15T03:38:18Z")
Duh. Sorry **Arnold Winkelried**. Didn’t get it the first time I read what you posted. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/37 "2003-01-15T06:29:06Z")
:dubious::dubious::dubious: :dubious::dubious::dubious: : :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/38 "2003-01-15T14:54:26Z")
Oh great, now that ‘dubious’ has been given an additional colon (eeeew) my post above makes me look like an idiot that can’t code correctly! Or was that your plan all along? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/39 "2003-01-15T15:09:45Z")
awwww he’s cute!;):dubious: ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558/40 "2003-01-15T15:10:48Z")
hey! Why is he taller than the other smilies? have you fed him too much?:dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-addition-to-our-little-group/148558.md?page=3)