# Bring back the yellow smilies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 17, 2000, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-the-yellow-smilies/12852 "2000-01-17T14:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-the-yellow-smilies/12852/1 "2000-01-17T14:02:00Z")
I was going to post this in the “About this message board” forum, but I thought it’d get more visibility here. I hate the these new “big grin” ( : D ) smilies. :mad: They are hideous. :mad: The old “big grin” smilies had been my favorite one. These new ones look like some caricature of a Chinese person. (Sorry if you’re Chinese, but if I was Chinese, I’d hate them even more.) All my old posts have them also, now. I feel violated, like if someone went through all my old posts and changed all the words to misspellings. Please bring back the old 😃 smily. ## Show your support, people. We got rid of the flaming folders, we can do this too. _It is too clear, and so it is hard to see._ ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-the-yellow-smilies/12852/2 "2000-01-17T17:45:00Z")
\Apparently nobody else cares. ☹ \ ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-the-yellow-smilies/12852/3 "2000-01-18T06:59:00Z")
_I_ like the old smilie better, too. Since it is probably a pain in the ass for the Admins to change the smilie, I use a workaround. [http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif](http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif) [http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif](http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif) [http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif](http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif) [http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif](http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif) Throw in \ and you get the old smilie. There should be no copyright infringement since the MB should own the rights to the old smilie, as far as I can tell. You’re hitting my server for the image, so if everybody and their brother does it, it might not be good, but a few should be OK. Lovers of the old smilie unite! [http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif](http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif) * * * “It’s like I always said…there’s nothing an agnostic can’t do if he really doesn’t know whether he believes in anything or not” --Monty Python, “The Meaning of Life” ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-the-yellow-smilies/12852/4 "2000-01-17T19:19:00Z")
Well, I’m with you! The old smiley was like a visual lol: [http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif](http://www.elnet.com/~sburch/sjbgrin.gif) The new smiley just looks like some guy who’s gonna get laid 😃 * * * …in a state so nonintuitive it can only be called weird… ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-the-yellow-smilies/12852/5 "2000-01-17T20:22:00Z")
And a few more come over to my (the dark) side… * * * You are now leaving a “Smiley-free zone”! A public service message brought to you by G.R.O.S.S. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-the-yellow-smilies/12852/6 "2000-01-18T04:19:00Z")
\Death to the dorky green smilies!!!\ Feel free to make that the official motto for the anti-green-smiley faction. Now all we need is a decent acronym and we’re set. * * * Your Official Cat Goddess since 10/20/99. “We are here! You are saved!” --R. & F. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-the-yellow-smilies/12852/7 "2000-01-18T05:08:00Z")
What is with the disable smiley thing? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-the-yellow-smilies/12852/8 "2000-01-18T05:54:00Z")
> [@](#): > > The new smiley just looks like some guy who’s gonna get laid Or like a guy that just DID get laid! \ * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-the-yellow-smilies/12852/9 "2000-01-18T23:52:00Z")
Oh my God, Opal, how did you do that?? That’s hilarious! 🙂 🙂 * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2000, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-the-yellow-smilies/12852/10 "2000-01-19T01:01:00Z")
No no-dork smilies dicking any (for want of a better word) recieving-smilies is worth the wait for the animation to complete. ::Even so, sitting impressed with what Opal can do with a keyboard:: * * * You are now leaving a “Smiley-free zone”! A public service message brought to you by G.R.O.S.S.