# Emoticons **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 30, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594 "2003-05-30T18:26:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/1 "2003-05-30T18:26:22Z")
There should be a blushing icon. The “blushing” one looks more like a yawn. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/2 "2003-05-30T18:39:18Z")
there should be a yawn one, too ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/3 "2003-05-30T18:55:07Z")
Personally, I’ve always thought ol’ blushie :o looked a bit like a “working girl” caught in the act, if you get my drift. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/4 "2003-05-30T20:23:45Z")
:mad: 🆒 :o ;j 🙂 :wally 😉 :smack: :dubious: :rolleyes: 😛 😃 :eek: ☹ 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/5 "2003-05-30T20:26:37Z")
Oh yes…and I didn’t weigh in on this one before… Although I know some people really hate the new raised eyebrow, I really, REALLY like it. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/6 "2003-05-31T00:35:03Z")
But where’s the PUKING SMILEY??? That’s the one everybody seems to think we need the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/7 "2003-05-31T00:44:34Z")
I miss Smashy… ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/8 "2003-05-31T00:57:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by belladonna \* > \*\*Personally, I’ve always thought ol’ blushie :o looked a bit like a “working girl” caught in the act, if you get my drift. \*\* Drift caught! The other day in the [url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=185937&pagenumber=3]music trivia thread, the completion of this Jefferson Airplane quote was “when I went down on you,” and I was thinking about adding ol’ :o to the end of my reply. And **Dijon Warlock** , hell yeah, the up-chucking smilie was the best. (With second place going to the ever-enthralling Jewish Orthodox Smilie: ;j – for those times when you’re feeling so orthodoxly Jewish that you can’t help but share). ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/9 "2003-05-31T01:01:25Z")
Blah–fixed link:[the music trivia thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=185937&pagenumber=3). ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/10 "2003-05-31T14:55:03Z")
What we NEED, is the smiley that raises a flag out to his side and says, “WTF?”, or the one where he’s holding a sign pointing upward saying, “I’m with stupid”. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/11 "2003-05-31T16:22:50Z")
Hey, is it pronounced Emosh-i-con, or Emo-ti-con? just wondering… (i’ve always used the latter myself, but it just occured to me that it might be pronounced the other way) ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/12 "2003-05-31T17:07:37Z")
E-mo-ti-con. YMMV. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/13 "2003-05-31T17:19:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ParentalAdvisory \* > \*\*What we NEED, is the smiley that raises a flag out to his side and says, “WTF?”, or the one where he’s holding a sign pointing upward saying, “I’m with stupid”. \*\* A certain other message board I’m on has the first one, but not the second. In fact, that board has a few emoticons that could be very useful here… like the one that has the little smiley guy running for his life. (titled “outta here!”) Of course, since this board doesn’t do animated smilies (for very good reason, I might add)… then that’s out. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/14 "2003-05-31T19:08:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by belladonna \* > \*\*Personally, I’ve always thought ol’ blushie :o looked a bit like a “working girl” caught in the act, if you get my drift. \*\* _Working_ girl? You don’t think girls (and boys) do that for free :)? It the interests of fairness, it’s nice to know we also have a cunninlingus smilie 😛 ---
**Author:** ![pZott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pZott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pZott)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/15 "2003-05-31T19:27:19Z")
[when smilies go horribly, horribly wrong…](http://www.qnet.com/~pontius/smile/smilelmp_1%5b1%5d.htm) amen on Smashy, **Wolfiam**! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/16 "2003-05-31T19:30:26Z")
I vote for the [sepaku](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=176846#post3273926) smilie. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emoticons/178594/17 "2003-06-01T13:05:08Z")
That’s a blush? Oh. I have to say, some smilies rarely get used. :D, :rolleyes: ,:eek: , 😕 seem to do the most work (of the original ones) though some of the others are indespensible in a few situations, so are close to my heart (;j ). :smack: is a great addition because often people make a mistake, and then it doesn’t really matter how they phrase ‘sorry, I didn’t mean quite that…’ the smilie tells you all you need to know. This is why a d&r smilie would be useful. Or a ‘That proof must be flawed, since it proves an obvious absurdity. The flaw may or may not be obvious’ smilie, a VPU. (OK, you got me. I just like the visible pink unicorn smilie)