# GMail emoticon **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 5, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-emoticon/475786 "2008-12-05T01:10:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-emoticon/475786/1 "2008-12-05T01:10:01Z")
In Gmail there’s a little blue smiley on the first tab in between the present and the phone. What the hell is it? Some kind of ejaculating wineglass? ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-emoticon/475786/2 "2008-12-05T01:19:46Z")
Oh, and anybody who wants to take a crack at it can look here: [http://mail.google.com/mail/e/517](http://mail.google.com/mail/e/517) Come on, step right up and make me feel stupid. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-emoticon/475786/3 "2008-12-05T01:28:29Z")
I don’t see it in Gmail. What happens when you click on it? ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-emoticon/475786/4 "2008-12-05T01:30:55Z")
Oh, I see it now. I was thinking it was an icon, not emoticon, even though you said so. Yeah, I guess it just looks vaguely celebratory. Wineglass? Popper? Something like that. …is that a pile of dung with flies buzzing around it all the way on the bottom right? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-emoticon/475786/5 "2008-12-05T01:40:38Z")
Looks like a [party popper](http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/14191/wm/pd398042.jpg) to me. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-emoticon/475786/6 "2008-12-05T06:19:45Z")
Yeah, they apparently offer a pile of crap as an option. That at least I could identify. Party popper seems right. It looked like liquid spraying out of it, but obviously that didn’t make much sense. Google’s kind of weird. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-emoticon/475786/7 "2008-12-05T06:22:21Z")
A short fly swatter for blue flies. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-emoticon/475786/8 "2008-12-05T14:15:21Z")
What version of Gmail are you using? Mine doesn’t have any tabs, or anything called a “present” or a “phone” (other than a place for a phone number in contact info). ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-emoticon/475786/9 "2008-12-05T14:18:18Z")
Huh. Looks like a blue Diva Cup. I’m sure it’s supposed to be a party popper. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-emoticon/475786/10 "2008-12-05T15:53:16Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > What version of Gmail are you using? Mine doesn’t have any tabs, or anything called a “present” or a “phone” (other than a place for a phone number in contact info). Standard version. I’m talking about the smiley menu on the Compose Mail screen. If you click on the smiley face button on the toolbar it pops up the menu in question. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gmail-emoticon/475786/11 "2008-12-05T16:02:55Z")
Ah… Thanks. I see it now.