# GuyNblueJeans, please lay off the fucking emoticons **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 19, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591 "2007-06-19T15:06:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/41 "2007-06-19T20:45:28Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] I tend to use the same number of emoticons you find in a typical letter between Jefferson and Adams. [/QUOTE] When in the Course of human events 🙂 it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another :mad: and to assume among the powers of the earth 🆒, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them ;), a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. ☹ We hold these truths to be self-evident :smack:, that all men are created equal :o, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life 🆒, Liberty 😛 and the pursuit of Happiness :D. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/42 "2007-06-19T20:54:08Z")
[QUOTE=Billdo] We hold these truths to be self-evident :smack:, [/QUOTE] Okay, that bit was well done, my good man. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/43 "2007-06-19T20:57:33Z")
I just wanted to add that my signature has never been so timely. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/44 "2007-06-19T21:02:46Z")
[QUOTE=NoClueBoy] Okay, that bit was well done, my good man. [/QUOTE] Enthusiastically seconded. ---
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/45 "2007-06-19T23:26:09Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] I tend to use the same number of emoticons you find in a typical letter between Jefferson and Adams. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=OneCentStamp] Adams pwns Jefferson lolol!!!1111!!! 😃 [/QUOTE] Best Post EVER! PS - Adams totally pwns Jefferson. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/46 "2007-06-19T23:32:35Z")
[Smilie overuse](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=425194) here. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/47 "2007-06-19T23:49:30Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] Since we’re doing this over emoticons, let me add some of **Guy’s** most recent work that had me overusing the buggers myself [/QUOTE] What’s so confusing? He posted something intentionally provocative in the hopes that the huddled masses would gather to chirp incessantly about it. Is it just me, or does the board keep getting dumber? I guess fighting ignorance takes a real toll. Rather than squeal about the trolls, why not target the truly and unabashedly stupid people that have infested this board for years? ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/48 "2007-06-19T23:53:36Z")
[QUOTE=Billdo] When in the Course of human events 🙂 it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another :mad: and to assume among the powers of the earth 🆒, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them ;), a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. ☹ We hold these truths to be self-evident :smack:, that all men are created equal :o, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life 🆒, Liberty 😛 and the pursuit of Happiness :D. [/QUOTE] Okay, that was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/49 "2007-06-20T00:07:50Z")
[QUOTE=Waverly] What’s so confusing? He posted something intentionally provocative in the hopes that the huddled masses would gather to chirp incessantly about it. Is it just me, or does the board keep getting dumber? I guess fighting ignorance takes a real toll. Rather than squeal about the trolls, why not target the truly and unabashedly stupid people that have infested this board for years? [/QUOTE] What are you getting at here? That he’s trolling (I doubt it)? Or you think I’m dumb? Or he’s dumb? Who’s on the list of stupid people? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/50 "2007-06-20T00:20:27Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] Who’s on the list of stupid people? [/QUOTE] As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, 😕 I’ve got a little list :dubious: I’ve got a little list :eek: Of society offenders who might well be underground, 😛 And who never would be missed :mad: who never would be missed! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/51 "2007-06-20T00:54:03Z")
I’ll go one step farther and ask that he stop posting all together. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/52 "2007-06-20T01:00:19Z")
[QUOTE=Turek] I’ll go one step farther and ask that he stop posting all together. [/QUOTE] Word. That anyone could even find the floating leaf of emoticon overuse in the ocean of this guy’s nuttiness is amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Yag\_Rannavach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/858c86/32.png) [@Yag\_Rannavach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yag_Rannavach)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/53 "2007-06-20T01:12:16Z")
It’s a little known fact that emoticon overuse leads to nuttiness, so the OP was correct in picking out emoticon overuse as the thing to pit. After all, it could drive some of _us_ into that pit, while silly theories about the way things should work will never do such a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/54 "2007-06-20T01:52:58Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] What are you getting at here? That he’s trolling (I doubt it)? Or you think I’m dumb? Or he’s dumb? [/QUOTE] All of the above. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/55 "2007-06-20T03:45:28Z")
Oh, okay, **Waverly**. Gotta love the intelligence of someone nobly trying to lead the dull knives of the SDMB from an alleged troll… by posting in the thread about said alleged troll. Because that always works, right? One would think being above the fray would… well, ignore it all, perhaps? Man, you sure showed me your brilliance there! Luckily we have concerned folks like yourself helping us along the way. I’m so thankful. The only “confusion” here is how you managed to stumble into a thread about someone else, but come off as an attention whore: “Look at me! I’m clever because I don’t feed the trolls!” Good thinking, professor. I expect we shan’t hear from you here, anymore, as you’ve enlightened us all. Thanks so much! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/56 "2007-06-20T03:57:04Z")
You know, we really don’t use “shan’t” enough in every day speech. ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/57 "2007-06-20T03:58:16Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] You know, we really don’t use “shan’t” enough in every day speech. [/QUOTE] Maybe you don’t. I work it in anywhere I can. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/58 "2007-06-20T04:19:32Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] You know, we really don’t use “shan’t” enough in every day speech. [/QUOTE] Nor apparently “[apace](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8679682&postcount=44)”, but like **hawksgirl** I work 'em in where I can. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/59 "2007-06-20T04:23:29Z")
I tend to use smileys too much \>\_\< ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591/60 "2007-06-20T04:28:15Z")
Hey, when you’re called stupid, it’s time to roll out the archaic constructions. 😉 Ironically, I think I’ve used more emoticons in this thread than in any I’ve ever posted in. “There’s no emoticon for what I am feeling!” - Comic Book Guy [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guynbluejeans-please-lay-off-the-fucking-emoticons/408591.md?page=4)