Does vB allow the Admins to add custom smilies/icons/emoticons?
If so, I’d like to suggest a few:
:tinfoilhat: - a smilie wearing a foil helmet (for use in any sort of conspiracy thread)
:mooncheese: - a green cheese moon (well, we never went there after all, so it might be made of cheese)
:deadhorse: - a small equine with four legs in the air
:pinkunicorn: - hmmm this one might be difficult, as it would have to be invisible.
oh bother
that was supposed to be : pinkunicorn:
I agree. I LOVE smilies. Please . . more, more MORE!!! 
(THE FLAMETHROWER ONE IS A MUST FOR THE BBQ PIT!)
I rarely use smilies, but I’m not really against them either. With that said, I’m wholeheartedly behind :deadhorse:, and it has my hypothetical vote any time.
But I wouldn’t count on it.
Gotta get a :nauseous: smilie around here. Indispensable in all the fuzzy bunny MPSIMS threads.
While we’re at it…
How about a ‘me too!’ icon? Just an itty-bitty sign… nothing fancy.
That way, I can use it when I pledge my support for the deadhorse icon.
<< I had a point, but I lost it and can’t find my sharpener. >>
Dangit! I used to have an IPU smiley I’d made lying around here somewhere… I’ll see if I can dig it up.
Or a :black helicopter: .
Until then maybe we can just use the acronym: LHO-LN.
. . I__I____O
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TubaDiva, I just read your announcement. Given the recent turn of events, I had to chuckle at the irony.
But lets not go there…
Re: The smilies - Why a jewish smiley and not other religions? I really would like to know.
oh, how about a grey(gray) alien smiley too?
Y’all are too cute, you really are.
Yeah, we need new smilies, I promised 'em ages ago and it’s been one thing and another keeping me from 'em. Lemme see if I can free up some time and go look at things.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
I’ll set to work on designing a few right away Tuba (now that I know you’'ve not ruled the idea out, at least), heck, you can always throw 'em back in my face, can’t you? :SheepishGrin:
Dangit! I knew I forgot to do something in my first post ever. Geeze! What was I thinking?
Yeah I could have used this with the naked Osama bin Laden over in MPSIMS and the penis in the fruit punch in the BBQ Pit.
I have to assume it was initially going to be part of a set of stock “It’s A Small World After All” characters, which are common at sites that have lots of smilies. One with a plaid tam, one with a bowler, one with an Indian feathered headress, one with a Viking helmet, etc…
If that assumption were true anyway, it would make the choice just random as the first of many.
As I recall, the tech was just trying stuff buy adding a smiley, posting it and deleting the thread. He was making decisions to get the format right, as whether to use “;” or “:____:”, whether the character was going to use a capital J or small j, etc.
Anyway, he got spotted and so admitted what he was up to. Since the other characters weren’t ready, however, the focus changed from “What all smilies are available” to “What is the PC term for this single smilie”. There were several threads on that in Great Debates.
The upshot was that the character changed names, and the whole thing became more work than it was worth.
After all, after a flap like that, who wants to stir up new debates about how Indians are represented/not represented by feathered headresses?
New smilie which may have been created by carnivorousplant ^:)^ - Vulcan Smilie
$$$
[rich smilie]
† [dead smilie]
«:)« [lefty smilie]
It may also have something to do with the fact that the fellow (sdimbert, I believe it was?) who created the ;j and :wally smilies is, in fact, an orthodox Jew.
Incidentally, it’s always seemed a bit odd to me that the :wally smilie is winking, but uses a colon, whereas the ;j smilie has both eyes open, yet is spelled with a semicolon.
‘:D’ - Devil
**[sup]‘[/sup][sub]:D[/sub][sup]’ - Devil