# How about a few new smilies/icons?? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 25, 2001, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664 "2001-09-25T11:28:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/1 "2001-09-25T11:28:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/2 "2001-09-25T11:29:29Z")
oh bother that was supposed to be : pinkunicorn: ---
**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/3 "2001-09-25T12:03:25Z")
I agree. I LOVE smilies. Please . . more, more MORE!!! 😃 😃 😃 (THE FLAMETHROWER ONE IS A MUST FOR THE BBQ PIT!) ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/4 "2001-09-25T13:53:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/5 "2001-09-25T18:57:19Z")
Gotta get a **:nauseous:** smilie around here. Indispensable in all the fuzzy bunny MPSIMS threads. ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/6 "2001-09-25T20:38:50Z")
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. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/7 "2001-09-26T01:50:31Z")
Dangit! I used to have an IPU smiley I’d made lying around here somewhere… I’ll see if I can dig it up. ---
**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/8 "2001-09-26T05:38:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*:tinfoilhat: - a smilie wearing a foil helmet (for use in any sort of conspiracy thread). > \*\* Or a :black helicopter: . Until then maybe we can just use the acronym: LHO-LN. * * * . . I\_\_I\_\_\_\_O . … cc ---
**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/9 "2001-09-26T05:51:30Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/10 "2001-09-27T11:22:35Z")
oh, how about a grey(gray) alien smiley too? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/11 "2001-09-27T16:03:29Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/12 "2001-09-27T23:01:43Z")
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: ---
**Author:** ![TheNewbie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@TheNewbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNewbie)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/13 "2001-09-28T03:11:56Z")
Dangit! I knew I forgot to do something in [my first post ever](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=89872). Geeze! What was I thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/14 "2001-09-30T06:23:44Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally Posted by Kamandi_ > Gotta get a :nauseous: smilie around here. 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. ---
**Author:** ![annalamerino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@annalamerino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annalamerino)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/15 "2001-09-30T17:40:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by warmgun \* > \*\*Re: The smilies - Why a jewish smiley and not other religions? I really would like to know. \*\* 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? ---
**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/16 "2001-09-30T19:24:16Z")
New smilie which may have been created by **carnivorousplant** ^:)^ - **Vulcan Smilie** ---
**Author:** ![daffodil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@daffodil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/daffodil)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/17 "2001-09-30T19:42:13Z")
$$$ 🙂 [rich smilie] †🙂 [dead smilie] «:)« [lefty smilie] ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/18 "2001-09-30T21:19:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![collectibilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@collectibilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/collectibilly)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/19 "2001-10-01T16:50:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mikemike2 \* > \*\*New smilie which may have been created by **carnivorousplant** ^:)^ - **Vulcan Smilie** \*\* ‘:D’ - Devil ---
**Author:** ![collectibilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@collectibilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/collectibilly)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-few-new-smilies-icons/83664/20 "2001-10-01T16:52:41Z")
\*\*[sup]‘[/sup][sub]:D[/sub][sup]’ - Devil