# I have invented a new smiley. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 1, 2002, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788 "2002-07-01T06:00:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d07c76/32.png) [@flup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flup)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/1 "2002-07-01T06:00:41Z")
It looks like this: :-3 It is a buttface. If you want to graphicalize it, feel free. Use it. flupface ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/2 "2002-07-01T07:16:25Z")
Looks more like a guy with a moustache. Or a whiskerless-tuskless walrus. A John Lennon tribute, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Philosophocles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Philosophocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philosophocles)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/3 "2002-07-01T07:30:44Z")
Or maybe he got chin implants ---
**Author:** ![Disciple\_of\_Alf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/958977/32.png) [@Disciple\_of\_Alf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disciple_of_Alf)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/4 "2002-07-01T07:43:47Z")
}:^D ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/5 "2002-07-01T11:51:33Z")
It’s the “Jay Leno” smilie. ---
**Author:** ![Hyphen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d07c76/32.png) [@Hyphen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyphen)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/6 "2002-07-01T11:55:51Z")
\>^\* - constipated ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/7 "2002-07-01T12:18:05Z")
@:^] Elvis. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/8 "2002-07-01T12:44:09Z")
Kinda looks like 'nads hanging down below the chin to me. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/9 "2002-07-01T12:51:24Z")
Here’s one I invented last year: P-) It’s a pirate. I’d use it while in IM chat letting friends know I was hanging out in the binary newsgroups. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/10 "2002-07-01T12:51:52Z")
Just what I was thinking. “Balls-On-Chin” guy ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/11 "2002-07-01T12:54:51Z")
It’s Family Guy! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/12 "2002-07-01T13:28:34Z")
I invented this \*\* @=:-) \*\* That’s meant to me a lightbulb over the smiley’s head. I guess one would use it to indicate that one had just been struck by a particularly spectacular idea. I’ve never had to use it. It doesn’t get any more MPSIMS than this. ---
**Author:** ![flup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d07c76/32.png) [@flup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flup)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/13 "2002-07-01T16:30:59Z")
This is actually the first one I invented, it’s rather complex, but :-O+++++D…o… It’s a vomity face. You’d be surprised how often this comes in handy. I’ve had so many IM comversations where I wished I had a guy puking to throw in… ---
**Author:** ![Victory\_Candescence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Victory\_Candescence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victory_Candescence)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/14 "2002-07-01T22:34:39Z")
|-😑 Is it a face with a propeller-hat on top? Or is it a propeller-hat wearing an upside-down face on it? The world may never know. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/15 "2002-07-01T22:40:41Z")
🙂 - 8 - -\> - - -| ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/16 "2002-07-01T22:42:41Z")
And then there is the bad boob job emoticon: ( [sub]o[/sub] Y [sup]o[/sup] ) ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/17 "2002-07-01T22:42:54Z")
Wow, **Opal** , that wuz _hott_. ---
**Author:** ![JBERGES](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@JBERGES](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBERGES)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/18 "2002-07-01T22:48:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stupendous man \* > \*\*@:^] > > Elvis. \*\* Elvis Impersonator… **5:-0** ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-invented-a-new-smiley/116788/19 "2002-07-02T00:33:39Z")
:?() a nosy smiley @8^) since the Elvis impersonators often wear sunglasses, might this work as well? S-) drunk smiley (can be used simultainously with the vomit smiley for best results) :-I self-satisfied smiley