# If we can't have images, can we get more smilies? This is too much like radio. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 4, 2000, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-cant-have-images-can-we-get-more-smilies-this-is-too-much-like-radio/18532 "2000-05-04T05:49:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dusy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@Dusy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-cant-have-images-can-we-get-more-smilies-this-is-too-much-like-radio/18532/1 "2000-05-04T05:49:10Z")
If we can’t have images, can we get more smilies? This is too much like radio. Pictures make me happy. There, I’ve said it, and I don’t care if you tell my friends! (But could you spare Granny? She always said movies were a fad.) ---
**Author:** ![Jois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-cant-have-images-can-we-get-more-smilies-this-is-too-much-like-radio/18532/2 "2000-05-04T06:46:44Z")
It’s like having your toys taken away right after your B-Day. Too late to ask the E-Bunny. Got any teeth left? I’d write the note for you if you did. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-cant-have-images-can-we-get-more-smilies-this-is-too-much-like-radio/18532/3 "2000-05-04T09:16:22Z")
Since when do we not have images? I mean, almost no one spends more time in ATMB than I, so I should have heard. Anyways, we do have a search feature, and the issues of “smilies” “images” and “bandwidth stealing” have been addressed enough times in this forum that doing a simple search on any of the quoted terms will probably more than answer your questions. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-cant-have-images-can-we-get-more-smilies-this-is-too-much-like-radio/18532/4 "2000-05-04T10:13:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Since when do we not have images? I mean, almost no one spends more time in ATMB than I, so I should have heard. > \*\* There’s an announcement at the top of each Forum from Ed telling us about the disabling of the image tag. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-cant-have-images-can-we-get-more-smilies-this-is-too-much-like-radio/18532/5 "2000-05-04T14:08:32Z")
[geezer mode] And what’s wrong with radio, young man? Why, it was good enough for FDR, and it was good enough for the boys on the beaches of Normandy, and it was good enough for… [/geezer mode] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dusy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@Dusy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusy)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-cant-have-images-can-we-get-more-smilies-this-is-too-much-like-radio/18532/6 "2000-05-04T14:39:07Z")
waterj2 - You’re not paying attention. Read before you write, please. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-cant-have-images-can-we-get-more-smilies-this-is-too-much-like-radio/18532/7 "2000-05-04T14:49:48Z")
Well at least we’ve got this guy :o. Sheesh, I can give out all sorts of technical advice about how the message board works, even figure out why it didn’t display correctly in Netscape, but when it comes to noticing the top item in the list, noooo, I just completely miss it. Really, I do read before I post. Anyways, a brief reading of past threads on the issue should cover the problems with images in the past. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-cant-have-images-can-we-get-more-smilies-this-is-too-much-like-radio/18532/8 "2000-05-04T16:32:33Z")
Try using words. Hell, the English language has, what, 400,000 words? If you can’t paint a picture with 400,000 brushes, maybe you should try a different form of art. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-cant-have-images-can-we-get-more-smilies-this-is-too-much-like-radio/18532/9 "2000-05-04T16:58:36Z")
So, that’d be worth…uhhhh…four hundred pictures! ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-cant-have-images-can-we-get-more-smilies-this-is-too-much-like-radio/18532/10 "2000-05-04T17:11:46Z")
Cecil Adams Does. pat ---
**Author:** ![annalamerino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@annalamerino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annalamerino)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-cant-have-images-can-we-get-more-smilies-this-is-too-much-like-radio/18532/11 "2000-05-04T20:03:14Z")
* * * If we can’t have images, can we get more smilies? * * * OpalCat was kind enough to donate some great new smilies over at: \*\* [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=22810](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=22810) \*\* I hope someone at SD HQ takes advantage of them and adds them to our choices.