# Is it just me or did the SDMB get a case of the pretties? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 31, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-sdmb-get-a-case-of-the-pretties/297080 "2005-03-31T16:50:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-sdmb-get-a-case-of-the-pretties/297080/61 "2005-04-01T16:44:55Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > Is it me, or has the look of the SDMB continued to change since this thread was established? Many of the icons look completely different as of this morning! It does seem to be a work in progress. The smilies look the same to me, but when I posted, I was a member, now I’m nothin’ at all. Maybe we should all just be ‘Poster children’. ---
**Author:** ![Foible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Foible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foible)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-sdmb-get-a-case-of-the-pretties/297080/62 "2005-04-01T20:52:43Z")
Hey! I just flushed my cache and got the old familliar smilies back. Now I have to figure out if I’m a **Charter Member** as promised in the “Subscribe” info, a **Member** as promised by Ed, or **Nothing** as I was earlier today. ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-sdmb-get-a-case-of-the-pretties/297080/63 "2005-04-01T22:02:03Z")
Ooh, I like the new look. It’s very pretty, except I don’t see what’s changed with the smileys…Especially the toothy one. Wasn’t it always toothy? Or maybe I wasn’t being observant the first time? ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-sdmb-get-a-case-of-the-pretties/297080/64 "2005-04-01T22:19:52Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > Ooh, I like the new look. It’s very pretty, except I don’t see what’s changed with the smileys…Especially the toothy one. Wasn’t it always toothy? Or maybe I wasn’t being observant the first time? Eh. That’s all it gets from me. A solid ‘eh’. But the smilies look just the same to me, too. Weird. I even still have ole’ skeptic. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-sdmb-get-a-case-of-the-pretties/297080/65 "2005-04-01T23:01:39Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > Ooh, I like the new look. It’s very pretty, except I don’t see what’s changed with the smileys…Especially the toothy one. Wasn’t it always toothy? Or maybe I wasn’t being observant the first time? Now it’s hyper-toothy. It’s Satanically toothy. It’s I-wanna-shoot-those-teeth-out-with-a-bazooka toothy. But enough about the negative. I love poor little “confused”: 😕 I really do. That may as well be a picture of my brain. That’s exactly how I feel most every day when I read the paper in the morning. It is the ultimate pictographic expression of my sentiments when viewing of much of the world right now: distressed, blue, and utterly bemused. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-sdmb-get-a-case-of-the-pretties/297080/66 "2005-04-01T23:06:45Z")
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - but one featurette tops them all: **Thread Title Previews** I predict _Miss Spelled_ title occurances will drop by at least 1.25% ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-sdmb-get-a-case-of-the-pretties/297080/67 "2005-04-02T08:05:09Z")
> [@Fern Forest](#): > > Well, give me a few days and I’ll have completely forgotten how things used to look. You ever see that archive site with the old style dope? It’s freaky. No, but I’d love to. Got a link fot the curious amongst us? ---
**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:** [April 2, 2005, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-sdmb-get-a-case-of-the-pretties/297080/68 "2005-04-02T09:51:50Z")
yay… I now have my :dubious: back. You say JFK killed himself? :dubious: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-sdmb-get-a-case-of-the-pretties/297080/69 "2005-04-02T13:28:29Z")
I like the new look. Very cool. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-sdmb-get-a-case-of-the-pretties/297080/70 "2005-04-02T14:00:45Z")
I don’t mind the changes at all, its just they seem to be coming in dribs and drabs on my PC. Meebe I’ll save all the old smilies before they go, just for old time’s sake 😛 ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-sdmb-get-a-case-of-the-pretties/297080/71 "2005-04-03T02:45:56Z")
WHAAAAHTTT happened! Everything looks like it’s infected with XP! (I’ve had Safari running nonstop for weeks until tonight and haven’t seen what all the hoopla is about). I’ve seen the missing “Charter Member” and such, but that was all until I restarted my laptop to do Target Disk mode and now it’s like the “Mirror, Mirror” episode of Star Trek. ::checks to see if he has an Agonizer suddenly attached to him:: This is going to take a little getting used to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-did-the-sdmb-get-a-case-of-the-pretties/297080.md?page=3)