Why do we have a Happy Jewish Man ;j , anyway? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course. Could we possibly get a Guilty Catholic Guy? I could suggest a prototype picture . . . but this isn’t that type of board.
And, since I’m hijacking anyway, I know he’s a Happy Jewish Man, but I always seem to see him as a spider. A Happy Spider, but still a Spider.
and are technically known as gateway smilies. 86.9% of all people who use those smilies go on to the hard stuff, such as :rolleyes: or :eek: or even :dubious:. Do yourself a favor and stop using smilies now! Before you do this: :mad:
I strongly support the adoption of Thrusty! At least 50% of my posts could be replaced by a single ::thrusty::. Think of the time savings! For example, now I have to type out:
Hey, Middlecase, nice fucking idea! I got yer thrusty right here! Up yours, pal!
The same message could just as accurately be conveyed with a Thrusty and a Winkie.
Truly, with Thrusty, the board would enter a new Golden Age of incivility. I for one welcome our new thrusting overlords.
Some people have time to spend crafting an intelligent and well written reply to why you feel the previous posters argument was specious or outright incorrect.
The rest of us have a life outside the internet and use crutches like smilies to save time.
There’s an assumption here that, if you can write well, smilies are redundant. I wonder if that’s really true. Take Jane Austen, for instance. Surely her prose would have been even more powerful with a few well-placed smilies - unfortunately, she was born in the wrong century. Just imagine how she might have used them:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife
Sometimes a post from a certain poster defies words and begs for the :rolleyes: I will continue to use it for those instances. Mainly because it mirrors my own expression.
;j Funny, I never thought of him as a Happy Jewish Man. I’ve always thought of it as a Little Brownie Girl. Maybe because I’ve got curly hair like that and I was in the brownies when I was little. So it kinda looks like me.
Of course, I can also look a little like a Happy Jewish Man on a bad day, so that one can work too.