# Missing smilies **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 13, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517 "2006-08-13T03:35:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517/81 "2006-08-22T00:13:35Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > I’m judging by this thread. I could be wrong. You have no way to prove it. It didn’t stop the administration from acting, did it? > > Seriously, are you actually arguing that point with me? I just didn’t understand how you knew that a majority of board posters wished to keep the smiley. I wasn’t trying to be cute, smart-assed, or otherwise snarky. It was a declarative statement(question), with no hidden overtones. I personally don’t care if it stays or goes. I don’t have a very strong opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517/82 "2006-08-22T00:42:22Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > I just didn’t understand how you knew that a majority of board posters wished to keep the smiley. I wasn’t trying to be cute, smart-assed, or otherwise snarky. It was a declarative statement(question), with no hidden overtones. > > I personally don’t care if it stays or goes. I don’t have a very strong opinion. Just judging by what I see in this thread, in which only a couple posters have actually come out in favor of this. How about TubaDiva come up with some evidence that this is actually a “contentious” matter and that more than one or two people are offended? The dude’s fun. It’s delightfully random to have a smiley devoted to Orthodox Judaism. Why remove it? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517/83 "2006-08-25T12:28:26Z")
I always looked upon Happy Orthodox Jewish Man with fondness, not disdain. Oh, well. I propose we get rid of all smilies, and replace them with a single one. A **TubaDiva** smiley. The icon design is obvious. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517/84 "2006-08-25T12:32:03Z")
I’ll go on record for supporting the re-establishment of the Jewish smiley. Dexter’s reasoning smacks of sickening political correctness, demanding that anything specific be removed to avoid offending the generalized masses. Frankly, fuck the masses. The masses can get their own god-damned message boards. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517/85 "2006-08-25T13:00:28Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > The masses can get their own god-damned message boards. With Blackjack, and Hookers! In fact, forget the message boards! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517/86 "2006-08-25T13:18:23Z")
I don’t really care one way or another about the two excised smilies, but you can have my rolleyes when you pry it from my cold, dead keyboard! On second thought… First they came for the Orthodox Jewish smilies, and I did not speak out, for I was not an Orthodox Jewish smilie… I’ll cast my vote to bring him back! And he needs a shorter name. Can we call him Bernie? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517/87 "2006-08-25T15:29:09Z")
I liked the little guy. To me, he looked like the lead singer from the Spin Doctors. I… got a pocket full of … kryptonite, yeah! ---
**Author:** ![Thunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@Thunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thunder)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517/88 "2006-08-25T15:35:08Z")
Has anybody actually confirmed the death of the Wally smiley? Perhaps a brand-new smiley will be added to the board just for the fact of telling us that the Wally is no longer around. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517/89 "2006-08-25T16:05:27Z")
> [@Thunder](#): > > Has anybody actually confirmed the death of the Wally smiley? > > Perhaps a brand-new smiley will be added to the board just for the fact of telling us that the Wally is no longer around. Wally is still alive and well, it’s just the smiley that’s dead. ---
**Author:** ![Thalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@Thalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thalion)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517/90 "2006-08-30T19:20:24Z")
> [@JohnBckWLD](#): > > Exactly. To compare a cartoon face with curly sideburns and a hat or yarmulke with his hypothetical Asian _anal_ogy is beyond the pate. Not all Asians are buck-toothed and wear pigtails (don’t ask for a cite) - whereas every male Hasidim dresses in the same exact way with a trademark beard and sideburns. Perhaps you’ve made **Dex** ’s argument for him. The Jewish smiley used the characteristics of a small subset of a population (the Hasadim) to represent the entire population (all Jews). I believe that’s the definition of a stereotype and exactly what **Dex** ’s example was meant to demonstrate. I don’t care much about the Jewish smiley, since I can’t imagine ever using it. I do agree with getting rid of Wally, though. Making that smiley was a great tribute when it began, but that obviously isn’t appropriate after all. And it was used incorrectly far too often to be worth the trouble. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517/91 "2012-03-28T10:19:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \<|-) Vietnamese rice-farmer How can we tell him apart from the smiling Chinaman? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517/92 "2012-03-28T10:45:30Z")
I still think we need two more smileys to replace the ones lost, to complete the set. One I’d like to have is the halo, a smiley often used to jokingly feign innocence. And a ZOMBIE smiley might help mark ZOMBIE thread without getting people’s panties in a twist. ---
**Author:** ![srzss05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@srzss05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/srzss05)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517/93 "2012-03-28T12:38:34Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > And a ZOMBIE smiley might help mark ZOMBIE thread without getting people’s panties in a twist. I think people would rather complain than have the “problem” solved. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517/94 "2012-03-28T13:23:37Z")
I still want the “he’s crazy” smiley (finger rotating around at the temple). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-smilies/368517.md?page=4)