# MSN icons **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 3, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msn-icons/382662 "2006-12-03T04:49:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msn-icons/382662/1 "2006-12-03T04:49:24Z")
Maybe I’m hallucinating, but the MSN messaging icons that appear under users’ locations seem to have turned into the top portion of a painting. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2006, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msn-icons/382662/2 "2006-12-03T08:58:41Z")
I see the top half of a figure of a person. Isn’t that how they should look? ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msn-icons/382662/3 "2006-12-03T16:51:54Z")
I see a forehead and some eyebrows. If that’s the way they always looked then I must be terribly unobservant. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2006, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msn-icons/382662/4 "2006-12-05T10:05:59Z")
You may just have darn good resolution on your monitor. Or – it’s a browser thing (damn the anti-FF conspiracy!) Anyway – your icons sound more interesting. 🙂