My Idea for Disabling Smilies...

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Well, the boards have already been redesigned. So it is probably too late to add anything now. But just recently I thought of an idea for disabling the smilies.

As you probably know, sometimes a person might want to disable the smilies. This is often to avoid confusion, like when there is some punctuational reason to add a “:” to a “)”, and so forth. But I was just thinking, instead of disabling the smilies for the whole post (and thus depriving the poster of possibly needed emoticons), why not disable them thus:

[DISABLE SMILIES]Now is the time for all good men to come to the service of their country.[/DISABLE SMILIES]

It’s just an idea I thought I’d throw out :slight_smile: .

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[disable smilies]

Hey! it works!! :smiley:

[/disable smilies]

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:stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

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How often is :stuck_out_tongue: used to convey sticking one’s tongue out as opposed to laughing (which is what it looks like)

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Until just recently, when some Doper pointed out that this smilie was actually sticking its tongue out, I always interpreted it as laughing. And most of the time when I see it, a laughing smilie seems more apropos than a taunting tongue.

I interpret :slight_smile: as simply a warm, pleasureable smile.
I interpret :smiley: as a “gotcha” grin; or “that rude comment was meant to be funny”.
I interpret :stuck_out_tongue: as a “that was really funny” expression.

Irrespective of its name, :stuck_out_tongue: just doesn’t look like someone sticking out their tongue.