# Oh Arnold Dear! Remember that new smiley poll? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 27, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039 "2002-11-27T05:01:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/1 "2002-11-27T05:01:55Z")
Oh I don’t know how long ago it was but I remember you said you would start a new poll for a new smiley…and…?? I just thought I’d try asking again and see what happens 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/2 "2002-11-27T14:19:53Z")
And then personal life caught up with me. Next week I may be able to get to it. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/3 "2002-11-27T14:33:01Z")
Personal life? PERSONAL LIFE? Who do you think you are, having a PERSONAL LIFE?!?!?! None of us have one - you shouldn’t either! Now give us more smilies! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/4 "2002-11-27T16:07:21Z")
Take all the time you need **Arnold**. I hope things are going okay in your personal life. Happy Thanksgiving too 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/5 "2002-11-28T06:04:41Z")
Yeah… take your time. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/6 "2002-11-28T15:12:27Z")
Could you offer a libertarian smilie? It could be miniature animated Statue of Liberty, with perhaps multi-colored lens flares coming from the torch, and a tiny reproduction of Emma Lazarus’s poem underneath. If possible, it would be nice to have a text balloon with the words “Peaceful honest people ought to be free to pursue their own happiness in their own way,” similar to the balloon on the Wally smilie. It would be handy to use, say, when someone advocates involuntary home inspections, or when someone writes mysoginistic screeds about women having not rights. That sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/7 "2002-11-28T15:28:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*Could you offer a libertarian smilie? > > It could be miniature animated Statue of Liberty, with perhaps multi-colored lens flares coming from the torch, and a tiny reproduction of Emma Lazarus’s poem underneath. If possible, it would be nice to have a text balloon with the words “Peaceful honest people ought to be free to pursue their own happiness in their own way,” similar to the balloon on the Wally smilie. > > It would be handy to use, say, when someone advocates involuntary home inspections, or when someone writes mysoginistic screeds about women having not rights. That sort of thing. \*\* Or it could be used as a “smackie” when posters try to usurp our national icons for their own political ends. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/8 "2002-11-28T19:22:09Z")
:smack: Gah, you’re right. We should have selected a jackass. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/9 "2002-11-29T04:39:48Z")
I liked the one suggestion called ‘wry’, it was something like :Z. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/10 "2002-11-29T04:47:16Z")
:Z That was mine! ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/11 "2002-11-29T04:57:32Z")
How interesting. ---
**Author:** ![NardoPolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NardoPolo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NardoPolo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/12 "2002-11-30T00:56:28Z")
I’ve always been partial to the look of resignation: :-\ As in, that’s just the way it is :-\ ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/13 "2002-11-30T23:06:05Z")
**NardoPolo** , that’s the only smiley I ever use in IM conversations, except mine goes the other way. =/ ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/14 "2002-12-01T00:38:38Z")
Yeah, but I was never sure how to give that smiley a furrowed brow. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/15 "2002-12-01T01:28:12Z")
How about this one for “You make me throw up.” :Q~~~ ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/16 "2002-12-01T01:34:52Z")
quote from Libertarian: > [@](#): > > “Peaceful honest people ought to be free to pursue their own happiness in their own way”… > > It would be handy to use, say, when someone advocates involuntary home inspections, or when someone writes mysoginistic screeds about women having not rights. That sort of thing. Hey! but writing mysoginistic screeds about women having no rights may be how I find my happiness…[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/17 "2002-12-01T14:08:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*Could you offer a libertarian smilie? > > It could be miniature animated Statue of Liberty, with perhaps multi-colored lens flares coming from the torch, and a tiny reproduction of Emma Lazarus’s poem underneath. If possible, it would be nice to have a text balloon with the words “Peaceful honest people ought to be free to pursue their own happiness in their own way,” similar to the balloon on the Wally smilie. > \*\* Or, a little frowning smiliey, holding up a sign that reads: “I lost the election, but I don’t care, 'cause winning my in-party feuds are more important”. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/18 "2002-12-01T19:30:30Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/19 "2002-12-02T21:59:10Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve always been partial to the look of resignation: > :-\ I thought that emoticon was supposed to register one’s skepticism at a statement. ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039/20 "2002-12-03T03:43:31Z")
I’m particularly fond of our [beer drinking](http://pub31.ezboard.com/bgdope.showEmoticonsHelp) smilies over at G’Dope. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-arnold-dear-remember-that-new-smiley-poll/139039.md?page=2)