# On the topic of new smilies **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 15, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-topic-of-new-smilies/142953 "2002-12-15T21:49:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-topic-of-new-smilies/142953/1 "2002-12-15T21:49:54Z")
How many new smilies are we looking at? How many are in the running? When will the voting be? Same voting method as last time? Thanks, Clay ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-topic-of-new-smilies/142953/2 "2002-12-15T23:56:05Z")
See the sticky at the top of the forum. [The second great smiley election](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=148441). ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-topic-of-new-smilies/142953/3 "2002-12-16T04:37:44Z")
The questions I asked I don’t believe were answered well in that thread… Like when is the voting? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-topic-of-new-smilies/142953/4 "2002-12-16T10:14:16Z")
[Mr. Miyagi voice] Ahftah ahftah! [/Mr. Miyagi voice] ---
**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:** [December 16, 2002, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-topic-of-new-smilies/142953/5 "2002-12-16T18:17:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by clayton\_e \* > The questions I asked I don’t believe were answered well in that thread… Au contraire, my dear chap! 🙂 Libertarian - one of my favourite Kung Fu movies! I love the simplicity of teaching martial arts skills through the repetition of household chores. Wax the car! Sand the deck! Paint the fence! When my son wants to learn karate, I shall emply the Miyagi method and kill two birds with one stone. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-topic-of-new-smilies/142953/6 "2002-12-16T21:13:12Z")
Clayton, the sticky doesn’t say when the voting is, so that means that they haven’t set a date for the voting yet. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-topic-of-new-smilies/142953/7 "2002-12-17T08:52:20Z")
Arnold I feel the same way. 🙂 I love Karate Kid! ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-topic-of-new-smilies/142953/8 "2002-12-17T12:05:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*Arnold > > I feel the same way. 🙂 I love Karate Kid! \*\* I hated it. Not because it was a bad movie, it wasn’t. It’s probably the best acting that either Ralph Macchio or Pat Morita ever did. But I was a _huge_ Legion of Superheros fan and when I heard about a movie called “The Karate Kid”, I assumed it was about the character from the comics (who’d been around since 1965 or so). I mean: can you imagine going to see a movie called, say…“Superman” and not involving the guy from Krypton? So when I went to see it, I was really, really pissed. “It’s about some kid being bullied? Where’s the alien ninjas? Where’s Mordru the evil space-sorcerer? What about the Fatal Five? What do you _mean_ that he’s up against some punks? That’s _it_???” So I really couldn’t appreciate it on it’s own merits. Fenris