Sorry for the confusion. I did mention in the original thread that we were not going to add all of the proposals, but have a vote. I also posted in there, when someone asked for clarification, that we were only adding one. I suppose I should have been more clear upfront.
My apologies.
I will remove your proposals from the voting list.
Well that’s not much of a trick, Coldy.
Oh, right.
FWIW, Arnold, I found your posts on the matter to be reasonable, explicit, and polite. I, at any rate, found nothing you’ve said to be as unreasonable as tshirt seems to have.
But then, I don’t have an emotional investment in it, either. I’d like to think I have better things to do with my time. Like for example, I’m about to go for a walk with my son. Kinda puts all the silly bullshit into perspective.
Oh come on andros, what kind of a Pit post is that? 
We need gasoline on the flames, not water.
P.S. Thank you for your support.
P.P.S. When I said “we need gasoline on the flames”, I was only kidding!
P.P.P.S. Or was I? 
I think we can agree that tshirts has put more time into the smilies than most of us, which would explain why he has stronger feelings on the subject. But there was no intention to mislead anyone about the number of smilies that we were going to add after the first poll.
flowbark, I took the liberty of quoting you in this IMHO thread discussing our current smiley submissions.
tshirts: Not to beat the subject to death, but I checked the ATMB thread to verify my recollection that I thought you knew about the “one smiley at a time” proposal. I see there that I posted
before you replied to my post, in the same thread, saying
So I think it’s unfair to say, as you did in this thread
The misunderstanding is regrettable but I don’t think the fault can be lain solely at my door.
. . .
What was the middle part again? About the gasoline?
I have a modest request.
I’d like an animated smilie that, when applied to your post, invades other peoples’ posts, and takes their smilies hostage in a popup window, with an adjustable countdown timer, and a deadline that can be set.
When the countdown timer is set, an e-mail is sent to every smilie-poster in the thread. The message reads simply:
“Your smilie has been abducted and is being held in a safe place. If you do not electronically transfer one dollar to the bank account specified in the attached file, your smilies will be killed.”
But see, there’s an extra feature–and this is where it gets a little bit complicated, but I’m pretty sure it’s all permissable by law–where the attached file is really a trojan horse that records social security numbers, telephone numbers, e-mail lists, credit card numbers, and passwords. All that data is sent along to the specified account along with the electronic transfer, which automatically adjusts the transfer to just fit within the vict–, um, poster’s credit limit.
At the same time, the smilie automatically makes reservations at my local airports on a number of flights leading out to various worldwide destinations which have particular banking and extradition laws. The smilie would also arrange for a four-star hotel at each of said destinations, along with a generous quantity of the local spirits and hired escorts. And cigars. It’s gotta order some cigars, too.
Naturally, the use of this animated smilie would be limited in its application to a few select individuals at first, for testing purposes. Since I am the originator of the idea, I will naturally need to be one of the initial testers, along with perhaps one or more of this board’s administrators, and, if they really must be included, perhaps the moderators as well.
It’s a rather innovative idea, and I don’t want to overburden the ah, servers with too much initial traffic, eh? And, um, let’s keep this sort of quiet for now, right?
[mods: please insert proposed smilie here]
Sofa, I can;t in good conscience allow you to beta test something that might be dangerous to or incompatible with your computer system.
I can take the hit for the team. My computer isn’t all that great anyway.
IANAL, but I’m pretty sure it’s not legal.
You guys having a discussion on how to break the law? Ain’t that verboten here?
It’s absolutely verboten, Uncle Beer, and I expect no more discussion of Sofa King’s smiley.
At least until we talk about certain cuts of the profits.
This request is not as unusual as you might suppose. In fact, I saw a similar request on the Hot Jobs listings just last week from the Sultan of Brunei’s Chief Plenipotentate Of Message Boards. He claimed it was just for insurance purposes, and would only be used if their “20 year oil reserves” he had calculated for the Sultan were actually consumed in 19 years and he had to flee. The only problem, for those who might be inclined to make a bid for the work, is that he’s paying in oil, and it is Freight On Board Brunei.
That’s Ok. If you’re willing to take any of the misunderstanding at all, then I’ll take the rest of it. I was probably just remembering things out of time order. At least there’s now a name for it: Having a Senior Moment.