# Smackie, oh smackie, I need you!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smackie-oh-smackie-i-need-you/849923>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 20, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smackie-oh-smackie-i-need-you/849923 "2020-03-20T21:58:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smackie-oh-smackie-i-need-you/849923/1 "2020-03-20T21:58:08Z")

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Not here, obviously. We have a nice smackie, and he’s very useful, and I use him a lot.

But what with the Current Troubles I’ve been posting a lot more on Facebook (ie “at all”), and the lack of a decent :smack: is really slowing me down. Also the available :rolleyes: options kinda suck.

But at least you can show 😃 in about a dozen different ways. I guess that’s great for all those congenitally 😃 people

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smackie-oh-smackie-i-need-you/849923/2 "2020-03-20T22:46:07Z")

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I personally like the ‘smackie’ lots.  
It helps explain a few things I experience in my everyday life.

I guess that says how many boo-boos there are in my life. :smack:

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smackie-oh-smackie-i-need-you/849923/3 "2020-03-20T23:18:19Z")

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ISTM I saw it mentioned in some sticky thread around here, that the smackicon was custom drawn by a Doper for this board, explaining why it exists only here. It is indeed one of the most useful of smilie-type icons.

Still missing the older-style roll-eyes we used to have. The current one just doesn’t say the same thing.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smackie-oh-smackie-i-need-you/849923/4 "2020-03-20T23:36:36Z")

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I know it doesn’t quite look the same, but the same general idea does have [an emoji](https://emojipedia.org/person-facepalming/).

If it works right, this should be it: 🤦

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**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smackie-oh-smackie-i-need-you/849923/5 "2020-03-21T04:53:28Z")

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oh…THAT’s what that is. I thought she was doing an eye exam.

Yeah, she kinda sucks. No offense to whatever graphic artist originally drew it…

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smackie-oh-smackie-i-need-you/849923/6 "2020-03-21T04:58:49Z")

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😖isn’t this one a forehead smack?

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smackie-oh-smackie-i-need-you/849923/7 "2020-03-21T07:26:18Z")

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Okay, so this thread isn’t about heroin?

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**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smackie-oh-smackie-i-need-you/849923/8 "2020-03-21T07:41:50Z")

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not yet!

**@Beck** I don’t know WHAT yours is, but I’m sure it’s about to eat me