# Smiles

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiles/51469>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 23, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiles/51469 "2001-01-23T22:26:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Davidbw1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@Davidbw1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davidbw1)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiles/51469/1 "2001-01-23T22:26:55Z")

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How is it that you make smiles anyway?

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**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiles/51469/2 "2001-01-23T22:33:08Z")

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Go to the bottom of this thread and where it says

> [@](#):
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> Smilies are on.

Click on the word Smilies. It’ll tell ya’.

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**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiles/51469/3 "2001-01-23T22:36:55Z")

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Just trying something.  
Click on this:

[Smilies](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?action=showsmilies)

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**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiles/51469/4 "2001-01-23T22:38:24Z")

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**Woo-hoo!**

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**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiles/51469/5 "2001-01-24T01:14:36Z")

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But what I wanna know is, can I use 🙂 with other  
things,like

a subscript smilie ? you know, like [sub][sub] 😃 :eek: [/sub][/sub]?

or an underline smilie? [[sub][/sub]u]:wally [/\*\*u]

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**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiles/51469/6 "2001-01-24T01:17:14Z")

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Sorry, jack. You can’t. But you can make linking smilies! [😛](http://3weasel.20m.com/quotes.html)

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**Author:** ![Nessy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f04885/32.png) [@Nessy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nessy)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiles/51469/7 "2001-01-24T01:57:17Z")

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😛  
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