# Smiley request... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 7, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568 "2005-09-07T19:36:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PigBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/21 "2005-09-08T02:46:01Z")
I just want to ask how we have survived all these years without [this](http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/images/smilies/banana.gif) smiley. It’s just one of several in the dancing fruits and vegetables category! ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/22 "2005-09-08T03:13:49Z")
> [@Abbie Normal](#): > > [MPSIMS Smiley](http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/noncgi/smiles/daisy.gif) Hell, no. We get the [pirate](http://forums.invisionpower.com/style_emoticons/default/chris.gif). ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/23 "2005-09-08T03:23:57Z")
A barf smiley would be okay. **jjimm** designed a [nice one](http://www.crowaptok.com/images/barfy.gif) a while [back](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=156129) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/24 "2005-09-08T03:33:13Z")
> [@Loopus](#): > > A barf smiley would be okay. **jjimm** designed a [nice one](http://www.crowaptok.com/images/barfy.gif) a while [back](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=156129) I couldn’t read the second link, but that first smiley is _perfect_. Not too “explicit” for the [del]stuck up wim-[/del] sensitive dopers\*, but it still gets the point across. \*Not that a smiley spewing animated technicolor puke across the page wouldn’t be appropriate for some of the posts we have around here, though. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/25 "2005-09-08T04:59:12Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > I vote for a **Scott Plaid** smiley! You mean [this one](http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~rmyers/misc/plaidsmiley.gif)? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/26 "2005-09-08T05:01:46Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > :wally - Can’t use it anywhere but Pit, messes up line breaks, sentimental value to some Dopers. This one really is the most useless smiley. The wink kills it – makes it look like you’re joking when you call somebody a putz. If you _are_ joking, then restricting it to the Pit is silly. If you aren’t joking, it looks like a really lame attempt at an insult – an insult not backed up by conviction. It needs a sarcastic face, not a winking grinny face. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/27 "2005-09-08T05:22:37Z")
We need **jjimm** ’s barfy and we should get rid of :wally. ;j can stay put because smilies don’t need to make sense, but did you know the image is actually called happyyid.gif? Check it out: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/images/smilies/happyyid.gif](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/images/smilies/happyyid.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/28 "2005-09-08T10:42:29Z")
Isn’t :dubious: the Roger Moore smiley ?? ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/29 "2005-09-08T11:55:51Z")
:dubious: \< — He looks more like The Rock to me. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/30 "2005-09-08T16:43:49Z")
> [@PigBoy](#): > > I just want to ask how we have survived all these years without [this](http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/images/smilies/banana.gif) smiley. > > It’s just one of several in the dancing fruits and vegetables category! Asked and answered… :dubious: ---
**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:** [September 8, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/31 "2005-09-08T16:48:51Z")
We need the [“neutral” smiley](http://home.earthlink.net/~awinkelried/images/smileypoll1/ch.gif) - for all those times when you want to say “I’m on the fence” or “I can’t decide one way or the other” or “I could care less”. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/32 "2005-09-08T17:04:00Z")
In the same vein, a white flag one meaning “I’m bowing out of this thread now” Perhaps because I want to end the hijack, or alternatively because it’s proving the old adage about arguing on the internet (which I won’t post here for fear of a flaming). ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/33 "2005-09-08T17:11:01Z")
Wouldn’t want to get the Swiss Dopers all wound up. But again it’s not like they would actually do anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/34 "2005-09-08T19:05:24Z")
:dubious: Always reminded me of Spock. “Fascinating, captain.” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/35 "2005-09-08T19:07:57Z")
> [@PigBoy](#): > > I just want to ask how we have survived all these years without [this](http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/images/smilies/banana.gif) smiley. > > It’s just one of several in the dancing fruits and vegetables category! I do have to say I love nana. But I vote for a pukey smiley, non-animated. Just a green one with his cheeks puffed out. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/36 "2005-09-08T20:21:14Z")
The only proper puke smiley would have to have a little dog coming out to feast on the vomit. But SDMB does not need or want animated smilies, so no pukey boy. Seriously, can we vote out some of the less useful or unclear meaning smilies? The wink, the embarrassed, and the wally either need a revamp or a retiring. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/37 "2005-09-08T22:22:32Z")
Here’s a smiley for when there just isn’t a big enough :rolleyes: to do the job: [http://www.acsalaska.net/~fmurtley/](http://www.acsalaska.net/~fmurtley/) ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/38 "2005-09-08T22:35:12Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Seriously, can we vote out some of the less useful or unclear meaning smilies? The wink, the embarrassed, and the wally either need a revamp or a retiring. If we were to add a smiley, voting one out at the same time is a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/39 "2005-09-08T22:42:06Z")
I have a sneaking fondness for the blowjob smiley, although as a semi-respectable married lady, I have never had occasion to use it for anything but illustration: :o ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568/40 "2005-09-08T22:45:14Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > I have a sneaking fondness for the blowjob smiley, although as a semi-respectable married lady, I have never had occasion to use it for anything but illustration: :o Don’t you and your husband… er… …never mind. If we’re getting rid of a smiley, I’d probably say the :wally , too as it’s really not much use. I like Happy Hasidic Jew. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-request/320568.md?page=3)