# Suggestion for a new smilie

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-smilie/100375>\
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**Created:** [March 27, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-smilie/100375 "2002-03-27T14:47:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-smilie/100375/1 "2002-03-27T14:47:09Z")

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We need a duck and run smilie. Perhaps a happy face with two running legs, or a happy face with “movement” lines to the side?

Sua

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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-smilie/100375/2 "2002-03-27T14:50:04Z")

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How about a running duck?

🙂

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**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:** [March 27, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-smilie/100375/3 "2002-03-27T15:16:20Z")

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OK SuaSponte break out your crayons and design it!

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**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-smilie/100375/4 "2002-03-29T01:57:46Z")

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🧱 and :bricks: on [Opal’s Smilie List](http://fff.fathom.org/ubb/smilies.fhtml) have some of the flavor of :d&r: Unfortunately they are animated.

A small figure with a brick speeding above (or rather above and “just beyond” might have some of the same flavor.

```auto

         - - - -[__] 
            :eek:

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-smilie/100375/5 "2002-03-29T13:11:38Z")

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Bah! Humbug! Smilies, they make me sick.  
Imagine if you found a portfolio by Shakespeare:

To be 🙂 or not to be ☹ ;  
That is the question 😕  
Whether is nobler in the mind 🆒  
To suffer :eek: the slings and arrows \< smilie with Steve-Martin-type arrow through head \>  
Of outrageous fortune 😃  
Or to take up arms :mad:  
Against a sea of troubles :wally  
And by opposing, end them \< dead smilie with x’s for eyes \>

Pfaugh, I say! Get rid of all of them!