# Tell me about this "Smashie" I hear about... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 28, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-smashie-i-hear-about/204354 "2003-09-28T20:40:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-smashie-i-hear-about/204354/1 "2003-09-28T20:40:52Z")
Every now and then I see a reference to “Smashie”, i.e. “I want Smashie back”, especially in a smiley discussion thread or otherwise appropriate situation. Might anyone be able to give a brief history of this (I’m assuming) smiley, and the reason for its absense? ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-smashie-i-hear-about/204354/2 "2003-09-28T20:58:05Z")
During the Winter of Our Missed Content, we were temporarily housed at another board. This board had cute animated smilies, one of which was wielding a mallet. This was our beloved “Smashie”. Robin ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-smashie-i-hear-about/204354/3 "2003-09-28T20:59:42Z")
Back in the Winter of Our Missed Content, the SDMB was temporarily hosted on another website. I forget the URL. But they had an animated smiley that was one plain yellow smiley smashing another yellow smiley with an oversized hammer. It became affectionately known as Smashie. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-smashie-i-hear-about/204354/4 "2003-09-28T21:03:22Z")
wow, not just your everyday simulpost there **MsRobyn** ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-smashie-i-hear-about/204354/5 "2003-09-28T21:41:36Z")
The board was hosted over at [BBboy](http://bb.bbboy.net/). And TubaDiva did pay them for hosting us, but they still did such a good job of absorbing our massive numbers, helping us set up, and otherwise putting up with us, that they deserve the advertisement of being linked here. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-smashie-i-hear-about/204354/6 "2003-09-28T21:58:15Z")
Oh no! I wasted my 500th post on an ATMB thread about Smashie! ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-smashie-i-hear-about/204354/7 "2003-09-29T13:41:38Z")
In case you didn’t go to the BbBoy site, just click here to view the animated [Smashie](http://bb.bbboy.net/emoticons/bbboard/smash.gif). ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-smashie-i-hear-about/204354/8 "2003-09-29T15:55:07Z")
> [@](#): > > cute animated smilies _Cute?_ That’s un-possible. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-smashie-i-hear-about/204354/9 "2003-10-01T23:27:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*_Cute?_ That’s un-possible. \*\* At least I didn’t bring up that stupid function that filled in the person’s user name. I forget what it was called, but it was creepy. Robin ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-smashie-i-hear-about/204354/10 "2003-10-09T04:25:01Z")
At least **Joe K** didn’t ask about [Jackie](http://smilies.xibase.com/lfap.gif), [Humpie](http://pages.prodigy.net/rogerlori1/emoticons/hump9.gif) or [Pootie](http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/fart.gif). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-this-smashie-i-hear-about/204354/11 "2003-10-09T19:47:21Z")
Sigh. I miss Smashie and AnnoyingTag.