It doesn’t look like someone sticking their tongue out. It looks like someone smirking, because the tongue is too short and doesn’t have the distinctive cartoony dividing line in it.
I suggest we update it. I’ll volunteer to do it if ye’ll let me.
The smackie smilie and Mr. Dubious are contributions by SDMB participants.
I will note that :smack: substitutes well for :o and :dubious: substitutes for :rolleyes: .
I myself have a proposed icon that substitutes for Mr. Winky, whom I find a little corny. I call it, “:bemused:”
I would recommend that designers of these icons keep in mind that their ultimate purpose is to soften the written word, and not agitate the reader. IMHO of course.
In the past, Arnold has run contests for new SDMB smilies. Let’s have another!
Hm. While we’re at it, we could have a retirement contest. Maybe :o could be given a dignified burial. {Or perhaps not: retiring it might make the interpretation of previous threads slightly onerous.}
I agree. And for all those worried about having too many smileys, I suggest we make a ritual sacrifice of the rolleyes one. Lor’ how I loathe that refuge of the bitter-but-too-thick-to-be-snarky, especially when it compromises the entire post.
But yeah, I can visualise what jjimm has in mind with the classic cartoony tongue. It’d be much better.
The problem is that in color coding the smileys (blue, green, etc…), the coloring is way too dark. The black lines on dark colors just doesn’t show up. More contrast is needed and is easy to do simply by lightening up the colors.