# We need more smilies.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-more-smilies/399911>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 13, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-more-smilies/399911 "2007-04-13T04:36:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Chasing\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@Chasing\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chasing_Dreams)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-more-smilies/399911/41 "2007-04-16T05:10:16Z")

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[QUOTE=Mbossa]  
Great idea! While we’re at it, we should introduce [blink] and [marquee] tags and make **Comic Sans** the default font.  
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Yes, yes, definitely.

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Yes, yes, definitely. :rolleyes:  
See how the smilie can how convey meaning? 😃  
To everyone: I guess we will have to agree to disagree on the smilie issue. However, I do agree that :o conveys the meaning that you want to give someone a blowjob instead of saying you are embarrassed. The more artist types on this board should give it a Photoshop session.

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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:** [April 16, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-more-smilies/399911/42 "2007-04-16T05:16:03Z")

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[QUOTE=Fear Itself]  
Or, “I have a knife in my pocket, so don’t cross me!”  
[/QUOTE]  
That’s not a knife in my pocket, I just like posting here.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-more-smilies/399911/43 "2007-04-16T15:25:07Z")

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We need less smilies, can we vote to evict one? I’d like to see this fella take the long walk: :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-more-smilies/399911/44 "2007-04-16T15:49:13Z")

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Of the smilies we have, I would say that the ones I see used most often are the:  
😉😃🆒😛 (in casual chat) and  
:rolleyes: :dubious: :smack: (in the more serious threads).

Occasionally, you’ll see someone using the 😕 (shortly followed by someone else explaining the whoosh).

I’ve never seen the :mad: used outside of the Pit (or indeed outside of “Outrage Threads”).

I’ve only seen the ☹ used to console others.

Once in a blue moon, you’ll see :eek: in a TMI thread. (sorry, no pun intended)

I don’t think I have ever seen :o used legitimately to mean “I’m embarrassed,” for the obvious reason.

I would like to see the embarrassed and eek smilies redone at the very least. There are some good arguments for adding the “Pukey” (but not puking) smilie that was discussed a while ago. If a non-animated wall smilie could be created, I might vote for that one. The other smilies I’ve heard proposed (og smash, animated, neutrality, etc.) seem (to me) to run counter to the “vibe” of SDMB.

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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:** [April 16, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-more-smilies/399911/45 "2007-04-16T16:10:06Z")

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[QUOTE=JustAnotherGeek]  
The other smilies I’ve heard proposed (… neutrality …) seem (to me) to run counter to the “vibe” of SDMB.  
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Once again the blatant anti-Swiss-American discrimination is displayed. Why must we always be a persecuted minority?

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-more-smilies/399911/46 "2007-04-16T20:45:28Z")

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[QUOTE=Mangetout]  
We need less smilies, can we vote to evict one? I’d like to see this fella take the long walk: :rolleyes:  
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:rolleyes:

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