What do the highlighted smilies remind you of?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I noticed in a thread with a spoiler that when you highlight a happy smilie it produces an unhappy smilie. Maybe you all have noticed it long before and and are thinking “so what?” Be that as it may, I thought it was a kind of cool observation.

So… I’ve opened this thread to spread the knowledge that highlighted smilies produce an interesting appearance. Also, what do the various highlighted smilies remind you of?

(In order to provide an easy reference I’ll insert all the smilies in this post. I hope the mods don’t mind, I know they don’t like us to go crazy on the smilies, but I don’t think this will be too many).

:slight_smile: :frowning: :o :smiley: :wink: :stuck_out_tongue: :cool: :rolleyes: :mad: :eek: :confused: ;j :wally :smack: :dubious:

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Whoops! I think I should have placed them each on separate lines, they are kind of hard to see individually.

Big grin smilie looks kind of like he’s trying to take a dump.

Eek! smilie has no eyes.

Mad smilie looks even madder.

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:eek:

I dunno, looks the same to me. . .

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Ah, I killed the surprise smiley?!?!

When you highlight the smiley the eyes turn into plus signs and it looks like it is dead.

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um, I don’t get this.
I am not able to highlight smilies at all.
Not even if I “select all”.
Is this a PC thing or does it have something to do with my browser?

or, am I being wooshed?

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The happy smiley looks glum; the rest just look like space invaders.

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The jewish one (;j) looks like it wants to kill me! I agree with Mangetout that the rest look like space invaders though.

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:dubious:

Looks kind of like he’s got an arm on his back and is reaching up to scratch his forehead :slight_smile:

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Dunno, Bad News Baboon…

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:wally

Looks like I’m being called a putz by a tennis ball.

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I think every browser on every platform handles this differently. Safari on Jaguar doesn’t do anything to the smilies. Who knew? Some browsers will invert the smiley colors and make me look weird. Don’t sweat it, BNB.

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iCab doesn’t do anything (smilies themselves do not invert-highlight. Neither do any other web graphics).

Can those of you who can hightlight smilies also highlight other graphics like the “new thread” button, etc?

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:slight_smile: looks sad highlighted… ;j looks psychotic, :frowning: looks constipated. :dubious: gets a weird dimple.

Yes. Well, I can.

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:cool: On my machine, this one looks like a stereotypical alien, with these hollow eyes.

I can also highlight other stuff too.
BTW Atomic Badger Racing is a great name!

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Hmmm… This is more interesting than I thought! I didn’t realize different browsers handled smilies differently. In fact, now that I highlight the smilies in the your reply section instead of on the screen I see different effects. And when I pass my cursor over certain smilies in the box while the smilie is highlighted it changes.

The happy smilie goes from sad to diabolical.

The sad one goes from kind of wierd (like a superhero’s mask) to really sad.

The big grin smilie goes from slightly embarrassed looking to looking like he’s taking a big dump.

The angry smilie goes from really* angry to a sort of childish angry and disappointed.

Sunglasses starts out basically the same but obscured and then changes to really angry or maybe classic alien look.

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:slight_smile: becomes the evil discolored Asian smilie

;j becomes an evil, discolored Asian smilie with a hat

:rolleyes: becomes an innocent decapitated turtle

:cool: what insomnia4am said: steriotypical orange alien that’s smiling

:mad: becomes an angy six-year-old girl

:dubious: wrinkled smilie with horrific mole–or–wrinkled smilie with only one eyebrow

:wally becomes the smilie shouting ‘putz!’ with disproportionate eyes

:confused: becomes evil discolored Asian smilie with a halo

:stuck_out_tongue: becomes some sort of watermelon

:frowning: does look constipated, atomic badger racing!

and then :o just looks too frightening for words.

Yep.

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This is like watching a TV show and not getting the inside joke. Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Maybe I’m crazy, but :smiley: looks like a mushroom.

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For a minute there, I was going to call you crazy, penny dreadful, but then I saw it–it does look like one of those magic mushrooms. (Think of the white as the stem and the underside of the top section, and then, obviously, the green as the top if you don’t see it). Once you think of it as a mushroom, it actually looks really well drawn, too. Good eye!

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Wow good catch penny dreadful!!! :slight_smile:

Wow this is so crazy, I would have never guessed they changed when highlighted. Very Cool!!!