# Whatever happened to... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 19, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360 "2006-08-19T17:43:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dry\_oatmeal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@dry\_oatmeal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dry_oatmeal)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/1 "2006-08-19T17:43:34Z")
The Wally emoticon and the Rabbi emoticon? I haven’t been here in quite some time. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/2 "2006-08-19T18:08:36Z")
> **[Missing smilies](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=383833)** > > We seemed to have lost :wally and Happy Orthodox Jewish guy ;j . What is going on? Oy! ---
**Author:** ![dry\_oatmeal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@dry\_oatmeal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dry_oatmeal)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/3 "2006-08-19T18:58:01Z")
And yet rolleyes remains on the message board? This is patently preposterous. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/4 "2006-08-19T20:21:11Z")
They deleted the custom ones and kept the canned ones. The custom ones require extra work from the technical staff and are not worth the trouble. Why do you have an issue with that? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/5 "2006-08-19T20:32:32Z")
Two down, thirteen to go. Death to all smilies. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/6 "2006-08-19T20:42:23Z")
I don’t understand why you’re bothered by this, since it looks like these smilies were deleted before you joined. So how can you miss them? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/7 "2006-08-19T21:54:21Z")
[All is made clear here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=383833). ---
**Author:** ![Carlyjay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Carlyjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carlyjay)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/8 "2006-08-19T22:04:10Z")
But I still don’t know what a Wally is. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/9 "2006-08-19T22:53:07Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] [All is made clear here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=383833). [/QUOTE] As I said in Post #2. **Carlyjay** , The Wally smily was made in honor of a proflic poster who supposedly died. When more facts came to light, it became clear that he didn’t really die and many of his masterworks were plagiarized anyway. ---
**Author:** ![dry\_oatmeal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@dry\_oatmeal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dry_oatmeal)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/10 "2006-08-20T02:05:40Z")
Wally really isn’t dead so he was someone’s mult/sock/dupe? I’m more bothered by the rolleyes emoticon than any emoticon. You could have a Mario smiley eating pizza saying “ATSA SPICY” and I wouldn’t be offended by it. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/11 "2006-08-20T03:10:37Z")
[QUOTE=dry\_oatmeal] Wally really isn’t dead so he was someone’s mult/sock/dupe? I’m more bothered by the rolleyes emoticon than any emoticon. You could have a Mario smiley eating pizza saying “ATSA SPICY” and I wouldn’t be offended by it. [/QUOTE] :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/12 "2006-08-20T03:27:36Z")
[QUOTE=dry\_oatmeal] I’m more bothered by the rolleyes emoticon than any emoticon. You could have a Mario smiley eating pizza saying “ATSA SPICY” and I wouldn’t be offended by it. [/QUOTE] I’m still wondering why you care, given that you’ve been here only three days. ---
**Author:** ![dry\_oatmeal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@dry\_oatmeal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dry_oatmeal)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/13 "2006-08-20T04:58:08Z")
[QUOTE=Dewey Finn] I’m still wondering why you care, given that you’ve been here only three days. [/QUOTE] I’m still wondering why anyone cares why I care? This forum is about factual answers for questions. Learning about my motives would be completely subjective and offtopic for General Questions. I asked a question. People gave factual answers with cites. Unfortunately I shared my disgust regarding the beloved rolleyes smiley and the reason behind the deletion of two former smilies. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/14 "2006-08-20T05:04:44Z")
[QUOTE=Dewey Finn] I’m still wondering why you care, given that you’ve been here only three days. [/QUOTE] Just because he joined three days ago, doesn’t mean he hasn’t lurked for a while. In any event, I’m on record (in the thread in “About This Message Board”) as being someone who doesn’t care much for rolleyes. It’s usually used as an insult, with post #11 in this thread being a typical example. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/369360/15 "2006-08-20T05:05:14Z")
\ And the factual answer to your question has been answered by this [link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=383833). Any further comments take them to the other thread, please. \