# Where's Smashie, dammit?!? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 11, 2002, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518 "2002-03-11T06:17:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/1 "2002-03-11T06:17:48Z")
I WANT SMASHIE! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ryoushi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@ryoushi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryoushi)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/2 "2002-03-11T06:41:44Z")
And the smileys we do have are all the same dull yellow colour! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![sirjamesp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@sirjamesp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirjamesp)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/3 "2002-03-11T08:12:02Z")
…but at least they aren’t rolling about all over the shop. Man, that made my eyes spin! I did kind of like the Smashie guy, though - but only while he was a novelty. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/4 "2002-03-11T10:25:31Z")
Smilies that move - ANY smilies that move - are an abomination. Pure and simple. And I like the fact that the new smilies are all the same colour. Let’s keep the twee cutisms to an _absolute_ bare minimum. If they’re there to serve a purpose (as they obstesibly are) then let’s keep that purpose clear and unadorned. A big thankyou to whoever is responsible. pan ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/5 "2002-03-11T10:31:42Z")
I’m with **Kabbes**. Thank the lord for no more animated smilies. I turned off animated graphics on my browser so I wouldn’t have to suffer with the INCESSANT MOVING ROLLING BASHING GRINNING WINKING KILL ME NOW smilies on the temp board. I like the understated pale new smilies. And hey, we still have putz and Jewish guy. ---
**Author:** ![SteveSteve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SteveSteve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveSteve)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/6 "2002-03-11T10:40:17Z")
Speak it brother…or sister, anyway smilies are a necessary evil that exist solely to enable those of us who constantly insult people to not hurt anyones feelings. You don’t need rainbow, smashing, or rolling smilies to convey friendliness, sarcasm, pique or Jewish ancestry.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/7 "2002-03-11T11:11:11Z")
Personally, I plan to borrow a virtual Lee-Enfield from somewhere and hang around the border with the temp board… if I see any smiley waving a gavel at me, I’ll happily put a cyberspace .303 round right between its gormless eyes the minute it crosses into our territory… Ahhh. Good to be back. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/8 "2002-03-11T11:29:23Z")
I’m so glad that there’s NO smashie/bashie/bonky here! He was cute for a few minutes, but that’s about it. I can’t stand the little guy. Imagine a whole “chain gang” of them bashing their way through a post. IIRC, we are able to use a whole lot more than 5 emoticons per post here. Sooner or later, someone would make a post containing a hundred smashies, and make our eyeballs bleed. It’s so pleasant to be able to read a message board that doesn’t make me feel seasick. Smilies that make my monitor pitch and roll are wayyyy to distracting. Please, please no smashie! ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/9 "2002-03-11T12:31:32Z")
Well, I miss the colors ☹ (not the animated ones, mind you) It was like ident-a-feeling! Blue, red, green, you immediately know what the person feels without having to figure out how the pixels lay. Sigh. The :eek: also looks like his eyes are only pupils. It sucks. ---
**Author:** ![im\_a\_loser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/898d66/32.png) [@im\_a\_loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/im_a_loser)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/10 "2002-03-11T12:55:55Z")
Hmmmmmm… far too many antismashites around. I had no prob w/ the little guy, even if he was ‘different’😉 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/11 "2002-03-11T14:33:27Z")
I miss Eek! She was my favourite smilie of all time. She was just so cute and expressive with those eyes. Who’s this nebbish with the pupils? ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/12 "2002-03-11T14:38:35Z")
Without our old colored smilies, this just doesn’t have the same panache. :mad:🆒;):p:(😕 ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/13 "2002-03-11T16:34:47Z")
What about a frozen in time Smashie? Just to remember the hardships we had to endure this past month? ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Rubin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billy_rubin/32/3622_2.png) [@Billy\_Rubin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Rubin)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/14 "2002-03-11T16:47:25Z")
Here’s a second for a non-animated smashie. And a VB code to allow you to change the color of the balance of the smilies. Someone out there has to have the smarts to do that, and it would probably be very useful. A Non Animated Smashie just has too many good uses. b. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/15 "2002-03-11T18:02:08Z")
I third the non-animated smashie. I even put together a sample of what it could look like [here](http://www.goatsoft.com/smashie.gif) … hopefully I’m not breaking any copyrights or anything. Anyway, I think that’s a good way to make everyone happy. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/16 "2002-03-11T20:29:05Z")
I’d rather like the colors back in the smilies. . .however, I’m willing to forsake that in order to be spared the horror of 3,000 moving smilies. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/17 "2002-03-11T20:32:11Z")
But at least now we have a couple options for cleavage smilies: :eek: :eek: :o :o ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/18 "2002-03-11T21:09:37Z")
I don’t mind the same-color non-animated smiles, but Smashie should be back. He’s practically a necessity for Great Debates, dammit! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/19 "2002-03-11T22:45:38Z")
Fuck Smashie and all of his other moving, seizure-inducing little shitball friends. I’m glad he’s gone. And here’s a ‘nea’ vote for the “still life with smashie” icon. I couldn’t stand that other board and I don’t want any remnants of it over here. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518/20 "2002-03-11T23:46:11Z")
[http://www.hastur.com/abyss/smash.gif](http://www.hastur.com/abyss/smash.gif) And yet he lives on! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-smashie-dammit/97518.md?page=2)