Smileys We'd Like to See

firehorse · Mar 24, 2005

I stick to the smileys on this site and at coolsmilies.net (I tend to think most smiley sites are fronts for spyware). But I can't find a smiley for simply sitting at a computer (though I do love :Hammer:

) or a smiley (I started to write simile) reading a book.

These aren't particularly imaginative examples, but I have a feeling other people can come up with better ones

.

So with that, I pass the puck to you all:

Wandering Sensei · Mar 24, 2005

I'd like to see a

head down on desk emoticon
karate emoticon
meditation emoticon

You're right about the book reading one. That would be very appropriate for a writers' site.

CACTUSWENDY · Mar 24, 2005

I'd like to see one with ears and hair.

JanaLanier · Mar 24, 2005

Firehorse:

or

Sensei:

or

(struck out on the karate guy. I'll keep looking)

Cactus Wendy:

And my personal favorite:

all courtesy of http://pages.prodigy.net/rogerlori1/emoticons/pageindex.htm

William Haskins · Mar 24, 2005

breathe! now push!

i'd like to see one lying on her back, spread-eagle, biting down a washcloth as the pushes a baby smiley from her womb.

it would say much about the cycle of life.

thanks,
william

firehorse · Mar 24, 2005

JanaLanier said:

Hobbes! Jana, you just made my day

And Prodigy seems pretty safe when it comes to viruses and spyware.

SRHowen · Mar 24, 2005

Ok, this is what i came up with for those listed.

Shawn

sgtsdaughter · Mar 24, 2005

obviously, me at finer moments . . .

but i really want to see a smiley flippin' the bird to ya (not that i recommend putting that here). but wouldn't that be great to send to some of those spammers and people who send enless forwards?

JanaLanier · Mar 25, 2005

Shawn, you rule.

Sgtsdaughter, this is NOT directed at you

Not this one neither

sgtsdaughter · Mar 25, 2005

JanaLanier said:
Shawn, you rule.

Sgtsdaughter, this is NOT directed at you

Not this one neither

now that was priceless . . . priceless i tell ya. just the laugh i needed right now.

Nivvie · Mar 26, 2005

Self portrait....

tfdswift · Mar 26, 2005

How's that?
~~Tammy

jackie106 · Mar 26, 2005

Thanks for the link to coolsmilies.net, firehorse!

I love this smiley:

Jackie

CaoPaux · Apr 5, 2005

Someone was looking for a bee:

Here's a couple random ones:

scullars · Apr 5, 2005

Havin' a jamboree! For you music lovers, found these cool smileys over at http://www.absolutepunk.net/misc.php?do=showsmilies and http://www.youbeenx.com/smilies.html#

There are a whole lot more, but alas, nothing with a literary bent...

Compton · Apr 5, 2005

I'd like to see one where the smiley-man is on fire, and screaming, but on the inside you can tell he's still happy.

wurdwise · Apr 5, 2005

paprikapink · Apr 5, 2005

William Haskins said:
i'd like to see [....edited for ah, brevity ......] a baby smiley from her womb.

it would say much about the cycle of life.

thanks,
william

William, that's not where smileys come from. I'll bet that suggestion won you a lot of friends and admirers. Luckily for me, I saw your poetry before I happened upon this thread.

As for the cycle of life. I'm pretty sure that smileys first spawned at Woolworth's. I remember being kinda little, standing next to my mother in the checkout line at Woolworth and looking up at a big yellow balloon with a happy face on it. I knew better than to ask for a balloon. But I did ask my mom, once we were outside, what did it mean? She couldn't say.

-pkpk

sgtsdaughter · Apr 15, 2005

:Smack:

:Spam:

:Cheers: :Cheer:

a little girl wanted to see these . . .

trumancoyote · Apr 15, 2005

William Haskins said:
i'd like to see one lying on her back, spread-eagle, biting down a washcloth as the pushes a baby smiley from her womb.

it would say much about the cycle of life.

thanks,
william

I don't know how to animate and I'm no artist, so this is the best I could do, William:

Celeste · Apr 15, 2005

Here's a link to some cool smilies..

http://pages.prodigy.net/rogerlori1/emoticons/pageindex.htm

Kudra · Apr 15, 2005

Celeste said:

Cute.

watcher · Apr 15, 2005

As for the cycle of life. I'm pretty sure that smileys first spawned at Woolworth's.

That was a good guess... funny.

Does anybody really want to know where they came from?

The smileyface was invented by the owner of the McBeth Corporation a company that manufactured Christian novelties. The novelties used to have the smileyface and the words, "Smile, God Loves You!" (I sometimes wonder if he's been getting paid for all the products it has been on since.)

paprikapink · Apr 15, 2005

Good think you told me because I was going to answer, "Yes, I would like to know from whence they came."

Thanks!

-pkpk

Celeste · Apr 15, 2005

Smileys We'd Like to See

Living the Dream

An old, sappy, and happy one.

Snarling Cur

poet

Living the Dream

Erotica is not a four letter word!

Nearing the end of an era

Snarling Cur

Nearing the end of an era

Rejections, She Wrote.

Hillbilly Queen

Mostly Harmless

Writer/Bibliophile

Bored fanatic

Nearing the end of an era

My Name is Sweet Thing

Back and on track

Bored fanatic