...or I will send a pack of rabid badgers to your house to devour you.
You have been warned!
yrs,
Storm Saxon, Esq., Curmudgeon
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
???
Stormy, he's ALWAYS done that! What's the big deal?
Rivka Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
Will you be selling tickets to the devouring?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
See? I do post in threads with my name in them.
Hobbes Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
My eyes! My beautiful eyes! Ack!
I'll get you smurfs! *shakes fist*
[ April 22, 2004, 05:32 PM: Message edited by: Storm Saxon ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
SS,
I will join you in battle against smilie use. I think we need a name for our organization, though, if there isn't one already.
FROWNS:
Frequent Requesters of Worldwide Nixing of Smilies
Liz, Curmudgeonly nonuser, ever, of smilies, and also refuser of using those lol kinds of abbreviations
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
--I--
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Rivka's right, I've been doing this long before you youngins posted your first fluff. Now get off my lawn!
Hobbes Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Ah, Mack, it's been so long!
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Elizabeth, smiley *use* is one thing, but smiley abuse? That's just wrong on so many levels.
Thank Bob they don't allow gif signatures and the like on this forum, or avatars for that matter. He'd probably have a kitten hanging from a tree with the caption 'Hang in there!'--Hobbes
*shudder*
[ April 22, 2004, 06:22 PM: Message edited by: Storm Saxon ]
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I never use the "Hobbes " as a sig, I insist on typing it out each and evertime, all posts and e-mails. Besides, my avatar is far cuter than that.
Hobbes Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Hobbes, I can only fight evil one smiley abuser at a time. It takes me a while to work my way around to all the world's evil doers.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Well I still haven't heard what wrong with my sig on this forum besides the fact that there's a smilie in it.
Hobbes Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
You know, Stormy, I feel that in order for a true revolution to occur, we need to go all the way. Accept no smilies whatsoever. I am an extremist, but how else can we push forward as humans if someone isn't here to hold the line. You let one smilie in, and the next thing you know, they have taken over.
Elizabeth, FROWNS member
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
Poor , one night, he really wanted to go to the with the other kids from school, but his mom got with him for not finishing his homework. So he worked hard to finish his homework without being a . Once his mom , he decided to sneak out and go to the party. But she woke up and gave him a stern . He was so sad, he .
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Stormy, I made this thread, like, two years ago. To no avail.
You just have to let some things be, and then torture the offenders in secret.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
As I recall Ralphie, you thought my sig was fine. I personally think it is, I mean come on, what's so awful about having my name followed by a little yellow face smiling at you?
Hobbes Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Storm, you could always retaliate.
As a self-declared curmudgeon, you could sign off with one of these:
in each and every post.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Sometimes you just have to beat the particularly slow ones, Ralphie.
And sometimes...well, sometimes there's just no hope for the poor bastards and it's best to just give the offender a rat poison coated copy of 'Family Circus' and just get them out of the gene pool before their sickness spreads.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
quote: As I recall Ralphie, you thought my sig was fine
Didn't I merely acquisce?
I don't have much of a memory for... stuff.
[ April 22, 2004, 05:47 PM: Message edited by: Ralphie ]
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
--I--
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I'm unclear on who Mack is currently flipping off, but since she never agreed to flip me off at WenchCon and Nate and I gave her a homie poster, I'm going to assume it's not me.
Hobbes Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Don't be so sure, smilie-man.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
But if I can't trust Mack, who can I trust?
Hobbes Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
@ Stormy @ Stormy some more
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
For the most part, the use of smilies here has improved a LOT. No longer am I attacked by millions of bouncing multi-colored heads everytime I open a thread.
Once I learned not to read it as part of his posts (which can be a bit jarring in some threads), Hobbes smiley stopped bothering me. In fact, I sort of like it now.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
I don't mind the smile, but it's sort of disorienting when he says something sad, like:
"Hundreds of people died today in an explosion just a few miles from my house.
Hobbes "
[ April 22, 2004, 06:38 PM: Message edited by: Da_Goat ]
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Yep. Or 'These badgers are gnawing off my leg. Won't someone call them off?'
--Hobbes Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Hobbes Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Mushroom mushroom!
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Maybe we should start an anti-smile campaign.
Like this.
imogen Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Will you guys take a step back about 6 months? REMEMBER when we went through this and hurt the feelings of a gazillion people? REMEMBER when a few of us shouted that it wasn't for anyone but the mods to tell other people how to post?
Hm. I guess no one does! But at least I'm retaining some stability in my life as the Hatrack cycle continues, complete and uninhibited.
Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
This isn't the same. Storm is ribbing Hobbes good naturedly; I doubt Hobbes is offended. Unlike the smilie debate, nobody is suggesting that dozens of Hatrackers have no life, because the use smilies, and that they should go to Teen Hatrack, aka PWEB.
Actually, this is more like the point on the cycle where John or somebody went after TomDavidson's use of "j/k "
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
But the "j/k" campaign worked, didn't it?
imogen
(I'm just trying out different ones)
Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
What I think was funny as heck is when Ralphie and I brought it back this summer, as a protest against people who took stuff too seriously. Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
We made a pact for 24 full hours to work j/k into each and every post.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
What a pity I missed it.
imogen Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Actually, I think my last signature was too cheerful.
Back to the classics.
imogen Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
Yeah. I was wondering.
-Icarus Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
*snort*
Da_Goat, you do have a point there. I giggled at that despite my overwhelming tendency to take things too seriously. j/k
[ April 22, 2004, 09:39 PM: Message edited by: Narnia ]
Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
Alright, that's it. We should all agree to sign all our posts with a sig and an unhappy emoticon for at least a day!
-Icarus Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Go for it. But then don't complain about mine . . .
Rivka Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Wow. You guys really care a lot about my sig. I'm flattered really. I feel like I should have an acceptance speach involving my stellar crew and hairstylist who all worked around the clock to bring "Hobbes's Sig: the implementation" and perhaps break down crying while giving it.
Hobbes Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
quote: unhappy emoticon
I guess if you take the view that the gay train are jumping up and down because they're forced to spend an eternity standing on red-hot coals then it's kind of unhappy.
imogen Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
Sheesh, rivka. I found one of your hot-buttons, huh?
-Icarus Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
If you had REALLY pushed a button, I'd be signing posts like this:
Rivka Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Dare you.
I bet by the end of the day even you will be heartily sick of the little dancing colours...
imogen Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I must admit that your new sig is quite disconcerting imogen. *giggle* It is!! Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Yeah, I actually had to restrain myself from posting on a few threads - I thought it could lead to problems.
imogen Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote: Dare you.
I bet by the end of the day even you will be heartily sick of the little dancing colours...
Oh, honey, you don't wanna do that.
On my other forum, threads full of the little dancing smilies (and many other gyrating little fellows -- we can import images over there, and have more built-ins too) are quite common.
I think my threshold for smilies is many times higher than anyone else's here.
Rivka Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
rivka: staring at the cheering line actually makes me feel a little better. So keep 'em coming I've been having that weird lactic-acid-muscle-fatigue feeling you get when you're stressed/anxious/low-on-sleep. Mmm, exam tomorrow.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
A high smilie-threshold, huh?
You're not colour blind, are you?
imogen Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Suneun, I'm glad you like my little rainbow fellows.
imogen, nope. Want me to make some rainbow totems?
Rivka Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I guess the benefit of your signature is I can amuse myself by lining up their little hands with the bottom of the screen and watching the odd wriggle that occurs.
Yes, I'm at work.
imogen Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
imogen. it's called the Gay Train. Get it right.
-Icarus
[ April 22, 2004, 10:06 PM: Message edited by: Megachirops ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Imogen, As a founding member of FROWNS, I really like your new signature, even though it is still, technically, a smiley.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Actually, I thought it was the Gay Train Doomed to Eternal Torment on Hot Coals. Or was that the party one?
It's too confusing.
imogen Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
Get with the program, Elizabeth!
-Icarus Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
Hot Coals is the party one. The Gay Train is the wave . . . I had a hand in naming it (along with Ralphie).
-Icarus Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Ok. I'll stick with Ralphie and Icarus Pre-Approved Names from now on.
Wouldn't want to rock the boat or anything.
imogen Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
Darn straight. Er, you know what I mean.
-Icarus Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
You changed your sig? Or is for you and for Icarus? I'm baffled by it all. I'm going to start looking at the smileys in the sig instead of names to figure out who people are.
Narnia Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
Should I settle on just one? If so, I will use . I just thought it might be easier to be context specific. But I guess that wouldn't be a true parody, then. Okay. is mine.
-Icarus Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Wow. If you look at the page with all of the synchronized , it's pretty hypnotic.
Narnia Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Listen, They are all subcategories under the category of "smiley," whether they are smiley or frowney.(frownie?) We at F.R.O.W.N.S. frown on all of them.
edited to add periods for a more professional look.
[ April 22, 2004, 10:22 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
You.Are.Get.Ting.Sleep.Y.
It's a little too metronome-like to be truly hypnotic - but it certainly is distracting!
imogen Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Does Hobbes really sign off every post with -Hobbes ?
I know he likes smilies, he is known for it, and has started smiley threads in the past.
But, I have to admit that, until this thread was started, I never even noticed that Hobbes ends every post with -Hobbes
**Ela** Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
He sure does.
Check out his thread on the North Korea train crash for an example of how it can be quite surreal.
imogen Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
This isn't exactly the first time I've been told to stop and I doubt it'll be the last, but I'm not going to stop. I've been doing this for four years and I'm going to keep doing it. Only thing you are capable of doing about it is making fun of me, which you already are.
Yah, like that would really stop me.
Hobbes Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
Silly Hobbes. Do you really think this is about YOU?
-Icarus Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Hey, I don't even want you to stop.
I'm just enjoying my new signature.
imogen Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
But..but... my names in the title. *Little puppy dog face*
Hobbes Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I don't understand way saxon is getting so het up about this. (just kidding!) $$$Storm Saxon$$$
Edit: after inventing the new dollar signs hug, I mispell Saxon. Now that almost warrants a wallbash. But not quite.
[ April 22, 2004, 10:31 PM: Message edited by: pooka ]
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*pat pat* It was about you, Hobbes. But like most Hatrack threads, it has evolved into something entirely different.
Rivka Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Hobbes, though you are definitely on F.R.O.W.N.'s list, you are one of the least of our worries. I hope you know I am totally kidding, and that smiley usage is not all that important to me. If it is to you, and my words hurt you at all, please tell me and I will stop immediately.
Also, if Imogen does not stop using that frownie sig, I am going to bust a gut laughing.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
It is quite fun, isn't it?
It is however, a limited edition signature... so tomorrow you'll be safe.
imogen Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Good, because I really am going to hurt myself laughing. It just hit my funny bone.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
There's something humerus about that.
Rivka Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
*groan*
Try as I may, I can't come up with an appropriate response.
imogen Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
That was such a bad joke rivka.
**Ela** Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
That joke hinged on way too much elbow grease, Rivka.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
You know one of the things I love about Hatrack? People GET my bad science/bio/etc. puns!
Rivka Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
If I were to start using an emoticon in my signature, it would just replace my "O"--and I think I'd change it depending on the mood of the post, too.
phelia
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Oh, man, Smileyfacephelia, that is too much. Now everyone will replace an O in their name with an emoticon. You are on the F.R.O.W.N. list, for sure.
I refuse to use emoticons, even when discussing specific emoticon usage.
Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
Silly Ophelia. You're supposed to use an unhappy smiley.
-Icarus Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
!.! <- look, it's a bunny.
Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
*snort*
-Icarus Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
I'm sorry, Icky; I was confused.
phelia
Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
And Elizabeth, it really only works for names that begin with O. I don't think there are that many of us . . .
phelia
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
You are just baiting me, Rollingeyessmileyphelia. You are trying to get me to prove that I could put a smiley face in the middle of the name. I will not fall for it. I will never use a smiley.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
In the middle of a name? Like what? Like, oh, maybe . . . F.R. .W.N.?
Rivka Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
ha ha ha. You are on the list in triplicate, Missy!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Only in triplicate???
I'm definitely going to have to try harder.
Rivka Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
quote:I don't understand way saxon is getting so het up about this. (just kidding!)
It's like you people want me to go berserk. Why do you folks hate me so much? What did I ever do to you?
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Oops. Wrong thread. Sorry, ladies.
afr Posted by the perpetual newby (Member # 6468) on :
Rivka, I to your superiour use of smileys, and will now begin signing off as follows:
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
OOOhhhhh. Signing off with the hug emoticon. That's really really going to put you on the hit list.
Narnia Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
You guys are all werid.
Hobbes Posted by the perpetual newby (Member # 6468) on :
I made the hit list on my fifth post? I feel so honored, so strangely warm inside
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Not only that, but your status changed to Member. Congratulations, we all trust you now. *pat pat*
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Hobbes, the "weird" coming from you is a compliment...and you can take that as a compliment if you want.
Narnia (<---this is a great idea!!)
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Yes, yes we are.
Weird, that is.
imogen Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I don't think being so angry all the time is good for your blood pressure Imogen.
Hobbes Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
quote:You guys are all werid.
You know, I think Hobbes types out his name every post in an effort to force the correct spelling into his brain.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I wouldn't bet against, just be happy that I think well enough of you as to remember how to spell your name. Frisco.
Though I have to admit, I'm not sure how that quote had anything to do with what you said after it.
Hobbes Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
That's why you're werid, Hobbes.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
You mean 'cause I can spell Frisco?
Hobbes Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
quote: I don't think being so angry all the time is good for your blood pressure Imogen.
Actually, it's strangely relaxing.
imogen Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
I don't know about the rest of you, but if rivka keeps signing her posts with I am going to go over there and bop her one myself.
**Ela** Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Ela, You have no right making fun if Rivka, if you use a smiley in your own signature.
(Puts Ela on F.R.O.W.N.S. hit list)
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
::Puts Elizabeth on Smiley hit list.
**Ela** Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
You know, I LIKE the smile on Hobbes' sig, if only because he's the only one who really does it. If everyone did, it would get annoying. But the smile makes me think of Hobbes as a happy boy! It makes me let him get away with more. Like he always means to be kind.
PSI Telep rt
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Really, Ela?
YES! Ela's coming to visit!
Rivka Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
I wanna try! I wanna try!
MEC Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
I think this thread has backfired on its originator.
Frankenstein!
Yank
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
quote:You mean 'cause I can spell Frisco?
That's really not that hard. F-R-I-S-C-O. See?
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
I'm still waiting for TomD to chip in with "Well, back in the days when we used to carve out primitive letters into stone with crude tools, signatures were needed to understand who the post was from. Nowadays it's just gratuitous"
Or some such nonsense .
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Yank,
I have no illusions about who my audience is and who I am in relation to the forum. This thread is really just a goofy thread for me to have fun teasing Hobbes in. He's a good guy.
The interesting thing is that this thread has caused people to change how they post outside the thread. I figure people are losing about an hour of their life each week just typing in sigs now. Ha. Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
quote:Hot Coals is the party one. The Gay Train is the wave . . . I had a hand in naming it (along with Ralphie)
OH OH! Stealing credit for my naming of The Gay Train, are we?
Had a hand, indeed!
Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
<----- Fluff And so, yes, I was the one who pointed out the similarity to a train.
You get credit for "gay."
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Really, Ela?
YES! Ela's coming to visit!
Heh. Wish I could. Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Storm Saxon,
It is my sad but necessary duty to put you at the top of the F.R.O.W.N.S. hit list.
How could you, sirrah?
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Okay, Icarus.
I'll give you the "train" bit.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Now this is good smilies.
imogen Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
Thanks for digging this up imogen Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
So's this. Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Smilies! Bah, humbug!
p.s.
I must say, seeing ye olde Mackillian fingyr yf doom brought a tear to mine eye. How long has it been since she flipped someone off? Too long, I say.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
this place had like one good smiley and i tried to use it once and it vanished.
It was like a man-goat devil thing.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Storm Saxon: I must say, seeing ye olde Mackillian fingyr yf doom brought a tear to mine eye. How long has it been since she flipped someone off? Too long, I say.
She does it all the time. She just doesn't post much on Hatrack any more, so we don't feel the love.
Rivka Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: this place had like one good smiley and i tried to use it once and it vanished.
It was like a man-goat devil thing.
You seem to have some confusion about the notions of "good" and "evil."
![[The Wave]](graemlins/thewave.gif)
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
![[Wink]](wink.gif)
![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
![[Cool]](cool.gif)
![[Laugh]](graemlins/laugh.gif)
![[ROFL]](graemlins/rofl.gif)
![[Kiss]](graemlins/kiss.gif)
![[Frown]](frown.gif)
, one night, he really wanted to go to the ![[Party]](graemlins/party.gif)
with the other kids from school, but his mom got ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
with him for not finishing his homework. So he worked hard to finish his homework without being a ![[Grumble]](graemlins/grumble.gif)
. Once his mom ![[Sleep]](graemlins/sleep.gif)
, he decided to sneak out and go to the party. But she woke up and gave him a stern ![[No No]](graemlins/nono.gif)
. He was so sad, he ![[Cry]](graemlins/cry.gif)
.![[Hat]](graemlins/hat.gif)
![[Evil Laugh]](graemlins/evillaugh.gif)
![[Confused]](confused.gif)
![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
![[Evil]](graemlins/evil.gif)
![[Dont Know]](graemlins/dontknow.gif)
![[Embarrassed]](redface.gif)
phelia
![[Blushing]](graemlins/blushing.gif)
![[Hail]](graemlins/hail.gif)
to your superiour use of smileys, and will now begin signing off as follows:![[Group Hug]](graemlins/grouphug.gif)
![[Wave]](graemlins/wave.gif)
![[Taunt]](graemlins/taunt.gif)