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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 .
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 "
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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. Posts: 1001 | Registered: Dec 2002
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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.
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.
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