Emoticons.

[trekkiedane]

We've all got 'em, some use 'em, and some even collect 'em...

In this thread I suggest to those of us who collect emoticons that we can share them with each other.

P.S.: Please only post emoticons that look good on any background colour...
This:

rather than this:

And, please, none of that white fluff left over from a bad removal of a white background.
Like this:

Do feel free to post unfinished projects of you own, like this one of mine:

And anything you might have found since we last had one of these threads.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Oh, you're gonna regret starting this thread.

I have more, if you guys want.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Oh, you're gonna regret starting this thread.

I've long thought the BBS needed an Andorian version of this.

 

[Rhaven]

Hope this works:

oh well i'll try from home

 

[auntiehill]

 

[trekkiedane]

Oooh, that's a great dancing banana - and I like the stormy one and the cake-eater.

Oh, you're gonna regret starting this thread.

Oh

I have more, if you guys want.

Bring it on!

 

[kirsten187]

Where do you get all of those from?!

 

[trekkiedane]

Where do you get all of those from?!

Around the net, threads like this one, tweaking something that exists to make a point of your own, make them from scratch... the possibilities are endless!

This, for instance,

Is something I found somewhere and then made into a MIB-flasher emoticon.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

[yt]www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAdUcp8u3zQ[/yt]

 

[trekkiedane]

Yes there is:

 

[thestrangequark]

Oh, you're gonna regret starting this thread.

I've long thought the BBS needed an Andorian version of this.

His hands have been glued to the window and he can't get them off!!!


Overall I like them, but there are a few that annoy me. I particularly hate when it is used in response to another person's post (as opposed to a ridiculous news headline or something). It is just rude and childish.

It is simple, but I really like

 

[trekkiedane]

It is simple, but I really like

Ah, but the 'big grin' is a whole family of emoticons...

 

[kirsten187]

Hmm, I have no idea how to make these things

 

[trekkiedane]

^tweaking them is just (very) small scale photomanipulation -use PS or The Gimp or whatever you have.

Or you can draw them in whichever app you have to draw in.

 

[B.J.]

Not sure if you'd really call this an emoticon, but it certainly works for some situations:

 

[trekkiedane]

Exploding emoticons do exist -and that's a nice one

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[Gary Mitchell]

 

[RJDiogenes]

I love Smilies. I look at them as a modern revival of hieroglyphics.

Some of my favorites include:

And, of course:

I've been drawing that one in birthday cards for decades. At some point it occurred to me to scan it and use it online, too.

 

[trekkiedane]

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That's just creepy!

But you're not the only person on here with a personalized emoticon.

 

[auntiehill]

Nice SG1 emoticons!

I only have this one:

Some other favorites: