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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Yep, I have been spending a lot of time casing Cecil Adams' site. What of it?

After all, I found THIS!

Although others invented the smiley, I claim to have perfected it (in conjunction with RW, of course)!

I present the evidence below:

Elvis =

Technically, Elvis isn't a smiley, But I like the look.

Blinky =

Brow =

Grin =

Razzberry =

Razzanim =

Yuckanim =

Smile =

Laugh =

BearLaugh =

Tacogrin =

BunnyGrin =

BunnyShock =

Sadbunn =

Sadbunn1 =

Wink =

Winky =

Wow =

FroGrin =

The following smileys are courtesy of RW himself! He has more, but the ones shown here are the only ones I put on my site. He has a really good one of Kirk that you don't see here.

Confused =

Geordi =

Goofy =

Lol =

Worf =

BorgLaff =

GILaff =

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Posted by Holst on :

You really need to get out more.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

I think the confused smiley is sooooo hilarious! I always get a kick out of it

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

Whoa.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I still don't understand what you did to my Razzanim to make the spittle go all funky...

And, just for good measure, my Pukey (unanimated)...

Argh! The transparency! I thought I had that fixed!

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[This message was edited by TSN on May 02, 1999.]

Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

I suppose it must be the way my paint program revises the pallette when I reduce the colors from 16 million (or therabouts) to 256. I'm tired of chasing that gremlin and leave it to you. I will leave the %$#@ thing the way it is.

--Baloo

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Posted by Xentrick (Member # 64) on :

I was driving on the freeway last week and was passed by a van with several rows of smiley stickers, each one different, in various colors, some wearing hats, glasses, beards, etc.

I remember back in the 70's, way back in the ancient times when gas stations used to have little give-away items if you bought more than a set minimum. We got a whole stack of brown paper lunch bags with "Have A Nice Day" on them.

Never dreamed then that the little things would come back a quarter century later like so many bad pennies.

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

YOU.
NEED.
HELP.

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Jubilee: Thanks for the offer, but I seem to be finding plenty of obscure triviata without any assistance whatsoever.

Rest assured, if I ever decide to recruit an assistant, you will be the first person I contact.

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I just hope that no one in heaven wears stupid T-Shirts that say �I Survived the End of the World and all I got was this crummy T-shirt!�

Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

LMAO @ Baloo

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

My latest, greatest addition to the world of the smiley:

Goes well w/ my sig, eh? :-)

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[This message was edited by TSN on May 06, 1999.]

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

*LOL*

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

There exists a poster or two of "Have a *blank* Day" smilies, with very creative smilies.

including
Have an assimilated day (borged smiley)
Have an assassinated day (smiley with bullethole)
Have a RHPS Day (smiley as Frank N Furter)
Have a Transcendental Day (smiley with 3rd eye)
etc, etc,

I might suggest using that as a reference tool.

That is, if anybody knows what I'm talking about.

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

First of Two, I own the Have a Day and Have a Night posters. They're hanging on my dorm room wall. They're pretty funny...

Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

*has seen First of Two's poster*

There must be a hundred or so on it, by the way. And some are absolutely hilarious.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I've made a slight improvement:

And I found that I have a transparency-corrected version of the razzanim:

Which is a good thing. Because, in attempting to fix the other one, I made it worse than Baloo's version:

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[This message was edited by TSN on May 06, 1999.]

Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Love that Groucho! May I have permission to copy it to my site for future access?

--Baloo

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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

*L* those are great...you guys must have some kind of really hi tech program to make them...or anyway...more hi tech than MS Gif Anim...*L* the one i have :*) Doubt anyone's seen a Vorta smiley, hm? :P Or at very least...a conniving smirk? *LOL*

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Baloo: Of course. Anyone can use my smileys. Hopefully, they'll get incorporated into the Forums when/if yours do... :-)

Weyoun: A Vorta, eh? Hm... I'll have to look into that... :-)
Oh, and I'm using Paint Shop Pro and its Animation Shop. I don't know about everyone else...

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Same thing I'm using. Quite a cost-effective package, eh?

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Cost? Er... Um... *runs away*

Anyway, here's my start on a Vorta smiley, based off the RW Confused smiley. Unfortunately, I can't get the eys right, so he/she/it is blind for the time being...

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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

*L* not bad,TSN. :-) Paint shop pro, eh? :P I downloaded the trial version when my computer totally DIED right at finals last semester but I never tried the animation shop. Think I may copy some good software from my parents home computer this summer....if they have any,that is *L* presently i have the lowly MSPhotoEditor and MSPaint....pleeze...no need to laugh so loud *L*

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