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Nominations are hereby called for for the most annoying smiley. Here is mine;




followed narrowly by;

Dear Peter,

I'm so sorry that you find those smileys so annoying.

There, there...

Mike

:cookoo: :ban:

mikenz66 wrote:Dear Peter,

I'm so sorry that you find those smileys so annoying.

There, there...

Mike

Hi Peter,

The smilies don't annoy you, your mind goes out and annoys the smilies.

With Metta,

Guy

I don't know about annoying, but there certainly are a couple of incongruous ones.

Exhibit a)

Exhibit b)

Exhibit c) :ban:

Exhibit d & e)

Exhibit f)


Anyway I'm gonna get back to the and while I try to have a and cultivate the as a foundation for some

and to all.

with metta
Jack

I only miss some!



I could get lost in this one:



I love my evil little fly:



Isn't that cute?

The one with namaste on the other forums is even worse.

These ones:

:cookoo: :ban:

Most of them are one-dimensional and lack subtlety. How often do we really roll on the floor laughing?

I miss the smiley face tipping his hat that the grey forum has.

Guy wrote:Hi Peter,

The smilies don't annoy you, your mind goes out and annoys the smilies.

With Metta,

Guy

Ah yes, The Yogacara Smilie Position. As found in the Bedspring Sutra of Yah Boing.

pink_trike wrote:Most of them are one-dimensional and lack subtlety. How often do we really roll on the floor laughing?

I miss the smiley face tipping his hat that the grey forum has.

Thats true, nothings THAT funny.
Which reminds me of the conversation between Mick Jagger and the Veteren Jazzer George Melly.
" Mick how did your face get so lined ?"
" They are laughter lines George"
" Mick... nothings that funny."

I have decided that I am going to experiment with using smileys completely arbitrarily.

Smileys are the vermin of online communication.
Soon, all we'll be doing is grunting and posting smileys.
It makes my blood run cold thinking that perhaps some of you are already there - beyond help...