BS: Emoticon challenge

Subject: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 01:08 AM

I recently saw Dave Barry's Useful Internet Emoticons (from his book "Dave Barry in Cyberspace"), and I thought it might be interesting to see what new contraptions other people might come up with.

For example, here's one I just came up with:
      

 >:$( 

(angry teenager with pierced nose)

Let 'em rip! ("upright" and "flipped" ones are OK, too)

Aloha,
Mark

PS: I posted that one using the HTML "pre" command, because it looks better that way than it does in the standard Mudcat font. But it puts two blank lines before and after it. There may be a better way to do it. (font=courier?)

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 01:53 AM

Not to encourage such frivolity, but a fellow aircraft engineer used to sign all his email with:

-o-0-o-

which does look a little like a B29 comin' at ya' (if you're using the "right" fonts to read it.) He was a very old engineer.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: mack/misophist
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 02:13 AM

To John in Kansas:

That looks very much like the drawing that accompanied "Kilroy was here" in WW2.

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 03:30 AM

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HERO
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Easy on the Mayo!

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: C-flat
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 04:19 AM

mm ^/._U^.\ mm

"Wot, no emoticons?"

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: C-flat
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 04:28 AM

The face of the "Wot" man peering over a wall was quite popular in the UK years ago and was always followed with the slogan "Wot no......? (fill in appropriate word). I think he originated in the RAF during WW2.

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: C-flat
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 04:32 AM

^______mm^___/._U^.\___mm^______

It works a little better with the wall.

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 06:24 AM

The man looking over the wall was called Chad . (As in "Wot no President?")

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: C-flat
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 07:31 AM

That's it! Thanks McGrath! It's been driving me nuts trying to think of his name.

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 11:16 AM

Flirtatious anorexic woman wearing a Bikini

~(;-)<3=)>==

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 11:16 AM

The image is very familiar, but I never heard the "Wot no" expression, here in Indiana, the US.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 11:21 AM

The man looking over the wall was called "Kilroy" and originates from World War II. They were signed "Kilroy was here."

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: Amos
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 11:23 AM

BWL:

Your visions are leaking agin, man!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 12:31 PM

Well, things vary around the world - but I think it's pretty clear that in their origin at least Kilroy and Chad are totally distinct, the first being American, and thh second being British.

"Kilroy Was Here" so far as I'm aware was never accompanied by that drawing, and dates from after the Yanks came to England; and the chappie looking over the wall was generally referred to as Chad and I think he'd have been making comments on shortages of one sort and another well before the Americans got into the war.

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: michaelr
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 02:13 PM

From my childhood I remember that drawing accompanied by the caption "Kilroy was Here". It was everywhere in the Fifties and early Sixties. I was going to start a Folklore thread to find out its origins.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: GUEST,Chad
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 02:32 PM

There was a lot of time to comment on things before the Americans got into that war - but fair does to them - they've made up for it since.

   .?.
===U===
(vague stab at Chad emiticon- see if you can do better)

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 04:06 PM

Beg to differ, but Kilroy was always accompanied by that drawing. Here are a few images from Google. There are also sites dedicated exclusively to this sketch and name. This one attempts to explain it.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 04:13 PM

As I said, things vary round the world. I've seen a lot of Kilroys write on walls, and never a one with the Chad Drawing.

I suspect Kilroy may have picked it up from his mate Chad on his visit to England, and used it elsewhere.

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 04:52 PM

Maggie, your last link says, "...the cartoon that usually accompanied it..." -- not "always." My strictly uninformed guess would be that (1) Mr. Chad came first, since the wartime shortages predated the entry of the US into the war, (2) The Americans started "Kilroy was here" as a way of making their presence known, and (3) At some point they "adopted" Chad and added him to the Kilroy scrawl.

Of course, I might be wrong, but it makes sense to me.

Now that I've contributed to the creep on my own thread....any more emoticons like Bee-Dubya-Ell's? (Nice one, that.)

Check out the Dave Barry site mentioned above for ideas.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 05:15 PM

Mark, you took more time that I did to read them (I'm supposed to be doing something else today, so I keep my distractions brief!). I remember my mother speaking about this, that she saw it all over the Pacific when she was a WAC and traveling during and right after WWII. The drawing and words were together in her story.

I suppose I could contribute a major topical distraction in the emoticon thread. Let's see, I'll just lean real hard on the keyboard. . .

(o)(o)

[BG]

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 09:10 PM

Eyeballs no doubt.

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 10:04 PM

Just keeping abreast of the topic. ;->

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Aug 03 - 05:17 AM

The original Kilroy was I believe an inspector at a factory, or a shipyard or some such in the USA, and he signed his name on everything that he had inspected. The origins of Chad I can't say, but I seem to remember Watneys Brewery using the character in an ad. years ago.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Aug 03 - 01:52 PM

*<:{)> = Santa Claus.

7:-| = Ronald Reagan

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 24 Aug 03 - 05:39 PM

I like the Reagan one a lot! Have you seen the one for Homer Simpson?

    ~(8^(|)

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: open mike
Date: 24 Aug 03 - 09:53 PM

emoticon site
and here...

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: The Walrus
Date: 25 Aug 03 - 08:45 AM

I seem to remember reading somewhere that 'Chad' had his origins in an RAF technical school.
As I recall the story, a circuit had been drawn on a blackboard , the lecturer was called away and when he returned a section with a capacitor between two resistors had become 'Chad'[1]

Walrus
   
   (o o)
//|||\\    (nearest I could get to a portrait of a walrus)
    V V

[1] At this time, the conventional sign for a resistance was a zig-zag line in the circuit.

Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge
From: The Walrus
Date: 25 Aug 03 - 08:49 AM

OOps unrecognised sybols, it should have read

(o o)
///l\\\    (nearest I could get to a portrait of a walrus)
V V

Walrus