Author Topic: Emoticons gone MIA? (Read 599 times)

Marlelar · « **on:** July 06, 2015, 11:24:13 PM »

Is it my imagination or do we have fewer emoticons available now?

TKGS · « **Reply #1 on:** July 07, 2015, 06:47:11 AM »

We lost some of the emoticons a while back. For example, there is no dancing banana anymore, which I think was probably one of the most popular.

I think Matthew was having a labor dispute with some of the emoticons who tried to organize through the Teamsters and were demanding a raise to $15.00 an hour. So, the only emoticons we have left are the scabs willing to cross the picket lines.

BTNYC · « **Reply #2 on:** July 07, 2015, 07:42:52 AM »

Best of all, we also lost the "pot smoking" one (much to Roscoe's chagrin, I'm sure.... at least he still has the frying pan one with which to supplement his interminable "E rev around S" posts).

Anyway, the fewer emoticons the better, in my opinion.

Marlelar · « **Reply #3 on:** July 07, 2015, 03:41:10 PM »

Quote from: BTNYC

Best of all, we also lost the "pot smoking" one (much to Roscoe's chagrin, I'm sure.... at least he still has the frying pan one with which to supplement his interminable "E rev around S" posts).

Anyway, the fewer emoticons the better, in my opinion.

I always thought it was a cigar.

Marlelar · « **Reply #4 on:** July 07, 2015, 03:49:29 PM »

Quote from: TKGS

We lost some of the emoticons a while back. For example, there is no dancing banana anymore, which I think was probably one of the most popular.

I think Matthew was having a labor dispute with some of the emoticons who tried to organize through the Teamsters and were demanding a raise to $15.00 an hour. So, the only emoticons we have left are the scabs willing to cross the picket lines.

Dang unions...

BTNYC · « **Reply #5 on:** July 07, 2015, 10:34:52 PM »

Quote from: Marlelar

Quote from: BTNYC
Best of all, we also lost the "pot smoking" one (much to Roscoe's chagrin, I'm sure.... at least he still has the frying pan one with which to supplement his interminable "E rev around S" posts).

Anyway, the fewer emoticons the better, in my opinion.

I always thought it was a cigar.

Yeah. The thuggish miscreants with whom I grew up used to call those kinds of cigars "blunts."

The very name of the emoticon was "smoking pot."

The dancing banana had become synonymous with Frances. Come to think of it, I can't recall the last time I've seen one of her posts. Hope she's well.

MaterDominici · « **Reply #6 on:** July 07, 2015, 11:13:36 PM »

Quote from: TKGS

We lost some of the emoticons a while back. For example, there is no dancing banana anymore, which I think was probably one of the most popular.

I think Matthew was having a labor dispute with some of the emoticons who tried to organize through the Teamsters and were demanding a raise to $15.00 an hour. So, the only emoticons we have left are the scabs willing to cross the picket lines.

Well, I like this answer, but for the much less entertaining variety, Matthew was annoyed that the posting screen kept locking up on him while he was trying to occupy himself at the airport. The pink slips went out the next day.