Author Topic: more standard emoticons? (Read 3576 times)

StCeciliasGirl · « **on:** December 19, 2013, 11:23:48 PM »

#1 Standard smileys, just because they're standard. I'm not sure how your forum works, but with many standard emoticons, they fit in the text without causing an unseemly line break. Note: I'd miss many of the regular ones!! like heretic; I'd rather keep those than change anything! But the standard smiley face is a bit scary-looking to me:

:smile:

Mainly the blue ones. I'm not sure about incorporating emoji, but Facebook and Twitter use them (probably without license; I don't know). They aren't animated; just plain old smiley faces. Here's an emoji page, and surely we don't need all those, but just Microsoft or Google's list of standards (the yellow ones; ignore the poop) might be a consideration:

Just a thought. The rest of the emoticons like arguing, heretic, :scratchchin: are so perfect as is!

#2 Also, I've noticed that if I upload some photos from Imgur, which I know are small (I've uploaded them), the forum defaults to this ginormous size. For example, a tiny c:> cursor image that should be about 40px is this:

^ how do I make that smaller? I've tried various image codes, and I can't make it small.

The code for that particular image is:

Code: [Select]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/J4IYUMd.gif[/IMG]

Thanks for any help; sorry if this doesn't go in General!

Anthony Benedict · « **Reply #1 on:** December 19, 2013, 11:49:43 PM »

That's all way above my pay grade. But if anyone can add them, it would be perfect to have a "caballero" and a "rabbi" emoticon.

Very handy for the duration of reign of Habemus Pampas.

soulguard · « **Reply #2 on:** December 20, 2013, 10:31:20 AM »

Yeah, we need more smileys. :smoke-pot:

claudel · « **Reply #3 on:** December 20, 2013, 01:24:04 PM »

Quote from: Anthony Benedict

… Very handy for the duration of reign of Habemus Pampas.

Very droll. Apt, too, alas.

I dissent from this thread's major premise, however. What is badly needed are fewer emoticons, not more. Would that one day every month could be declared an emoticon-free day!

Perhaps one of our resident Denzigerians would be kind enough to locate and reproduce the paragraph in the Syllabus of Errors that anathematizes emoticons. I'm sure it's in there somewhere. [Picture this last sentence, if you will, illuminated by the rightmost emoticon in the ninth row.]

Merry Christmas to you, AB, and to all.

Napoli · « **Reply #4 on:** December 24, 2013, 11:23:18 PM »

I disagree. I love emoticons. How else can we convey emotion?

Anthony Benedict · « **Reply #5 on:** December 25, 2013, 12:04:44 AM »

Just happened upon this again while idling away a bit of time waiting for Santa. Thus, my apologies for belated best wishes to you, Claudel, for a Merry Christmas, as well.

claudel · « **Reply #6 on:** December 25, 2013, 01:02:16 PM »

Quote from: Napoli

I disagree. I love emoticons. How else can we convey emotion?

I'm trying to picture how much richer the Inferno would be had Dante had access to emoticons.

Neil Obstat · « **Reply #7 on:** December 26, 2013, 03:47:22 AM »

Quote from: claudel

Quote from: Napoli
I disagree. I love emoticons. How else can we convey emotion?

I'm trying to picture how much richer the Inferno would be had Dante had access to emoticons.

I'd like to see what artists of previous centuries would have had for smileys.

I've had the same problem as StCeciliasGirl in the image sizes. And example is this Saint Patrick smiley which looks really good when it's about the size of the HUGE font size:

Graham · « **Reply #8 on:** December 26, 2013, 10:05:05 AM »

Quote from: claudel

Quote from: Napoli
I disagree. I love emoticons. How else can we convey emotion?

I'm trying to picture how much richer the Inferno would be had Dante had access to emoticons.

Longfellow's little known third edition:

Midway upon the journey :kick-can: of our life
I found myself within a forest dark, :furtive: :tinfoil:
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
What was this forest savage :dwarf:, rough :ape:, and stern, :judge:
Which in the very thought renews the fear. :faint:
So bitter is it :barf:, death is little more;
But of the good to treat, :dancing-banana: which there I found,
Speak :reporter: will I of the other things I saw there. :cool:
:confused1: I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
So full was I of slumber

at the moment
In which I had abandoned the true way.

claudel · « **Reply #9 on:** December 26, 2013, 04:29:06 PM »

Quote from: Graham

… Longfellow's little known third edition:

Midway upon the journey :kick-can: of our life …

I can't deny I'm impressed—at least after a fashion—by this "fresh" approach to a classic, and I'm sure Longfellow's reaction to your bibliographic find would be something posterity would pay cash money to get a look at. Yet I remain on the fence.

No offense meant to any fans of the dancing banana, Frances especially, but I require a good deal more convincing that it can adequately stand in for the kind of manuscript illumination one finds in, e.g., the Très riches heures de Jean, duc de Berry.

Graham · « **Reply #10 on:** December 29, 2013, 08:53:49 PM »

Quote from: claudel

Quote from: Graham
… Longfellow's little known third edition:

Midway upon the journey :kick-can: of our life …

I can't deny I'm impressed—at least after a fashion—by this "fresh" approach to a classic, and I'm sure Longfellow's reaction to your bibliographic find would be something posterity would pay cash money to get a look at. Yet I remain on the fence.

No offense meant to any fans of the dancing banana, Frances especially, but I require a good deal more convincing that it can adequately stand in for the kind of manuscript illumination one finds in, e.g., the Très riches heures de Jean, duc de Berry.

Then you simply must read the Paradiso of the same edition. He made masterful and copious use of dancing bananas to capture the ecstasy of the beatific vision. Of course, to achieve full poetic effect, the verses must be read aloud, with syllables stressed at random while the emoticons are physically mimicked.

:dancing-banana: :dancing-banana: :dancing-banana:

claudel · « **Reply #11 on:** December 29, 2013, 09:09:00 PM »

Quote from: Graham

… with syllables stressed at random while the emoticons are physically mimicked.

:dancing-banana: :dancing-banana: :dancing-banana:

I hope to goodness that you expect the mimicking to be done by someone else if I'm to be the reader! My remaining time on the planet is already short. I'm not convinced that abbreviating it still further by giving your suggestion a try is a price worth paying. Besides, who but someone as limber as a whirling dervish could do justice to a dancing emoticon accompanying "the love that moves the sun and the other stars"?

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #12 on:** December 29, 2013, 09:59:08 PM »

Quote from: Neil Obstat

Quote from: claudel
Quote from: Napoli
I disagree. I love emoticons. How else can we convey emotion?

I'm trying to picture how much richer the Inferno would be had Dante had access to emoticons.

I'd like to see what artists of previous centuries would have had for smileys.

I've had the same problem as StCeciliasGirl in the image sizes. And example is this Saint Patrick smiley which looks really good when it's about the size of the HUGE font size:

Lol. I love that smiley.