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An emoticon which indicates that the user is a Halfbaker.
Can be tagged onto or embedded in normal messages to discreetly indicate to the recipient that the sender is a 'Baker without being overly self-promoting.
May promote real world kinship between Bakers, or more likely even more virulent
off-Bakery flame wars.
The emoticon should net unduly differ from existing emoticons and should somehow convey the fishbone/croissant duality.
:$? is offered as a starting point, the $ representing the fishbone and the "?" the croissant"
It is recognized that this idea may be construed as a "call-for-list" but this is not the intention.
[marked-for-amendment- subject-to-annotations]
HB favicon
http://www.halfbakery.com/favicon.ico
Just to remind you about the ico. [Jinbish, Oct 28 2009]
A bunch of fish emoticons
http://www.muller-g....com/noturning.html
[MisterQED, Oct 28 2009]
West Ham
http://www.westhamf....uk/forum/index.php
I don't actually know anything about the football, just to debias the whole Totters thing - sheesh. [zen_tom, Oct 29 2009]
Leyton Orient
http://www.leytonor...orum.asp?FORUM_ID=1
Further debiasment [zen_tom, Oct 29 2009]
[link]
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I really like this idea for some reason [] |
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I'm proud to be one of you nut cases. I'd show it off
with glee [+] |
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I like this as I have often wondered if I had run into Bakers on different sites under different user names. |
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I'd suggest [:+-], as it includes the [] of names the ":" of a standard emoticon and the "+-" of bone and bun, and it looks like a face. The downside is it may be in use somewhere, but Google didn't find it. |
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Plus it looks like a lego man, and legos are the building
block of the world. |
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Isn't that the internationally recognised emoticon for people who only
have half a face? |
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Thanks, [Jinbish], but something that can be represented in crude ASCII symbols is needed. |
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the "G" as the croissant and the "#" as a crunched piscine skeleton... there has to be something in Unicode that can get much closer, though. |
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@# - though the @ is more a 'danish' thing |
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[@#] <--- I like, but it begs questions. |
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Yep, I understand [8th], just pointing out, that's all. |
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I went with [] as the square brackets denote almost all hb specific stuff, but [:+-] is cleverer and cuter. It's also a little impractical and inefficient if you have to type it fast, so it brings some of the spirit of the bakery along with it. |
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!:o(
I think I just invented the emoticon for a comb-over. The new international symbol for a tragically bad idea. That's got to be worth something, right? |
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ø (alt o on a mac) looks like a mini saturn |
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Are you trying to get one over on me, Ian? |
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I've been absent from this place for about a year. I drifted away into the murky world of football (soccer) forums. |
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Good god. I've been a pedant trapped in a straight-jacket & one of those ball things that those people put in their mouths. You know. |
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To paraphrase the majority, it's been to much too take. |
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Early on, I foolishly suggested a correction to someone's diction/grammar/spelling (I can't remember which), and I was shot down in flames. It's like being back in school when I was picked on because I was bright. I had to dumb down then, and I'm having to dumb down now. For fuck's sake. What a load of bollocks. So I think I might come back, if that's OK with you. If you've never heard of me but still don't object, that's cool too. |
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I was on the aforementioned football forum, and in response to a witty comment, someone congratulated the poster with the single word 'Croissant'. I had no emoticon to call upon, so I had to ask straight out 'Are you a 'baker?'
I had no reply from him, but another user then revealed themselves. So in theory, there are at least three 'bakers on the Tottenham Hotspur 606 message board, which I think is pretty impressive coverage. I'd always felt the HB was a niche, and it always will be. But maybe now it's a very large niche. |
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So in short (sorry, I'm totally wired right now and a little bit chatty), I think it's a very good idea. |
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Welcome back. Beer's in the fridge. |
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[:+-] gets me going. How about its ugly twin [:-+] |
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Cheers Wags. It's going to be hard to stop using acronyms though LOL |
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With regard to this idea, I think [+] is the most logical emoticon, if it's not taken. |
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"C" has much merit for representing a croissant .... |
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Given the HalfBakery's sideways view of reality, how about something like |
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A sort of backwards smuiley ? |
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C means croissant, B means bone, and it's back to front. |
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Also it seems to be winking .... |
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// trapped in a straight-jacket & one of those ball things that those people put in their mouths. You know. // |
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Where was this ? Was it expensive ? Did it hurt, or did you have to pay extra for that ? |
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Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think it has to be over-complicated. |
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The artwork above is, as far as I know, copyright of [UnaBubba] and I don't apologise for stealing it in order to highlight the over-complicated beauty of it. It certainly has my vote. Even if that means I have to tape it to my screen as a reminder. |
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actually.5HB is pretty commonly used here. When one hb'er went to another sight and used it in his name I knew what it meant. edit: oops its not an emoticon, sorry |
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Naah, that's rubbish. <º))))>< , now that would be good. |
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8th, it's people like you who should be running the country. |
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I liked the fish, but it is far from unique, see link. The HB is nothing if not unique. Also it is mildly religious.
So I'm still voting for [:+-] |
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I thought he was calling me, but in a dyslexic manner. |
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[jtp], I'm on the Spurs 606 an' all. Not seen any croissants mind. Will leave them around from now on. |
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// I've been a pedant trapped//
//it's been to much too take.// |
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You're back in the HB and among friends. Now let your pedant free!
sp. times two/to/too. |
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If they come back with a big wooden cross and some nails, start running. Public opinion is so fickle. |
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//people like you who should be running the country. // |
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Soon, we will be. Resistance is Futile. |
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As if a West Ham fan could have the imagination or wit to be a
halfbaker. Shame on you [zen_tom]. I know you live East, but that's
not an excuse. |
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//running the country//
//we will be// |
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Perhaps - more chance of that than seeing them just run. (Think about it, teleporting notwithstanding, when was the last time you saw a Borg move any faster than a sloth with a limp? It might be an inexorable, inevitable, doom-bringing shamble - but it's not going to win any Olympic medals) |
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They're just Daleks who climb stairs. |
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Come over here and say that..... you want to make something of it ? Eh ? Eh ? |
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// it's not going to win any Olympic medals // |
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"Meedaals ? Hwe doan' need no steenking Meedaals !" |
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hahahaha. I'm gonna use that one. Good HB analogy too. |
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The suspense is killing me. I think I'll check back in later when you all have settled on the damn thing. |
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Oh, and I vote on the combover. |
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I like [:+-] although I would have to admit that my need for a Halfbakery emoticon is pretty limited. |
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I think it needs to be something much more discrete... I'd vote for a special version of a universal typeface like Helvetica (that only Halfbakers can download) and has something like one single letter e on each page of text become "filled in". |
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Disctrete, as in a single, different letter 'e' ; and discreet, as in only one hidden among many. |
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I would like to hear jutta's input. (And Hi there [jtp],
welcome back. Now get that football outta your ear
and stop leaving us for so long and get back to
baking.) |
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<Assembled Neophytes wait patiently with eyes downcast for She Who Must Be Obeyed to pronounce> |
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It's a bit like a smiling guy with a big nose and lines on his forehead:
[MfD] |
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Is there a real world equivalent of this, such as a bun or bone lapel pin? |
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What is this "real world" of which you speak ? |
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I was referring to the rest of the internet, beyond halfbakery.com - my apologies, I won't do it again. |
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Please, keep your personal problems out of the HB, OK ? |
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><((((-> zzZ Sleepy
><((((×> Drunk
><((((O> Baby eyed
><((((~> Chortle
><((((³> Smug
><(((8> Looking at it sideways
><((((ß> Looking through rose coloured glasses
><((((%> Confused
><((((.> Looking it up
><((((+> Slightly under the influence
><((((O.> Really?
><((((¸> Drunken stupor
><((((»> Intense
><((((ò> Slightly miffed
><((((ð> Really miffed
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Apologies to UB for defacing his fish. |
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