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No, that's a snail eating Smarties. |
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I think "..*" would be more succinct. |
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This doesn't feel original, given the other content on here regarding tumbleweed dispensers (and the ASCII pictures on the "tumbleweed" idea page). |
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I didn't see the ASCII pictures you mean - which were they? |
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BTW, during this weeks "eat sushi, learn stuff"
break I learned that these things are actually
"logograms" like the ancients used to write with
before the alphabet. Emoticons have their lineage
in "determinatives" which are symbols used to
give context to a sentence or to add clarification,
another trick of ancient writing. |
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So reading about emoticons I found my favorite. |
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It's Cartmen from Southpark saying his signature
phrase "Dammit!" Pretty clever that. |
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//This doesn't feel original// |
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Emoticons represent an idea, emotion,
intention...something *else* in other words. This is
every bit as original as other emoticons. Nice, [doc].
I can't wait to see someone use this. |
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Though it is facinating to consider this a huge repeat of
historik writings. |
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+ I like it more than other emoticons! |
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I like it better than some, too. I bunned this one,
but I think we might be able to refine that
tumbleweed a bit. |
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[Max] took it in the right direction, I think, with
more succinct. Most emoticons are pretty self-
explanatory if you just scrunch your eyes up a
little. I'm not sure this one is *quite* half baked. |
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This emoticon would be the perfect annotation for
some of the really bizarre ideas proposed here
(although none come to mind just now). I think it's
worth working on a bit. |
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...¿ (for instance, just to get the weed rolling.) |
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Another possibility. (*/*) |
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I know I sort of abandoned the weed itself, but it's
really the reaction we're aiming for, isn't it [doc]? An
emoticon that actually represents the rolling TW is a
sort of a double metaphor? |
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I don't know, double metaphors confuse and frighten me. Like an unfrozen caveman seeing his first 747. |
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But, that's what I'm saying...Your emoticon
represents (is a metaphor for) a tumbleweed rolling
by, which is a metaphor for the awkwardness
people feel after a lame joke, etc. |
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So, wouldn't it be simpler and more effective to
make an emoticon that just represents the
awkwardness, IOW, a one-level symbol. |
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I still think your idea to create a new emoticon is
great. |
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Yea, I get ya. That could work too. |
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That reads 'glum' to me. I hope not, I bunned the
hell out of this. Perhaps I should have used more
emoticons in my anno. More winkies and smiles,
definitely no tumbleweeds. ;) |
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ACK!!! I'm tumbleweeded [2 fries]! |
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That's a pretty good one. Got the little bounce to it. |
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That was just a suggestion, not a comment. |
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Thank you, [2 fries]. That was weird...I suddenly saw
this Tumbleweed Emoticon in a whole new light, as
its (apparent) target. I like it even better now. |
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(Be careful when you use this thing, people.) |
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I've been using variations of this great emoticon
around the HB (applications abound), but haven't
quite settled on my favorite version yet (no offense
to your original great concept [doc]). There are
many versions of smilies, frowns, etc., so why don't
we just adopt this idea, in general, and use
whichever specific emoticon we prefer? |
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or similar, so that it has a "Ba dum dum, tiss" bounce. |
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Y'all are funny.Very funny. I like this, again. + |
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Tumbleweeds roll past when you make a joke that
falls flat? Must be a different planet. |
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The teller never notices the Tumbleweeds. |
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No, the teller lives on a different planet. |
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//Y'all are funny.Very funny. I like this.// |
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