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23 Aug 03 - 01:08 AM (#1006835) Subject: BS: Emoticon challenge From: Mark Cohen 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?) |
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23 Aug 03 - 01:53 AM (#1006839) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: JohnInKansas 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 |
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23 Aug 03 - 02:13 AM (#1006844) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: mack/misophist To John in Kansas: That looks very much like the drawing that accompanied "Kilroy was here" in WW2. |
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23 Aug 03 - 03:30 AM (#1006859) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: John MacKenzie ==== HERO ==== Easy on the Mayo! Giok |
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23 Aug 03 - 04:19 AM (#1006870) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: C-flat mm /.U.\ mm "Wot, no emoticons?" |
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23 Aug 03 - 04:28 AM (#1006874) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: C-flat 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. |
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23 Aug 03 - 04:32 AM (#1006875) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: C-flat ______mm___/.U.\___mm______ It works a little better with the wall. |
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23 Aug 03 - 06:24 AM (#1006894) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: McGrath of Harlow The man looking over the wall was called Chad . (As in "Wot no President?") |
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23 Aug 03 - 07:31 AM (#1006914) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: C-flat That's it! Thanks McGrath! It's been driving me nuts trying to think of his name. |
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23 Aug 03 - 11:16 AM (#1006992) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: Bee-dubya-ell Flirtatious anorexic woman wearing a Bikini ~(;-)<3=)>== |
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23 Aug 03 - 11:16 AM (#1006993) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: Uncle_DaveO The image is very familiar, but I never heard the "Wot no" expression, here in Indiana, the US. Dave Oesterreich |
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23 Aug 03 - 11:21 AM (#1006995) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: Stilly River Sage The man looking over the wall was called "Kilroy" and originates from World War II. They were signed "Kilroy was here." |
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23 Aug 03 - 11:23 AM (#1006996) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: Amos BWL: Your visions are leaking agin, man!! A |
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23 Aug 03 - 12:31 PM (#1007014) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: McGrath of Harlow 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. |
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23 Aug 03 - 02:13 PM (#1007066) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: michaelr 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 |
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23 Aug 03 - 02:32 PM (#1007074) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: GUEST,Chad 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) |
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23 Aug 03 - 04:06 PM (#1007101) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: Stilly River Sage 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 |
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23 Aug 03 - 04:13 PM (#1007104) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: McGrath of Harlow 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. |
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23 Aug 03 - 04:52 PM (#1007123) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: Mark Cohen 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 |
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23 Aug 03 - 05:15 PM (#1007127) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: Stilly River Sage 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 |
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23 Aug 03 - 09:10 PM (#1007148) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: McGrath of Harlow Eyeballs no doubt. |
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23 Aug 03 - 10:04 PM (#1007168) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: Stilly River Sage Just keeping abreast of the topic. ;-> |
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24 Aug 03 - 05:17 AM (#1007263) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: John MacKenzie 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 |
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24 Aug 03 - 01:52 PM (#1007366) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: Rapparee *<:{)> = Santa Claus. 7:-| = Ronald Reagan |
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24 Aug 03 - 05:39 PM (#1007476) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: Mark Cohen I like the Reagan one a lot! Have you seen the one for Homer Simpson? ~(8^(|) Aloha, Mark |
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24 Aug 03 - 09:53 PM (#1007578) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: open mike emoticon site and here... |
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25 Aug 03 - 08:45 AM (#1007725) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: The Walrus 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. |
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25 Aug 03 - 08:49 AM (#1007727) Subject: RE: BS: Emoticon challenge From: The Walrus OOps unrecognised sybols, it should have read (o o) ///l\\\ (nearest I could get to a portrait of a walrus) V V Walrus |