a good way to protest the use of the new emoticons...

[Mday]

type your text such that it does not use them. add a space after the ":" or what not.

:)

i used the bold formatting for both the : and )

 

[chipbgt]

I choose to never smile again.

 

[Pepsi90919]

:(

 

[RSI]

Excellent idea. ;)

 

[geno]

I choose to use the equal sign for my eyes on the smilys - nothing wrong with a little diversity =) =P

 

[Soccerman]

I just hate this new face.. it makes me wanna punch the monitor! hehe..

 

[AndyHui]

:D

 

[Mday]

poor chip :(

 

[chipbgt]

It's enough to make a guy cry, isn't it?

too bad Theres no suitable icon to express myself...

fat faced little bastards...

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

I think this one is more punchable. I think because it looks too much like the CRAZY gif from MyCoupons, which I also never liked :disgust:

 

[raptor13]

/|\ <--- SUCKS!
|
/ \

 

[apoppin]

There is NO good way to protest the use of these new icons.

They are here to stay for this version of FuseTalk.

Now punch YOUR monitor, hard!

 

[Bryan]

O-/<|8

 

[Eli]

Good idea :)

test :Q

 

[Possessed Freak]

heh can you write protect the old smilies in your cache so they remain for you ???

 

[MGallik]

(_8(|)

 

[Dennis Travis]

is what we used to use in the old DOS BBS days when we did not have any fancy icons. Funny to see it here 20 years later!

 

[geno]

Posessed - good idea! I guess its worth a shot, as long as IE doesn't rename the file by adding a number to it (like smily[2].gif for example). Does anyone know where we can find some of the old ones? I'll head over to nowhereland and see what I can scrounge up - but if there's another page with them, please post them or PM them to me - thanks!

Edit - Ack - well, couldn't get that to work - anyone else got any ideas?