h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Remind me, people. How long have we had ? Quite a few years, right?

Apparently, the Unicode people have just voted to add this vital smiley to their 'emoji' list, which for some reason is the 'official' one. ()

And they're calling it the 'Colbert emoji' in honour of comedian Stephen Colbert. (A87789190 in case you don't know who he is.) Why is it his emoji? Because Colbert is famous for his facial flexibility. He can raise one eyebrow, just like Leonard Nimoy could.

Colbert had fun with it. Here's his take:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfZE56E0Uts

Apparently, they go through a Vogon song-and-dance to introduce emojis over at Unicode. No wonder we beat 'em by miles.

I give you h2g2: always out in front.

I think that was one of my 2011 ones, so it's about time they caught up!

I wonder whether they'll enter the great debate.

Nah, I think smiley yaps are over-represented on hootoo

I call the "Roger Moore".

Fair enough. I don't think I've seen Roger Moore enough to know what his facial expressions are.

Definitely Roger Moore The master of the raised eyebrow.

However, The Unicode People, or even Roger Moore himself will never match this particular smiley

or even the chocolateteapot.



I have spoken.

I like The Unicode People. Not knowing what this really means, or who they really are, because I live in a chocolateteapot world, I am free to imagine that I am speaking to them in ancient, yet futuristic languages, whilst sharing pizza in a pizza place with flickering lights and peculiar windows. As one does. Unless one doesn't.

there's only one that counts=

watches out if it comes out as a sew-on badge

heheh. Hullo Prof! I haven't sent you a kiss smiley for ages.

The Prof smiley! Of course. The Unicode People can't match the Prof smiley.

We need the sew on badge, indeed.

Can I have a sew on chocolate teapot also?

This could be the new h2g2 venture, sew on smileys. I would wear them all on the sleeves of my anorak. heheh. You think I'm kidding? Oh, you don't.

thank you sweetheart, my day/month/year has just been made

I think smileys/emoticons/emoji are the greatest things to come along since punctuation marks, more sobtle, more fine shades of meaning.

It's about time we rewrote the great works of fiction using smileys in place of punctuation.

poor Yorick.
I knew him, Horatio.
A fellow of infinite


You reading this, Dmitri? Sounds like something for that rag you edit

re post 10:

I beg to differ. They are the greatest thing since Victor Borge invented phonetic punctuation

re post 11:

Good one, Icy. See if you can guess this one:

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Is it Magic Bus by The Who?

love it.

(tries to think of a quote involving s and s.

Or what about .

Damn. I wish I was clever.

Actually this is just an excuse to print out these little masterpieces. and all the smileys.. How can they be so perfect?



There's always s from ... respect for the band and the late great man.



Then there's coffee. .

Heads off to write a smiley masterpiece.

So if one were to tentatively suggest improvements to our current selection, what's the most vital?

re post 14:

Got it in one, Icy

Just surprise us

They always go down well:

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Like, more smileys?

mmmm nice. I can't suggest any more, because my world is already awash with infinite and strange beauty, but I bet the people here can ...



Nay nay! I cannot to your every whim!

What? Who said that? I did. It's a fake quote, because I don't know real ones, and just an excuse to use the . And the neigh.

re post 16:

Funny you should ask, Mala - and frustrating too. Because only a few days I was thinking of one, but now I can't for the life os me remember it

If it ever returns to either halves of my brain cell I'll let you know