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Jim the Wonder Llama (back from yonder) Started conversation Jun 14, 1999
I've heard a vicious rumour that you have now put another one of our "friends" onto the system. Is this true?
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Jim Lynn Posted Jun 14, 1999
It's a vicious rumour, nothing more. When I get round to it, I'll be expanding the smiley repertoire, but until then, 
and 
are all you're getting.
At the same time, maybe I should make the smileys link to a page telling people how to get them? Do you think people would notice they were linked? That would stop the huge cascades of posts with people asking how to get them every time they appear.
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Spartus Posted Jun 14, 1999
How's this for a problem solver: I made a user-page thing describing how to do it: http://www.h2g2.com/P91478
I think it's a bit patronizing, though. Anyone offended by my tone?
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Spartus Posted Jun 14, 1999
Okay, good. I have this awful tendency to patronize without realizing it, and I wanted to make sure it wasn't one of those.
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Jim the Wonder Llama (back from yonder) Posted Jun 16, 1999
I think you should put something in along the lines of:
"Hopefully, new smilies will be along shortly....."
The reason I asked the original question was because MadMonk found another one floating around the system.
This can be found at:
http://www2.h2g2.com/images/f_bozo.gif
What is this if it's not a smiley?
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Jim the Wonder Llama (back from yonder) Posted Jun 16, 1999
Yeah........
So, how do you do it?
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Jim Lynn Posted Jun 16, 1999
I guess you haven't found the Preview button on forum posts, then?
And don't try and find it. You won't. 
should do it, but the code that munges the text won't do that, yet. Next time we release an upgrade, the extra smileys will work by magic.
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Garibaldi - Patented Mr G party at F14181?thread=256534 Posted Jun 17, 1999
I just can't wait after looking at the gif of the tongue poking out smiley. I hope it won't be too long before we are able to use it.
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Jim the Wonder Llama (back from yonder) Posted Jun 17, 1999
Until then, I think we're pretty much stuck
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Garibaldi - Patented Mr G party at F14181?thread=256534 Posted Jun 17, 1999
Yeah I know, but you really can't do things like >,:,-,) (without the commas) without it turning into something like this >. Not that I am complaining, but you just have to be carful when doing fancy smileys.
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Jan^ Posted Jun 18, 1999
I hate to be picky, Jim, but it ought to be %-P, according to the Smiley Dictionary.
And the new smiley does work in user pages, as the URL is http://www2.h2g2.com/images/f_bozo.gif . See http://h2g2.com/A72316 for proof.
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