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    Great... They are a little confusing.

    Are we seriously that emotional?

    Oh well. They are pretty awesome.
    For I have known them all already, known them all:
    Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
    I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
    I know the voices dying with a dying fall
    Beneath the music from a farther room.

    So how should I presume?
    Eliot

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nikhar View Post
    I do agree so much. I'd hate someone to think me to be a troll when I was trying to be an elf.

    Nah...bad similie.
    Then you may benefit from and .......

    Quote Originally Posted by billl View Post
    Thanks Max!, and I apologize to Janine and Nikhar for not mentioning my agreement with them and then making most of my post a mere restatement of what they had said
    Don't worry about that billl. We all have the right to express ourselves with our own lexicon. Even after others have reached the same conclusions with their own.

    Quote Originally Posted by Heathcliff View Post
    Are we seriously that emotional?
    I'm sure I am

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    So many possibilities. Although they will be so hard to remember, you'd have to go in and click them each time.
    For I have known them all already, known them all:
    Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
    I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
    I know the voices dying with a dying fall
    Beneath the music from a farther room.

    So how should I presume?
    Eliot

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heathcliff View Post
    So many possibilities. Although they will be so hard to remember, you'd have to go in and click them each time.
    Well... that's one of the smiley realm's drawbacks. We need good memory to recall about each one, and they can be quite many

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    Your new favourite Max?
    People laugh at me 'coz they think I'm a fool...I smile because I made someone laugh
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    Could be... let me think ... Yea! until I get a thing for another one ....... hmmm, but which one will be next?

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    Oooooh...I see
    People laugh at me 'coz they think I'm a fool...I smile because I made someone laugh
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    Come on, there are six I like.





    For I have known them all already, known them all:
    Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
    I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
    I know the voices dying with a dying fall
    Beneath the music from a farther room.

    So how should I presume?
    Eliot

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    Can someone please add this to the collection?

    I'll be needing to use that very often.
    People laugh at me 'coz they think I'm a fool...I smile because I made someone laugh
    Nikhar Agrawal

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    Good choices, Nik and Heath

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    Yes. Of course.

    How do they add them anyway?
    For I have known them all already, known them all:
    Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
    I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
    I know the voices dying with a dying fall
    Beneath the music from a farther room.

    So how should I presume?
    Eliot

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    All right, I think I will move right in and bring some perspective into this non-discussion.

    Nobody on the Forum nor the smiley in question means to condone animal beating; what is more, in my very humble non-moderator opinion, to look at it in that way is rather superficial and somewhat dramatic.

    The saying "beating/flogging a dead horse" means that "a particular request or line of conversation is already foreclosed or otherwise resolved, and any attempt to continue it is futile." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flogging_a_dead_horse

    So, it does not advocate a perverse and cruel liking for having dead animals beaten; on the contrary, it emphasises the futility of such an effort. Similarly, the smiley is also used for this very purpose: sometimes the same discussions/arguments are repeated one too many times on the internet and only the expression "beating up a dead horse" defines their futility.

    Truth be told, I know I will be using that particular a lot here on the Forum as, being an internet user for 15 years and a member of this Forum for almost 6 years, I feel like I have seen and heard it all.

    This manages to miss the point completely. We all know the expression and recognize it as intended by the emoticon. The point is that offering a visual depiction of it among others that are meant to be amusing is neither funny nor respectful of horses dead or alive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin View Post
    This manages to miss the point completely. We all know the expression and recognize it as intended by the emoticon. The point is that offering a visual depiction of it among others that are meant to be amusing is neither funny nor respectful of horses dead or alive.
    Her explanation, in fact, addresses the issue directly by stating that to look at it in that way is rather superficial and somewhat dramatic. Perhaps you simply don't want to admit that she's absolutely correct: you're overreacting in this instance.

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    Istvan
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    Can we have one for 'throwing out the baby with the bathwater'?

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    As the purpose of this thread was to get more emoticons, which has been achieved, it has served its purpose and is now closed.
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