DrBouvenstein posted:

Well that explains my question, which was "how did they know it was but sex and not just regular sex?"

But I guess if people were actually peeking through vent holes and sit, and not just seeing silhouettes, then that explains it!

Of course, it's also possible they went around telling people it was anal...either after or during...

"Yo goons, havin' some sweet-rear end rear end-sex with my girlfriend in this here tent! Come on over for a show!"

hyperhazard posted:

Is that new? I've been waiting for something to replace vv for a while now.

Golbez posted:

My favorite old emoticon was :hydrahump:. Why would they get rid of it?

Also, is there any special meaning behind ?

cmndstab posted:

I bought back in the day, it's "good ol'" Jim Ross, professional wrestling commentator. The "bahgawd" name references his catchphrase. I didn't make the GIF, I simply promised to buy one if someone made one since people were posting JR pictures in the wrestling threads nonstop. was actually not the GIF I intended to purchase but accidentally bought the wrong one, I meant to buy this one with the slightly different mouth:

At the time the people in the thread (correctly) predicted that it would be more commonly used outside of the wrestling subforum as a generic redneck emoticon.

Away all Goats posted:

Maybe I'm mis remembering, but I think the phone smileys were around before BYOB.

Anyway, what is from?

ToxicSlurpee posted:

It was so long ago homegrown porn was still allowable. Of course, homegrown always leads to massive drama so it has since been banned.

The story goes (if memory serves me right...other old goons can feel free to correct me if I am wrong) one particular goon had a ludicrously hot girlfriend named Sonia. They took some pictures of her (and I think her and him together) and posted it all over DPPH. A massive drama bomb followed. The smiley, as far as I know and as far as the forums proper goes, are all that remains.

I have no idea where you would get any pictures or video that exist. They may have been lost to the sands of time but my understanding is that she was, in fact, unbelievably hot.

Shine posted:

The first thousand times I saw this, I thought it was some sort of helicopter next to a heart .

Yoshi Jjang posted:

I think I understand that alludes to piracy, but how did it get to look like that?

Also, not smilies, but can somebody explain why there are so many sexy cowboys, stoats, and robot-man-love avatars?

General Panic posted:

Because obviously if goons weren't wasting money on smilies they would be spending it on sensible stuff like healthy food, life insurance policies and broadly-based investment plans.

Toast Museum posted:

No, it says , though there used to be a :fliez: as well.

Peanut President posted:

I love this new one.

Dr Pepper posted:

Monocle Frog is a thing of beauty.

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

I think the second one is a reference to the lovely webcomic Least I Could Do. The main character is constantly making that smugface, and has eyebrows like that.

Joementum posted:

In the off chance that you're not trolling or that someone reading your post doesn't know, that's Hank from The Larry Sanders show, which you should go watch right now. It's on Netflix streaming.

Pierzak posted:

Why is called "sugartits"?

Suspicious Dish posted:

What is a ? Also, who is that guy on the "Don't Go There" icon that appears when a thread is closed?

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Closed thread guy

Posted by sex offendin Link on February 2, 2009

When a thread is closed, the Reply button is replaced with a tiny image featuring a man and the text "Don't go there!" The man on the button is Cyrus Sahukar, a VJ on the Indian version of MTV, whose image was appropriated by Lowtax around the year 2000.

A larger version of the image he was taken from can be found here: http://j4cbo.mirror.waffleimages.co...d333dbb962e.gif

Alter Ego posted:

Could have sworn it was Richard Simmons.

Can-O-Raid posted:

To elaborate, the series is unfinished and the author takes up to five years to come up with a new GoT book. Since he's getting pretty old and isn't exactly too healthy of a guy, this has lead to fears that he will die before finishing them. This is compounded by the fact that he has apparently spends most of the time between books blogging about football and editing a series of incredibly lovely superhero books called 'Wild Cards'. It is in the resulting maelstrom of bitterness that is born.

scamtank posted:

It's a favorite of some drive-by avatarers, but it references the newspaper Spider-Man's tendency to be foiled by bricks to the head.

TwoPair posted:

Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man is a great book, and almost every other page could fit in this thread, but the fight shifts from "Spider-Man is a hero who quips" to "Spider-Man as played by Bugs Bunny"


_{(Source is Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #17)}

MrChips posted:

First place I remember seeing was in baseball postseason gameday threads, when relief pitcher Brad Lidge was called into the game. Lidge was highly unpredictable and hellish to watch if you were cheering for his team; he could either be spectacularly good, or spectacularly bad, with hardly any middle ground. In recent years, he's tended more to the spectacularly bad side.

RagnarokAngel posted:

And before anyone asks is deceased acclaimed Metal singer Ronnie James Dio, formerly a member of Black Sabbath and later his own band also called Dio. Because d10 looks like dio

fork bomb posted:

I curse my lovely reg date emote

Marcade posted:

I had always assumed it was from the old urban legend about how Roger Maris' 61 home run season was going to have an asterisk beside it to denote that he broke Babe Ruth's record of 60 homers in a 162 game season rather than a 154 game season like was the norm when Ruth played.

Wikipedia posted:

In colloquial usage, an asterisk is used to indicate that a record is somehow tainted by circumstances, which are putatively explained in a footnote referenced by the asterisk.[8] This usage arose after the 1961 baseball season in which Roger Maris of the New York Yankees broke Babe Ruth's 34-year-old single-season home run record. Because Ruth had amassed 60 home runs in a season with only 154 games, compared to Maris's 61 over 162 games, baseball commissioner Ford Frick announced that Maris' accomplishment would be recorded in the record books with an explanation (often referred to as "an asterisk" in the retelling). In fact, Major League Baseball had no official record book at the time, but the stigma remained with Maris for many years, and the concept of a real or figurative asterisk denoting less-than-official records has become widely used in sports and other competitive endeavors. A 2001 TV movie about Maris' record-breaking season was called 61* (pronounced sixty-one asterisk) in reference to the controversy.

Iron Crowned posted:

Beecock was a SA thing. I think it showed up when you tried to log in after being banned. I don't know first hand as I've never been banned.

fivre posted:

:human being: could have a use if it included text.

SplitSoul posted:

WorkingPeer posted:

This one is awesome. I don't know when the hell I'd ever use it, but I'd buy it if I had the money.

Radio Paranoia posted:

If anybody ever buys this one the tag has to be :frankie:

Mad Hamish posted:

I'm not really a fan of but your variation is hilarious for some reason. Is it the smoking making him look more world-weary and jaded? While is watching the unfolding forums drama with enthusiasm, has seen it a thousand times before.

Nenuphar posted:

Has this one already been explained? What does it stand for? Is he shaking a gigantic ham?

UZworm posted:

After that discussion on I started to see it as a side view of Pac-Man choking on a giant donut.

muike posted:

I think it's a reference to some dumb idiot poster who really missed the times when greeks buttfucking each other was the truest expression of art

Kavak posted:

Somebody needs to do something with this Sparta-fellating douche. It's not exactly E/Nish but I can't even imagine how insufferable he would be in person.

buttopticor posted:

Maybe there's a specific backstory, but it may be as simple as +→ and smilies being cheap to buy back then. It goes back at least as far as Feb 2007.

TetsuoTW posted:

Because the last time New Zealand approached relevance outside of its own borders (Australia stealing all our famous poo poo excluded) was when our Prime Minister loving destroyed a debate team led by Jerry Fallwell in the 1980s?

Besesoth posted:

I don't think I've seen this one, and a threadsearch, SAclopedia, and the named user's profile yield nothing:

.

It's Baron von Blubba from Bubble Bobble. The "hurry! hurry!" is a message that appears in Bubble Bobble when you exceed a level's time limit, just before Baron von Blubba appears.

So why is it "choco"? Is it, in fact, related to the user choco?

Alternative pants posted:

Who cares what it's called, it's better than the hardhat Spider-Men.

MoonwalkInvincible posted:

Eggplant Wizard (then known as Butt Wizard) had someone make that avatar for her, but then a couple of other people got it as well, and then someone (probably EPW) started giving it to people when they asked about or commented on the frogatar phenomenon.

So then PYF ended up with a bunch of frog avatar people, the end.

Portals posted:

This is a new one I think, where the hell did come from? It looks sort of SBaHJish. Also, what's the origin for ?

Aleator posted:

Did anyone answer why is shobon and not something else like :newbee:? I went through the thread, but can't remember if anyone did.

Dj Meow Mix posted:

It's based off this Japanese emoticon I'm guessing. （´・ω・｀) Shobon roughly means depressed or down cast.