sunset adjustment?

Lovely.
Better than blowing parrot poop I guess. 🙂

I thought it came from the Sandman.

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Are you going for the existential post dntw8up? I see a naked cow in a snowstorm. 😉

HA!!!

I decided to beat Islander to the punch and delete myself. Of course I deleted and reposted and redeleted because I really wanted to say something. Eventually I decided that one of the hall monitors would catch me and report me to the principal's office, where I'd be punished with detention, and I've heard from others who are in detention that it isn't as fun as The Breakfast Club because nobody actually knows who's running the detention.

LMAO!!

I know who is running the Detention Asylum - and you do too if you think about it for a half second!

We ARE the Breakfast Club - except for those pouty lips of Molly Ringwald's....and we are deeper than our stereotypes, we just don't get to show it much.....

I would welcome you to the Dark Side again, but that seems to upset everyone.....so I'll just give you smileys!

🙂 🙂 🙂

Please, don't send any emoticons my way. I find them deeply offensive on a variety of fronts. I think 🙂 , 😉 , and :S are racist allusions to yellow Asians. :X suggests those from red communist countries are perpetually hostile and negative, like some posters on this board who shall remain anonymous. I find 🙁 and *-) degrading to clinically depressed people suffering from the blues. I'm insulted on behalf of our brethren from afar when I see 😛 and 😀 because I deplore xenophobia; even green Martians deserve respect. I don't find it amusing to poke fun at people based on their race, ethnicity, mental health status or planet of origin and the fact that so many here do makes me question my participation on this board. Please, I implore you, keep your vile emoticons to yourself!!!

P.S. End of Rant! (Borrowed, admittedly without permission, from Teresa)

People use emoticons because they like the way emoticons make them feel. Pleasure is a powerful force. If you do something pleasurable, your brain is wired in such a way that you want to do it again. Emoticons are addicting and can activate and affect the brain's pleasure circuit.

Addiction is a disease that affects your brain and your behavior. You have control over your choice to start using emoticons, but once you start, the pleasurable effect of emoticons makes you want to keep using them. Over time, your brain actually changes in certain ways so that a powerful urge to use emoticons controls your behavior. This is what it means to be addicted to emoticons. Someone who is addicted uses emoticons without thinking or caring about the consequences.

Addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease. It may take a number of attempts before you can remain free of emoticons. It may not be easy to quit but your efforts will be rewarded by better relationships with board members and a sense of accomplishment that only living emoticon-free can give you.

The first step in breaking addiction is realizing that you control your own behavior. You can't control how the people around you act but you can control how you react. It's the only real control you have in your life so use it. Commit to quitting.; once you decide to quit, make plans to be sure you really do it. Get support.; board members want you to succeed and will give you the support you need to quit and move on with your life.

Adapted from: http://familydoctor.org/357.xml

Those of you with an emoticon habit know who you are. If you're the friend of an emoticon abuser and believe an intervention is in order because the abuser denys abusing emoticons, please PM me and I will try to help!

So you want me to take The Voices and my aluminum beanie and go home? But my planet is so far away....

Is there a 12 Step program for emoticon abuse? An 800 number? The first step is admitting you have a problem - I humbly step forward and admit I web surf for new emotes (no, that's a lie, I get them from Island Ed)....oh, no, now I have a lying demon too.....

My name is East Ender and I am an emoticon abuser! 😉

My name is Mell and I am too!!!

That said, I don't plan to give it up because emoticons are fat, carb, and calorie free.

It's either this or the potato chips, so I will take the emoticons!!!

Have a great night everyone!!!
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My name is Beth, and I *shudder* don't like smiley faces. And frankly, Becky, I am way cuter than Molly Ringwald! Only, can I be the Judd Nelson character?

Of course you can, Beth. you can be anything you want to be in the lovely world inside your head! You could even be 19 again sitting through a safe sex talk from a Catholic parent? I think I might have got that wrong - I am confused.
😛 oh crap, now I have to go back to SA and start all over again...hello, my name is Jane and I am a smiley abuser.

Uh-oh. I don't see Islander taking the pledge & Islander uses them all the time.

Ah, I have tingley's and want to scream WOOT WOOT because it feels as if all this emoticon talk and "coming out" has brought us all together and we are playing nice. Maybe emoticon addiction is the answer. lol

See- leaving posts up for their course to play out makes for nice-nice...instead of crash, board goes boom again!

Admittedly they all therefore, go off course in many directions.. much like a jungle... but hey...I think we can all bicker ourselves to a snide end very well...

but ah, we can coddle (I dont mean cuddle, coddle) are varied manes just the same!!

If I knew how to (yes, yes read #7 or something like that!) Id totally do a few emoticons right now!!
But in the absence- picture me- energy of phentermine popping phene jumping up and down screaming "Woot Woot"! (not as in the train noise)!

edited to note: I am not a phen phene... just sounded good. Although - I have a past!