Did Forrest Gump invent the smiley face?
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The smiley face craze, if not necessarily the smiley face itself, was the work of two brothers in Philadelphia, Bernard and Murray Spain, who were in the business of making would-be fad items. In September of 1970 (Bernard says 1969, but I suspect he's misremembering), they heard destiny calling. Casting about for some peace symbol-like item with more general appeal, they recalled the smiley faces that had been floating around for years in the advertising business. By George, they cried, or would have cried if I'd been around to write the dialogue, we're in the midst of a ghastly war, we're surrounded by protests and hate, what the country needs is a nickel-sized depiction of a guy who's just had a prefrontal lobotomy. Whoa, just kidding! Actually, what they wanted was for all mankind to be happy and live in harmony ... OK, I confess, that wasn't it either. Bernie, with admirable frankness, says they did it to make a buck.
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Go here and download it,you can find also new adults smiley,very nice! http://yacam.altervista.org at the left menu
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Because your computer is lucky!! Smiley Central is a popular spyware and a virus-deployer (one that downloads and installs viruses, worms, trojans, etc. without your knowledge). Please avoid using Smiley Central.\n\nRemember BonziBuddy? It was so popular, until someone found out that it's purpose is spying.\n_______\nViva La Dvorak! - www.dvzine.org
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a smiley face?  perhaps the cell is happy!
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d) None of the above...\n\nActually... (oh dear, this isn't going to be a popular answer!), the jury's still out on this one. It's a saying that has been around for so long and penetrated our culture to the extent that everyone assumes it's true without remembering specific details or sources. You will find many seemingly reputable sources swearing that it's true, but interestingly enough they report widely different figures for the number of muscles. Some of the more popular ones are 43 muscles in a frown vs. 17 muscles in a smile and 62 muscles in a frown vs. 26 muscles in a smile (nice symmetry... too nice if you ask me!). So we definitely know what majority opinion is on the subject, but they don't seem to have anything to back it up!\n\nThings are further complicated by the fact that those crazy researchers who are actually puzzling over this can't agree on certain fundamental things: do they count muscles with a major involvement, do they count every teeny-tiny muscle that twitches even if it doesn't play a large role, do they count eye muscles because some people's eyes crinkle up a bit when they smile, etc., etc.? Frowning could involve more muscles, but smiling could still require more effort if those fewer muscles need to be flexed more. Do a random google search like I did; I swear you will find all of this and I am not making it up! Nobody knows for sure, but everybody has ideas.\n\nA few facts that may or may not also be relevant to answering the question: studies show that people are more apt to smile when they see other people smiling and frown when they see other people frowning, some believe that smiling just seems easier because we do it more and the muscles are thus better conditioned for it, and the sort of smile that we label "insincere" requires significantly less muscular effort than a sincere and spontaneous grin.\n\nI vote for smiling, regardless of how many muscles are involved! :)
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bceagles sounds like he has issues. YES, i like the ones with pictures. when i was a grey smiley face square, i hardly ever had my questions answered. now with my beautiful face for all to see, people can't help but click on. people are really attracted to the avatar, not the question!!!!!
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yeah, there are little smiley faces at the top of the picture of you avatar which you click to change their mood.
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Yes, they will need the same version of you to see the same things you do. If they have a higher version and they have features that you dont, then you will not be able to use the same features. If they have voice, but you dont, then you will not be able to use voice...and vice versa. If they have smileys that you dont, then you will see the actual characters used for those smileys, but not the smiley itself. Im sure you can download them manually though.
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http://members.tripod.com/~SmileyBall/Album.html
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that is true...my thoughts about it is maybe the smilie face gives them a sense of being annonomous so they say all kinds of silly things..
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im not sure..maybe came on his face...Lmao thats my guess!
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I know what you mean.\n\nI do that too.\n\nBut I don't mean to.  Sometimes people go around with a mad look on their face and they dont even know it.\n\nso  smile more often when you talk to peep.\n\nThats a start. more smiley face
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http://www.33smiley.com/smiley5/index.html
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you click on your name at the top of the screen where your points and level is shown. Then you click edit information and in the beginning you must have clicked the smiley face. So, instead choose the avatar one and it will allow you to make a face. And if you want an actual picture you need to make a yahoo!360 page, but you must be 18 to make one, and i'm not 18 so i'm not 100% sure how to do it.\n\n~hope that helps!\n(if it doesn't e-mail me and i'll help you more)
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your smileys are nothing more than animated gif files you can save the ones you like (Right mouse click / save as) and use them either as a attachment or attach a picture in your e-mails
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Very bad site. Read this:\nhttp://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/smileycentral.com
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there's a smile icon; selct the heart