Why can't we use smilies in polls?

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[supernova]

1. Because you don't want

to hurt the smilie's feelings if they don't get enough votes. :-)

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3. Who CARES how the smilies feel? They're there for me to USE!

[supernova]

4. You so mean!

:cry:

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6. Oops. Sorry.

:(

[supernova]

7. Joking!

:D

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9. Too late. Now I feel all low and mean for using smilies.

[swag]

2. Smilies would undermine the gravity of the polls we conduct here.

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5. Hogwash! I've used many smilies, without effect on the law of gravity!

[qnr]

8. You young whippersnappers... always want a fancy GUI, never happy

with a text console ... you've got a smilie in your poll dagnabbit all to hades!

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10. Who is YOU callin a whippersnapper? When I wuz banging out ..

.. mimeograph stencils on mah old Royal portable with the malaligned 't', I doesn't recall YOU anywhere about!

[qnr]

11. I was busy with the slateboard, abaccus and 2 tin cans and a string n/t

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12. Hope ya wore a helmet while slateboarding!

[qnr]

13. no need. we used rollers of tree limbs - rarely exceeded about 4mph n/t

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15. 4 mph? Wasn't that sport called "kick the branch"?

[qnr]

17. As long as by "kick the branch" you mean "falling on your butt and

scooting all of the sticks downhill into a jumbled pile, whereupon you suddenly stopped your downhill glide by landing face-first in said sticks, followed by the late arrival of the slateboard thwacking you upside the head," then yes, it was called that.

[leftofthedial]

14. because smilies aren't scientific

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16. Why? Because they don't have Ph.Ds?

[leftofthedial]

18. some of them may have PhD's

but only in stuff like English and Home Ec and stuff