A DU Story.....As Told Through Emoticons

One day an enterprising young liberal, dismayed at the results of the 2000 election, decided to start a website.

He put a lot of hard work into designing his website, at times not everything worked out right. But eventually he worked some of the bugs out, installed a message board and pretty soon, people from all walks of life were showing up.

All the new posters and visitors just loved the site and before too long the site became very crowded and was even invaded by a bunch of evil-intentioned posters who just loved to start flame wars and mess up all the love and comrodery that had built up here.

So, seeing that his site was becoming infested, the young liberal decided to purge his board of the evil posters. and warn all others to keep on their best behavior OR ELSE!

Eventually the site stuck around long enough that it reached the off-year 2002 elections. This was not the best of times for the young liberal's message board. His board became filled with hate-filled angst and overdramatic no-it-alls who sought to ruin the family atmosphere of the board.

After some trying times, normalcy returned to the message board. And an upgrade was even done to make the young liberal's site bigger and even better!

But it wasn't too long before dissention broke out in the ranks. Fights began erupting over the pettiest of details, usually involving candidates.

At one point, the maddness even seeped into the comical "Lounge" forum, where over-sexed members began posting their inner-most thoughts and desires in a vain attempt to get some

These threads started out innocently enough, but soon became too much for the Lounge to bear, as long waits insued to find threads of a bit more sophistication.

In the end though, order was restored to the young liberal's website. And people came from miles around to praise him

And they lived happily, if not somewhat disfunctionally, ever after,

All except Magic Rat, who kept getting smacked for repeatedly posting inane and useless topics.

And pretty much sums it up! :)

You are a man of many talents.

one of the funniest posts I have ever read. This one is a keeper.

I wonder where he got all those emoticons?

how do you get 'em into a DU message?

And hit properties. Then copy and paste the address into your thread.

we proudly present Magic Rat with the "DU LOUNGE POSTER" of the year award, for 2003.

You are an important and valued contributor to DU. Who hasn't smiled --broadly--when gifted with each new Magic Rat post. Applause, applause!

Thanks, MagicRat


:kick:

this is adorable. where did you get all the cutie pies?

my favorite is variations of the devil.

:drink:

Not the words. Left click on the smilie thingy and hit 'properties' and then copy the address.

:thumbsup:

but you spelled "know-it-all" wrong :P

Also, what kind of family did you grow up in where you think that all your various sex chat and sex poll threads constitute a "family atmosphere"? Do you have a nice "perv" emoticon for your next thread like this?

Bravo RaT~! you're so adorable ;)

:)

Well done, Ratty! I give it two If we were still allowed, I'd this thread.

:D

:nuke:

I've had like, 25 different sig lines. :)

For the people who just showed up.

:thumbsup:

Very cool!

:toast:

I love it!

The DU Founding Fathers.

bet not many know than one.....or how much dosh involved hehe

I'm still anti-smiley. (One of the few remaining holdouts, most likely.) Don't like 'em, won't use 'em. Should my writing ability ever decline to the point where I have to insert little yellow happy-faces to convey my intended tone, I think I'll just hack off my hands and stick to speaking.

for those who didn't see it yesterday. :)

and test.



on edit: why didn't the sig line one work?
on re-edit: I figured it out! :)