FQuest: Smilie Wizards please apply

**Terra** · 01-03-2000, 10:21 PM

I have always wanted a really cool smilie face for the AOTA Forums and the following image has always conjured up...

For those of you that know Douglas Adams, this is from his excellent series 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'... One of my favorite books when I was younger...

Could someone please take a moment to see if it's feasable to iconize it... I would love to see this new smilie added to our icon set for replacing - :p

Thanks!

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Terra
--
"And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground!
I wonder if it will be friends with me?"
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FutureQuest

PS: one of my favorite lines from the 'HHGTTG'

elite · 01-03-2000, 10:42 PM

You want that as a smiley ie .gif for ubb or an .ico ?

**Deb** · 01-03-2000, 10:52 PM

He's looking for a gif for the UBB

Jason · 01-04-2000, 10:46 AM

Hehe... In the midst of my Christmas shopping this year I noticed that they'd reissued the "complete" HHGTTG anthology in one book, and that it was 40% of at Barnes and Noble. I was thinking of picking it up and getting reacquainted with the series - and now that I read the quote Terra just posted, I think I'll head back this weekend.

Or maybe I'll just buy the audiobook

Jason
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*Tatu* · 01-05-2000, 05:31 PM

That thing is impossible to make it look good when it is resized!!!

The best I could get it look would be 30x23 pixels, but I figure that is too big, tho. Did you try posting at the UBB UBB?

*Mandi* · 01-05-2000, 08:25 PM

I always wanted a pair of those sunglasses that would go completely dark so I wouldn't have to bothered with the dangerous and scary things that were heading towards me . . .

*Mandi* · 01-05-2000, 08:27 PM

PS - for grownups who loved Hitchhiker's et al - check out the new Harry Potter series; I managed to sneak the three volumes avail in the US (one by one, of course) away from my 9 year old daughter while we drove to NY state and back over vacation - they are excellent, and not "just for kids!"

*sheila* · 01-05-2000, 10:10 PM

Well, Hitchhiker's is cool and all, but maybe simplifying the graphic would be better. What about loosing the arms and just making it basically a face with a tongue coming out?

Or, what about that fairly common graphic of the big, fat lips with the tongue coming out?

**Terra** · 01-05-2000, 11:28 PM

Hehehe,

I already tried trading off the eyes for the arms...

Possibly loosing a couple teeth, and maybe a smaller open mouth... :þ

--
Terra
--Beginning to think it can't be done--

FutureQuest

*Carol-H* · 01-06-2000, 10:45 AM

Will this do?

- Carol Hanson
www.dragonbear.com

(edited: maybe make the tongue a brighter red so that it stands out more?)
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