Really off topic: the new smilies

[chasem]

Any illumination shed on this would be appreciated.

I doubt it's the original form the dancing banana saw (due to the pixelated edges), but here is where the dancing banana gained popularity at least

[beerbecue]

I dunno...

There are too many smilie type thingies now... some posts contain far too many IMHO.....

[MacTavishOfJapan]

Just folks playing about with them while they're new I think. It'll settle down a little. Is there a way to turn off viewing smilies in your personal settings?

[Mike1]

I ran the smilie permissions limit up pretty high, so I could preview all of them in the one post. If we see that people are abusing that limit, I'll wind the number back down and put an end to it.