Calling all readers: Want some new icons?

A spiff icon

For all those comments that own their very existence to a small amount of THC. Useful for commenting on other's posts -"What are you smoking?"- or for your own posts -"This is what I'm smoking!"-. :D

Hm could be a business opportunity here

We've had smiley's - maybe we need a new range of icons for the new intertube age - they would be called "igno-rants"

Get in early with these

A cartoon of (Insert famous politician of choice) as an icon for "I don't know anything about this subject but I'm going to spout on anyway"

OR

an icon of a big gaping mouth for "I didn't read the article but jumped straight to the comments section"

A Pie icon perhaps

For those 'Oh Yeah? Yo Momma!' posts..... Ran into that today in fact.... The 'Suck on This' sometimes just doesn't cover it.

;)

What a muppet

Could use a selection including:

Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzy Bear, Animal, Gonzo

Paris

may be getting a little long in the - er - tooth, these days, and perhaps should be replaced by a more dynamic model.

Kate Middleton, anyone?

Icons schmicons

How about just making it so if someone posts an internet link it doesn't create scroll bars that cover the last word on every row of their comment?

For a tech site, that shows a surprising lack of robustness testing.

(added icon I have very rarely seen, since it will probably be gone soon)

If the stories I'm reading elsewhere are true..

...it looks like you need a combined evil Jobs/Big Brother icon. And to set fire to your iPhone.

some quick ones off the top of my head...

...as I didn't have the time/motivation to pore over all two hundred-odd comments (sorry if any of these have already been suggested):

- I'm pretty "down" with the Ellison, Schmidt, Zuckerberg, et. al. with devil's horns. I suppose corresponding icons with angel's halos would only be fair, but nobody I know likes those guys.

- Perhaps a wider selection of beer icons. Right now it's just an ale; I like ales OK, but I really dig stout. Perhaps a similar pint of stout icon for when you really want to adamantly affirm the desire to "buy that man a pint".

-"No shit, Sherlock" icon. Definitely. I suggest a close-up shot of Basil Rathbone with pipe and deerstalker, from the classic 30s/40s film series.

-Bozo The Clown icon, perhaps foto/close-up from the old 50s/60s US kids' show, for those times you really want to blurt out "jeezus, what a bunch of clownshit!" (See SF NewTech article)

-Ballmer As Crazed Dancing Monkey Boy Icon. Close-up shot of crazed, sweaty Ballmer from the infamous Developers' Conference video. For when Microsoft does something really whacked.

-Facepalm: For those articles that make you... you know, facepalm. That shot of Captain Picard from the widely-circulated Demotivational Poster would be perfect.

-"My God, It's Full Of..." Icon. The famous extreme close-up of Bowman from '2001' as he watches the video explaining his mission (http://www.sportsbabel.net/2001bowman.jpg) -- for those posts that make you think "holy fucking shit...!"

-Insanely Smiling Noddy Holder Icon. Close-up of ol' Noddy with that hat with the mirrors all over it, gleefully leering, for those inevitable Reg articles discussing brassieres, ladies' underwear, "jubs", or Bulgarian Airbags... because Noddy wrote so many great songs about getting your hands into ladies' underwear.

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Print of beer icon, because it's about noon here on the US East Coast, which means it's probably around beer o'clock-ish in London right now(?).

Snoopy

ASCII-art Snoopy for good use of presentation or statistics in an article,

pacman/pie chart for bad use.

Punch card for old-timey IT.

A picture of a Great Tit might be a little too obscure (or not), but most would probably understand a blue-footed booby for the appropriate discussions.

My choices are

1) a nice little donkey, viewed from behind, to signify that I think the idea/comment/article/whatever was written by an ass

2) a fairy in a woodland landscape, to signify that I think the idea/comment/article/whatever comes from/is written by some lunatic in lalaland

3) a pitchfork, preferably on a flaming background, to signify that I would really, really like to skewer the idea/comment/article/whatever and be done with it

Oh, and let's get rid of the Gates icons, replace them with Jobs icons and it'll be fine.

Thank you for your attention.

Nominated for removal

Escape key

Joke Alert

That guy in black and white that I don't recognize

That other guy in black and white that I don't recognize (yes, I demand that El Reg be organized to suit my world alone)

Terminator face

One thing I might like to see

Like many others, I've been forced to repurpose the "May contain highly technical content" icon to mean "Watch out, I'm about to become extremely pedantic". Perhaps we could have a separate icon for this latter usage?

Mine's the anorak, of course!

Happy with the selection

I can't think of anything off the top of my head. But I would like to say nice one to the dad who was arriving at Strikerz at Turton School tonight wearing the 'Badgers' T-shirt. Good work and carry on.

A group of angels dancing on a pin

Questions about how many angels could balance on a single pin were reputedly the source behind various medieval theological flame wars. How apt.

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icons for anonymous and peado bear kthnx