i love smilies, but i use them only when i wanna show my emotions
i love this one
and this one
and this one when someone post something really funny
if appears a new jurassic park tour vehicle,im sure i'll use this one

by the way, everybody know the rumours about the 4th movie of jurassic park?
ok, is offtopic,i'll check if there's already a thread about it

This is a bit wierd I don't see where this would be needed

I never use this one because I think it looks stupid.

As for all these smileys available here on the message board, there are so many of them over 30-odd pages I've never bothered looking through at all (most of them I'd never want to use anyway).

Funny, I never looked at it that way but agree I don't like it much. If I want to admonish someone I can generally find better ways than a smiley.

For some reason I always thought it looked like it was giving the "middle finger" ...

I like the , on some occasions, whenever high praise is deserved, but the one I can't stand is the .

I used to always use smiley's (not just on IMCDb). Sort of grown out of using them often though. I still will use them when I deem it necessary however.

I like using smileys so that sometimes I don't sound too serious or too "anal." For example, when I'm correcting someone, I tend to use smileys so that I won't come off too strong...just like you said G-MANN, it's sort of a way of saying "no big worry."

You can use the forum's smileys on imcdb, it is just the syntax that differs:
you have to put the code of the smiley between [: and ] rather than : and :
e.g.

becomes

(actually the second one works on the forum too)
This may not work for a small amount of smileys, when the code is different from the filename (forum uses code, site uses filename).

Well, you can find other smileys to use from other sites, but I've never spent any real time looking.