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Everyone knows that a smilie* is a great way to express yourself without bothering with words, and adds a dash of colour to your otherwise drab posts Therefore we present here, for the first time, a countdown of C4Countdown's smiliest users. All stats in this post are real, other comments do not necessarily reflect the views of the author.


At number 5, it's everyone's favourite home educator Julie T, with 4.5 smilies per post. Expressive!

At number 4, it's Martin May whose occasional emotional outbursts give him an impressive 4.6 smilies per post. Emo!

In at 3, we have Jason "too cool for C4C" Cullen, with 700 posts and an average of 4.7 smilies each. Extroverted!

Making a strong bid for the top spot, it's James " " Robinson, the only member of the top five to become a kiloposter. James' inexplicable desire to replace all forms of punctuation with the same item of punctuation in a little yellow circle gives each post an incredible average of 5.444 smilies. Excruciating

But, the number one spot by a hair's breadth, proving she's anything but an economist with emoticons, is... Lesley Jeavons at 5.446 smilies per post! Well done Lesley, but how long can she hang on at the top? Exciting!


* Not valid on apterous

What next, who is the biggest winker.

Marc Meakin wrote:What next, who is the biggest winker.

Actually it's "Who is the biggest paedo?", not that it makes much difference.

Charlie Reams wrote:economist with emoticons

Clever

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Charlie Reams wrote:
At number 5, it's everyone's favourite home educator Julie T, with 4.5 smilies per post. Expressive!

Surprised , but unconcerned. I quite like using emoticons , so yah boo sucks!

(Bumping up my average a little! )

Dinos Sfyris wrote:

Charlie Reams wrote:economist with emoticons

Clever

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Thought of that one, but Dinos beat me to it. It was good to finally meet your Emma last week!

The first official Smilie palindrome.

If you quote Dinos's post as you did in your last post, Julie, I wonder if the quoted smilies count towards your total.

Howard Somerset wrote:If you quote Dinos's post as you did in your last post, Julie, I wonder if the quoted smilies count towards your total.

Yeah they do, I totally couldn't be arsed to fix something like that.

Smilie? Smiley, surely.

Charlie Reams wrote:

Howard Somerset wrote:If you quote Dinos's post as you did in your last post, Julie, I wonder if the quoted smilies count towards your total.

Yeah they do, I totally couldn't be arsed to fix something like that.

yay!

Someone had to.

I only thought I had a lot of free time.

Matt Morrison wrote:Someone had to.

And someone had to do this:

Gavin Chipper wrote:--Very funny indeed--

Thanks, Gavin! , and Howard for the tip!

I thought someone named Carol might have been top of the table but oh well.

Julie T wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:Someone had to.

And someone had to do this:

Gavin Chipper wrote:-- Yes, same joke again--

Thanks, Gavin! , and Howard for the tip!

This is just getting silly now

Ian Volante wrote:

Julie T wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:Someone had to.

And someone had to do this:

Gavin Chipper wrote:'hilarity'

Thanks, Gavin! , and Howard for the tip!

This is just getting silly now

Yeah, I don't know about anyone else, but it's making this thread a bit too much for my Internets.

There are a number of contradictions in Gavin's post.

Charlie Reams wrote:Making a strong bid for the top spot, it's James " " Robinson, the only member of the top five to become a kiloposter. James' inexplicable desire to replace all forms of punctuation with the same item of punctuation in a little yellow circle gives each post an incredible average of 5.444 smilies. Excruciating

James while reading this post - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK9ombgdAzk

I've edited a few posts here because they were killing some people's browsers.

Charlie Reams wrote:I've edited a few posts here because they were killing some people's browsers.

Including mine, well done Charlie, Firefox will have to wait!!!, sorry I mean

Charlie Reams wrote:Making a strong bid for the top spot, it's James " " Robinson, the only member of the top five to become a kiloposter. James' inexplicable desire to replace all forms of punctuation with the same item of punctuation in a little yellow circle gives each post an incredible average of 5.444 smilies. Excruciating

Hmmm , very impressive.

Not bad coming 2nd after just less than a year on here.

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry , but either way it can't be that bad can it

Well, I think it's well impressive.

Well, at least I've got a realistic target to get to now, as there's no chance of me being top dog on Apterous.

Hopefully, No.1 soon

James Robinson wrote:Not bad coming 2nd after just less than a year on here.

lol. Sorry, James, but I must point out the glaring statistical error you've made there. The average (arithmetic mean) is the total number of smilies divided by the number of posts. Therefore if you had only ever posted once (assuming Charlie didn't impose a lower limit on the number of posts), then using six smilies in that one post would have placed you at #1. Six divided by one is six.

Alec Rivers wrote:

James Robinson wrote:Not bad coming 2nd after just less than a year on here.

lol. Sorry, James, but I must point out the glaring statistical error you've made there. The average (arithmetic mean) is the total number of smilies divided by the number of posts. Therefore if you had only ever posted once (assuming Charlie didn't impose a lower limit on the number of posts), then using six smilies in that one post would have placed you at #1. Six divided by one is six.

Yes, I did realise that, Alec.

I'm just overjoyed at being #2 out of 1,082.

The only time that being #2 is bad, is when you're #2 out of 2.

James Robinson wrote:The only time that being #2 is bad, is when you're #2 out of 2.

I'd also have to say that being #2 is bad when you were eaten yesterday.

James Robinson wrote:

Alec Rivers wrote:

James Robinson wrote:Not bad coming 2nd after just less than a year on here.

lol. Sorry, James, but I must point out the glaring statistical error you've made there. The average (arithmetic mean) is the total number of smilies divided by the number of posts. Therefore if you had only ever posted once (assuming Charlie didn't impose a lower limit on the number of posts), then using six smilies in that one post would have placed you at #1. Six divided by one is six.

Yes, I did realise that, Alec.

I'm just overjoyed at being #2 out of 1,082.

You are indeed overjoyed in the truest sense of the word.