ya know your subtle humor on the subject is just too over board. really i could see several uses for allowing the use of graphical smilies... actually no id not use them .. but what i foresee as an added benefit is able to have images incorporated with your text much likve visual irc does... where they can add a tdl flag next to the whois and such. thats what i would like to see ... the ability to incorporate images in our texts if we so choose. and no im not asking this be added on a global level ..... just local values where we can replace text with images. that to me would be the ideal way of adding this. it would open up mirc for a whole new appearance ... say for example i dont wanna see * join SOMENICK

instead i wanna see *image_of_opendoor SomeNICK

now how is that going to make mirc bad? its not ... its going to improve upon it and make it even that much better to use.