Emojis we need : Brevity-free in the age of terse texting

Laughter lines emoji

Take my waif, please emoji

Sorry I burned down your family tree emoji

To be fair emoji

Death by hangnail emoji

Limited ads emoji

Bread man walking emoji

Pineapple with a pirate fedora emoji

Potato with a balaclava emoji

Vomiting beaver emoji

Vomiting Santa emoji (from Randall Munroe of xkcd.com)

Vomiting Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer emoji

Santa eating a reindeer burger emoji

Rudolph eating a vegan elf burger emoji

Disgruntled elk emoji

Jaded Alpaca emoji

Incontinent giraffe emoji

Condescending hedgehog emoji

Benevolent porcupine emoji

OMGod! emoji

Beer league hockey emoji

Unemotional eggplant emoji

Life’s a roller coaster, keep your arms inside emoji (Conor Oberst)

New York I love you but you’re freaking me out emoji {LCD Soundsystem}

Running late for tea emoji

Jazz makes me angry emoji

Her eyes were sanguine, like a total lunar eclipse emoji

Impenetrable flan emoji

“Electrons Gone Wild” Spring Break Video emoji 

Blame the dog emoji

Let sleeping dogs fly emoji

My dog barks at air emoji

Fingerless air quotes emoji

Them and us emoji

Unexamined beliefs emoji

Subtherapeutic coffee relief emoji

Drinking coffee at night makes you dream faster emoji (Jim Jarmusch)

You’re killing me, Smalls emoji (Sandlot movie)

I make promises I can not keep emoji

Entropy my ass emoji

Unencumbered attosecond emoji

Let’s get a body tattoo of all the lyrics from the album ‘Goats Head Soup” by the Rolling Stones emoji

Featureless cult emoji

Find a penny, pick it up, all the day you’ll have good luck emoji

(photo from rollingstones.com)

He runs like The Simpson’s intro sofa emoji

He runs like he is being chased by The Simpson’s intro sofa emoji

It’s an architectural turducken emoji {Bob’s Burgers}

Cruelty-free stationers emoji (Simpsons)

Cruelty-free missionary visit emoji

Cruelty-free timeshare presentation emoji

Cruelty-free accordion emoji

Photo by Raoul Croes

It’s right to the left emoji

It’s alright to be left emoji

It’s alright to be left behind emoji

It is right to the left, where I left it…… right? emoji

African American hole emoji

Event horizon emoji

Event horizontal bars emoji

Waning gibbous emoji

The moon shall rise again emoji (Futurama)

Orion’s Belt is loose emoji

Dark matter can’t be detected… yet emoji

Darkness invades the light emoji

Stars give us stability emoji

Stars teach us distance emoji

(Photo of Rosette Nebula from NASA…. Thank you, NASA!)

Potato in the tailpipe emoji

Potato salad in the Chinaman’s pipe emoji

Butterflies don’t smell like butter emoji

Lucy in the skies with broken glass emoji

(Photo by NASA of blue supermoon, including ISS space station tracking across the moon)

Too old to drive sober emoji

Too old to die young emoji {Scott Dooley, John Hadley, Kevin Welch}

Too young to snore emoji

 “I’m too old to be wearing these clown socks, and they aren’t even mine!”… emoji.

A day without an umbrella emoji

A day without a kiss emoji

A day without a solution emoji

At the end of the day, it’s night emoji (Nick Kroll)

Up the proverbial creek without proper means of locomotion emoji

Up shit creek without a paddle emoji

When life gives you poop emojis, make poop juice emojis.

Turning diamonds back into coal emoji (Gregory Alan Isakov)

Turning gold back into stars emoji

Quantum popular mechanics emoji

Fermi’s paradox emoji

Pinocchio’s paradox emoji

Liar’s paradox emoji

Friendship paradox emoji

Birthday paradox emoji

Tea leaf paradox emoji

Schrödinger’s cat paradox emoji

Supporter of local team emoji

Supporter of team from an unpopular part of the country emoji

Supporter of team that moved to another city emoji

Supporter of an icon from the wrong side of history emoji

Desire for acceptance by a group you hate emoji

Photographer unknown, from FIFA.com

Tattooed babies emoji

Pigeon too fat to fly emoji

Otis is my dog emoji

“Otis-don’t-eat-that!” is my dog emoji

My dog, Otis, x 9

Fairy tale with vague moral to the story emoji

The light is burning brightly for the masses emoji {Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels movie}

A man tells himself many things emoji {Noah Hawley-Fargo tv show}

Addicted to odd numbers emoji

Addicted to prime numbers emoji

Addicted to odd prime numbers emoji

Addicted to the odd emoji

She said “moist” emoji

He said “slightly wet or damp” emoji

A disheartening lack of sarcasm emoji

No further questions emoji

Computer c0de emoji

Print(“\U0001F600”) emoji

:Insolubility: emoji

Infinite do loop emoji

Python was named for Monty emoji

Image from wallpapercave.com

If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break emoji {Memphis Minnie}

Like a paper airplane in the rain emoji (Noah Hawley)

Rain, please wash my sins away emoji

Gravedigger, when you dig my grave, could you make it shallow so that I can feel the rain emoji {Dave Matthews}

And it rained, like a slow divorce emoji {Robyn Hitchcock}

I can’t stand the rain emoji (Ann Peebles, Don Bryant, Bernie Miller)

I love the rain the most; when it stops emoji {Joe Purdy}

Gravity pulls emoji

Desire draws emoji

Opposites attract emoji

Similarities repel emoji

The world changes when I change emoji

Symphony of one emoji

Symphony of two emoji

Symphony for the devil emoji

Madness of one emoji

Folie à deux emoji

Hot potato emoji

Hot half-baked idea potato emoji

Only you can prevent sad pumpkins emoji (Matt Kasson)

Dark end of the chip bag emoji

Light moves at 186,000 miles per second (in a vacuum cleaner) emoji

Sarah Cynthia Stout, would not take the garbage out emoji (Shel Silverstein)

The piano doesn’t play, and it never did emoji (Caamp)

I threw stones at the sky, but the whole sky fell emoji (Gregory Alan Isakov)

Don’t eat an apple while washing dishes emoji

The train has left the station emoji

Inexperienced tree surgeon emoji

Monochromatic painting emoji

Gauche gouache emoji

Nature, nurture, or chance emoji [Professor Robert Sapolsky]

No visible means emoji

Killing two stones with one bird emoji

Killing two stones with one bird: The aftermath emoji

Until the end of this sentence emoji

This may take up to a minute emoji

Questionable muffin flavor emoji

Unfortunate body odor emoji

Perpetual emotion emoji

Destination unknown emoji

Regarding irregardless emoji

We warned you emoji

Pin their ears back emoji

Oh, for Pete’s sake emoji

Deductible met emoji

Neurochemical directive emoji

Wind at my side and god on my back emoji

God’s away on business emoji (Tom Waits)

All my fingers are on my hands emoji

Enter softly, touching nothing, slip away, without a sound emoji [Trampled by Turtles]

A friend of the devil is a friend of mine emoji [Robert Hunter]

Tin roof….. rusted emoji {B-52’s}

No was her name; No was the lion that no one could tame emoji [Wolf Larsen]

She sells sanctuary emoji [Ian Astbury, Billy Duffy]

And I choose the rooms that I live in with care, The windows are small and the walls almost bare, There’s only one bed and there’s only one prayer, I listen all night for your step on the stair emoji (Leonard Cohen)

.and the circus boy dances like a monkey on barbed wire emoji {Springsteen}

There before the grace of you go I emoji (Paul Simon)

Water in the fuel emoji (Fred Eaglesmith)

In without knocking emoji (Mission Mountain Wood Band)

Dumb smelly girls emoji
Salty two-headed boys emoji
Flunked Biology emoji
Flunked Biology again emoji
Changed majors emoji

Are you bragging or complaining emoji

Strong moral compassion emoji

My squalor is your squalor, but better emoji

Be strange, but don’t be a stranger emoji

Let the good times roll emoji (Rick Ocasek)

Is it enough? emoji

Emoji? I hardly knew ya! emoji

She can make nothing out of something emoji

Let’s get small emoji {Steve Martin}

Let’s go do some crime emoji {Repo Man}

Facial expression waiting to happen emoji

No capes emoji {Incredibles movie}

Precisely the wrong size emoji

Centripetal force much? emoji

She could lose an eye…. or gain one emoji

Pass me the ring, Bilbo emoji

Pass me the frankincense, Senator emoji

Yo, son of god, pass me the myrrh emoji

He should have passed the ball emoji

Where would we be if we didn’t try? emoji

Just be nice; unless they have a gun, then be really nice emoji

Only short haired people do crime emoji

Johnny Rotten emoji

Sadness doppelgänger emoji

Perpendicular to nothing emoji

Cookie hangover emoji

Posthumously watched emoji

The dude abode emoji

I need a good defense emoji

Beautimus emoji

Hi my little beastie emoji

Leaf me alone emoji

When you fight gravity, you lose emoji

Mercury in retrograde emoji

Man uses spork as knife emoji [The Onion]

Great balls of fireflies emoji

Settle a tied score emoji

Broken spoke emoji

Broken stoke emoji

Brooding cactus emoji

Enigmatic 2Pac emoji

Adult popup book emoji

Why don’t dogs tip? emoji

Ban prenatal spanking emoji [Zach Galifianakis]

Epigenetic Jane emoji

Rods and cones emoji

When it rains, it pours emoji

(Grand Canyon photo by Keegan Pelton)

I am my mother’s child emoji (Conor Oberst)

I am my mother’s father emoji

Slug Bug emoji

Slug Pug emoji

All my money is tied up in cash emoji

My fingers and toes are parallel; mostly emoji

Don’t pull that thread emoji

Hellbound hippy aura puncher emoji

Owned by my phone emoji

Owned by your phone emoji

Shake the tree emoji

Free breakroom food emoji

Death by cubicle emoji

Death by hangnail emoji

mural painting by Ben Rogers (@Wolfies_Grin)

I see” said the blind man as he walked into the wall emoji

Houses in Venice don’t have basements emoji

They played for a long time and there weren’t even any lyrics emoji

I’d like a Schweppe’s, please emoji

Mindful chatter emoji

Whispered intent emoji

Wistful smile emoji

88 lines about 44 women emoji [John Hall]

Detachable penis emoji [John Hall, Roger Murdock, Dave Rick, Chris Xefos]

Love is the drug emoji [Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay]

On Planet Claire, no one has a head emoji [Henry Mancini, Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland]

When I hurt, you feel the pain emoji [Robyn Hitchcock]

Let’s get normal at the luau emoji [David Lindley]

New snowfall emoji

First snowfall of winter emoji

First avalanche of emotion emoji

Unexpected trainwreck emoji

Private Idaho emoji [The B52’s]

Private joke emoji

Silhouette of love emoji

Lingering No Doubt emoji

Billy “My” Idol emoji

Jeepers creepers emoji

Faltering resilience emoji

The loneliness that coffee shops treat emoji

What fresh hell is this? emoji [Dorothy Parker]

Try to make it seem like you wrote it that way on purpose emoji [French Dispatch movie]

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering emoji [Tom Waits]

This wasn’t just plain terrible; this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it emoji [Dorothy Parker]

Ask for permission instead of forgiveness emoji

Losing my religion emoji (Michael Stipe)

Losing my identity emoji

Losing my wishes emoji

Belly button lint emoji

Pencil thin pencil emoji

Headlights on the highway emoji

I couldn’t do that emoji

When you’re cold, I’ll be there, and hold you tight to me emoji [Sade]

Where am I, and who are you? emoji

Gravity is my favorite law of physics emoji (“Asteroid City” movie)

Gravitational waves are badass emoji

Stop before you fall into the hole I have dug here emoji [Pete Yorn]

I don’t need a better thing, I’ll settle  for less emoji [Pete Yorn]

Hanami happens a femtosecond after the mountain rain ends emoji

Chindogu for the brilliantly impractical solution emoji

Kintsugi for repair of the shattered soul emoji

Derelict carb-uncles emoji

When a mind startles us emoji [Unknown]

One hand rapping emoji

Hands can’t be tongue tied emoji

Not on my watch emoji

Undefined hand gesture emoji

Undefined constant emoji

Concussion protocol emoji

Contrast governs resolution emoji

Dead battery emoji

“Bubbles” is a great name for a pet fish emoji

Pajama day emoji

Based on a true story emoji

A forgotten grace emoji

Dreams enough for half of us emoji

Never forget: Pluto 1930-2006 emoji

Your pants are on fire emoji

Your nose hair is on fire emoji

Your life is on fire emoji

Unencumbered cucumber emoji

Free the Glutens emoji [Tom Waits]

All hat and no cattle emoji [Osage tribe]

Check out the big brain on Spartacus emoji

Get that cat a beer emoji

Makeup for cats emoji

Chamber pot emoji

The razor’s edge emoji

Call and response emoji

Invisible costume emoji

Invisible friend emoji

Invisible friend that steals emoji {Bob’s Burger}

I am my dog’s emotional support animal emoji

Puppy running in her sleep emoji

Leaf me alone emoji

Mother’s little helper emoji

But there is a flag on the play emoji

My secret dimensionless box emoji

Right wing wrong beak emoji

May your children have children emoji

But here we are emoji

Perseus and Caput Medusæ emoji

They’re eating the dogs emoji

(photographer unknown, costume designer unknown)

Take this time to get right with your god(s) emoji

Light up the darkness emoji [Bob Marley]

White guilt catering emoji [Shrinking TV show]

Bored of the rings emoji [Doug Kenney, Henry Beard]

Helplessly hoping emoji (Steven Stills)

Helplessly homeless emoji

Up the proverbial creek without proper means of locomotion emoji (Unknown)

(painting by Mark Tansey, Title unknown)

Pilgrimage to nowhere emoji

Let us be normal on the dark end of the street emoji

Drunken cowboy hat emoji

Everyone hurts emoji {Michael Stipe}

Sometime emoji {Michael Stipe}

Nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada emoji (Nothing and then nothing and nothing and then nothing) [Ernest Hemingway]

¡Llama ya! emoji (Call now!)

Amargo como la vita emoji (Bitter as life)

¡Dios mio! emoji (My god!)

Te amo, mijo emoji (I love you, my son)

Pogue mahone emoji (Kiss my arse)

Bonne nuit emoji (Good night)

Wolf Larsen emoji

Sturgill Simpson emoji

Molly Tuttle emoji

Molly Tutelage emoji

Molly Tutankhamen emoji

Molly Turmeric XI hexafluorophosphate emoji

The no good very bad rotten metaphor emoji

When god wishes to punish us, he answers our prayers emoji (Oscar Wilde)

There is nothing without shadows except the light itself emoji (Pramoedya Ananta Toer)

Time isn’t holding us, time isn’t after us emoji (David Byrne)

The way you do anything is the way you do everything emoji (Tom Waits)

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t emoji (Tom Waits)

Expensive bicycle emoji

Expensive bicycle part emoji

Expensive bicycle race fee emoji

Too wild, never mild emoji [Margaretta Page]

Sounds crazy, tastes great emoji

Put him up against the wall, shoot him full of pentothal emoji (Bruce Cockburn)

We just couldn’t do the math emoji (Fred Eaglesmith)

You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant (exceptin’ Alice) emoji [Arlo Guthrie]

Goofin’ wid da bees emoji {Harry Nilsson}

Take me to the river emoji {David Byrne}

Dancing with Mr. D emoji (Stones)

11.15.24 Christmas bazaar emoji

Christmas. Bizarre story emoji

Don’t judge a book by its movie emoji (Unknown)

That’s always been my problem: people think I’m being vulgar when I’m being serious, and they think I’m being serious when I’m being vulgar emoji (John Byrum and Bill Murray)

The name of the town was “Sign Here” emoji

You know nothing, John Stark emoji (Game of Thrones)

I don’t need a better thing; I’ll settle for less emoji (Pete Yorn)

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Ina B Sentia

I am a shape shifter, but can never find my car keys. Chicks dig me, until they grow old enough to lay their own eggs. Guys want to be like me, which is why many of them are walking around with a fake ID.

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