1813: Vomiting Emoji

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{{comic
| number = 1813
| date = March 20, 2017
| title = Vomiting Emoji
| image = vomiting_emoji.png
| titletext = My favorite might be U+1F609 U+1F93F WINKING FACE VOMITING.
}}
==Explanation==
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This comic relates to the recent Unicode proposal for a vomiting emoji. Megan believes that there should be vomiting versions of all emoji. She writes up a proposal, putting the new modifier at U+1F93F. Six example emojis are given, being progressively more nonsensical, starting with a vomiting cowboy and ending with a vomiting hand. Randall states that his favorite possibility is a winking face vomiting.

Unicode is the computing industry standard for representing text. More recent additions have included emoji characters, such as grinning face (😁) or a clap symbol (👏)

Unicode also supports "combining modifiers". These allow, for example, accents to be placed on characters that do not have an accented version elsewhere. There are also modifiers for emojis, usually intended to modify skin tone. Megan's proposal is to add another one of these modifiers for vomiting, so that any emoji could conceivably be vomiting.

A list of the emojis:

'''Vomiting Cowboy''': This seems reasonable and not much worse off than the regular one.

'''Vomiting Statue of Liberty''': Given the turbulent political climate in present-day America, this emoji might see a lot of use by opinionated folks.

'''Vomiting Dove''': As the dove is usually seen as a symbol of peace, a vomiting one could be construed as an omen for war.

'''Vomiting Moon''': This might seem just a little odd as the moon is made of rock and can not vomit<ref>[http://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html Space.com] Composition and fun facts about moon</ref>.

'''Vomiting rocket ship''': This might be a reference to the "Vomit Comet" rocket that astronauts train on. Also, space travel can be associated with vomiting. However, since the cabins of rocket ships should be airtight when in flight, vomit coming out of a flying rocket indicates a serious problem.

'''Vomiting Hand''': This one is just bizarre. Maybe it could be used in the context of some horror flick?

'''Winking Face Vomiting''' (Title text): This suggests that the context in which a wink is used is combined with vomiting to humorous effect.

In [[1726: Unicode]], Randall proposed a "brontosaurus" emoji in Unicode.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball, looking at his smartphone, approaches Megan who is sitting at a desk working on her laptop.]
:Cueball: The proposed emoji for Unicode 10.0 look good.
:Megan: Hmm. [vomiting emoji] "U+1F92E FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH VOMITING"

:[Cueball is holding his device lower and no longer looking at it.]
:Cueball: Eww.
:Megan: Really, "vomiting" should be a combining modifier, so you can use it to make a vomiting version of any emoji.
:Cueball: Umm.
:Megan: I'm gonna write up a proposal.

:U+1F93F VOMITING MODIFIER
:[cowboy emoji vomiting] U+1F920 U+1F93F VOMITING COWBOY
:[Statue of Liberty emoji vomiting] U+1F5FD U+1F93F VOMITING STATUE OF LIBERTY
:[dove emoji vomiting, with an olive branch near its head] U+1F54A U+1F93F VOMITING DOVE
:[first quarter moon with face emoji vomiting] U+1F31B U+1F93F VOMITING MOON
:[rocket ship emoji with vomit coming from its window] U+1F680 U+1F93F VOMITING ROCKET SHIP
:[hand emoji with a hole in it, vomit is coming from that hole] U+270B U+1F93F VOMITING HAND

==References==
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1813: Vomiting Emoji