What the $#%@ is an "obscenicon"?

I think it's when you you use a proctolological photo as your avatar.

What Language Log has to say on the subject.

Here is an interesting article about it in Slate. This article says that in 1964 Mort Walker (creator of Beetle Bailey) called the term grawlix .

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Originally posted by zmježd:
obscenicon

Thank you for my snicker of the day-- directed at "Cat on the Mat." Gad I'm sick of seeing that character plaster the preschool halls every yr while B&N or Scholastic or somebody makes a buck off him!

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