Basically we had an old set of smilys that really changed forthree reasoms: one, because some people thought the current smilies didn't show all that they wanted them to show. 2, because basically the curent ones are better, a higher range of pictures (like
) which weren;t in the old set, plus some of the old ones had been given animation. 3rd, like the others said, one of the members made up a new set that the mods decided to use and further customise oddworld Forums, hence our little grey friends.
The fuzzles have been round longer than I have, no idea about the origins of those. I think I saved some of the original smilys onto my computer, i'll have to dig em up.