How hard to add 100 customized Smilies?

[DeveloperMcD]

On my old forum, Mercuryboard (circa 2006), and many other boards, you had dozens of possible smilies, which were triggered by custom text like

:really-mad:
:frying-pan:
:alcohol:

etc.

It looks like all the smilie functionality of SMF is centered on a set-in-stone group of 20 ascii faces like ":-0" and so forth.
Even the features and mods I looked at (on the topic of "smilies") has been centered around this very limited set of 20!

Am I the only one who thinks that is extremely limited, and limiting?

How can I implement something like Mercuryboard had, where people click a smilie and it inserts it, via text like
:shooting:
:racecar:

and that is converted into actual smilies at display time, kind of like BBCode.

Any help would be appreciated.

Matthew

[Kindred]

You can add new smilies...   rad the FAQ/wiki

[landyvlad]

There are PLENTY of smileys out there, and uploading and managing them is pretty straight-forward.

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Add_a_smiley_set

Best way to get smilies is to 'harvest' your favourites from other forums you are on, or google images, or there are a few smiley packs here and there.