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Because the smilies are carefully chosen to be the same width in the columns they show in. If random you'd get several wide smilies on the same line and they'd either stretch the editor or cut into the place to type. It actually took some time and trial and error to get what I felt were a decent group of smilies that fit together well and to do so they had be kept in a specific order.