# \[b

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b/160931
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 12, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b/160931 "2003-03-12T20:56:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![PHA\_for\_life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PHA\_for\_life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PHA_for_life)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b/160931/1 "2003-03-12T20:56:08Z")

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**he.llo**

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### Author: ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b/160931/2 "2003-03-12T21:11:56Z")

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Huh?

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### Author: ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b/160931/3 "2003-03-12T21:34:23Z")

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_wanders out again looking dazed and confused_

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### Author: ![PHA\_for\_life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PHA\_for\_life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PHA_for_life)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b/160931/4 "2003-03-12T21:39:23Z")

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i’m sorry i don’t know what happen to this thread.

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### Author: ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b/160931/5 "2003-03-12T21:47:55Z")

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Do yourself a favor, **PHA**. E-mail a mod and ask them to close this thread. (That will give the good impression that you are serious about posting the correct stuff in the correct place and not simply spamming the board with bad keystrokes.)

If you had intended to ask a question with a factual answer, post it again in this Forum.

If you had intended to simply offer a friendly greeting to the Teeming Millions from a newbie, then post that greeting in the **MPSIMS** Forum.

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### Author: ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b/160931/6 "2003-03-12T21:50:08Z")

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(Oh, by the way, the titles for threads do not accept vB code, so you cannot **bold** , _italicize_, or underscore\* words in the titles.)

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### Author: ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b/160931/7 "2003-03-12T21:51:38Z")

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Or even underscore them.

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### Author: ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b/160931/8 "2003-03-12T22:05:20Z")

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😕