### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clubs-cool-spades-dagger/167215/1 "2003-04-08T01:59:24Z")
♣ I ❤ this new toy!
Sorry to bug everyone, but I’ve just read the faq in **About this Message Board** and have discovered that we can put cool symbols in our posts. (I also discovered some new vb code - [sup] superscript text [/sup], and the ability to show vb script without it activating!)
I know this is probably common knowledge. I just discovered it.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clubs-cool-spades-dagger/167215/2 "2003-04-08T02:01:30Z")
Whoops. The symbols did not work in the title (a fact which cannot be checked with a Preview) oh well. It was good while it lasted.
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### Author:  [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clubs-cool-spades-dagger/167215/3 "2003-04-08T02:04:08Z")
::hug:: Sorry, **Lobsang**.
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### Author:  [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clubs-cool-spades-dagger/167215/4 "2003-04-08T02:26:37Z")
Everyone should read both FAQs in ATMB. If somebody proposed passing a quiz on those documents as a prerequisite for registering on the board, I’d be first in line to support the idea.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clubs-cool-spades-dagger/167215/5 "2003-04-08T02:32:02Z")
The symbols do not work with Netscape 4.7.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clubs-cool-spades-dagger/167215/6 "2003-04-08T02:32:15Z")
You are right, but I believe it is ok to not read faqs if you subscribe to the one rule ‘don’t be a Jerk’
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clubs-cool-spades-dagger/167215/7 "2003-04-08T02:47:40Z")
Oh my God - preskaŭ freŝa ĉeĥa manĝaĵo!
(the esperantist says 😃 😃 )
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clubs-cool-spades-dagger/167215/8 "2003-04-08T05:18:14Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Lobsang \*
> \*\*You are right, but I believe it is ok to not read faqs if you subscribe to the one rule ‘don’t be a Jerk’ \*\*
Reading the FAQs = enlightenment.
It also cuts down on the incidence of old farts like me scowling across at you, and sayin’, “Eh? You’re askin’ about _what??_ It’s in th’ FAQs, ya whippersnapper! Go read the things!”
Peace and harmony result. Sometimes. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clubs-cool-spades-dagger/167215/9 "2003-04-08T08:12:43Z")
Not that I am saying a faq is not necesary here - but Faqs tend to be most useful in very specificl places, such as a Harry Potter newsgroup, to stop such questions as “when does book 5 come out”.
It doesn’t work of course.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clubs-cool-spades-dagger/167215/10 "2003-04-08T08:15:07Z")
Perhaps a bit late to mention this but - I did read _a_ faq very early on in my SDMB. It is the faq that I just read that I, er, just read.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clubs-cool-spades-dagger/167215/11 "2003-04-08T11:31:51Z")
**Ice Wolf** : No, overfeatured eye candy window manager == Enlightenment. †
😃
† It’s a Linux thing.\*
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### Author:  [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clubs-cool-spades-dagger/167215/12 "2003-04-08T11:59:39Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \*
> The symbols do not work with Netscape 4.7.
You mean Navigator 4.7, and you’re right. Special symbols like this do not consistently work in Navigator or Internet Explorer, and the Symbol font does not work in Netscape or Mozilla. People who care about people being able to read their posts are encouraged not to use either of these features.
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clubs-cool-spades-dagger/167215/13 "2003-04-08T12:00:57Z")
Okay, **Derleth** , I’ll believe you. 😃
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### Author:  [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clubs-cool-spades-dagger/167215/14 "2003-04-08T15:58:03Z")
This thread reminds me of two bumper stickers I saw on the back of a car many years ago:
I ♣ my wife
I ♠ my dog