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Hey, stop goofing around in the backseat!
London_Calling, this wouldn’t have anything to do with a certain upcoming global sports event, now, would it? 
The ball ran up his trouser leg and hit his middle wicket?
I get knocked down, but I get up again. You’re never gonna keep me down!
kabbes: Swollen wicket isn’t cricket!
wht?
has been deactivated?
Well, apparently No it hasn’t
But you can
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[color=#000000]Use different colors in spoiler tags[/color]
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If anyone can put a font tag inside another font tag inside a spoiler (to colour the dots black), we’d be ready to go !
Coldie - I got out of it 
kabbes - We must have gone to different schools …
Everyone else - You’re all bonkers !
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[/spoiler]
Okay, revise that: If anyone can put a font tag inside a code tag (to change the default font), we’d be ready to go.
Hey, leave my wicket out of this!
There’s also fun with greek. You can write messages that can only be seen when replied to.
[symbol]Messages like this! Opal is number three but smells like number two! Coldfire and Arnold Winkelried are the love children of TVeblen and manhattan! The moon is made of bleu cheese![/symbol]
Unless you are able to read the Greek alphabet, of course.
O’course. Can’t fool everyone all the time.
You know, Wikkit, it’s not nice to talk about people like that. I was able to understand every word, even if the 'j’s and 'v’s were problematic.
I keep reading this as ‘people like that’ being the people I mentioned, making that say that it’s not nice to talk about Opal or the mods…
Wingdings isn’t a font in MacOS9 and below, and maybe not in X either, so that obfuscation method has it’s fallcies as well.
Ben