# \[del\]iciousness! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 24, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-iciousness/309684 "2005-06-24T16:13:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pythian\_Habenero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a6a055/32.png) [@Pythian\_Habenero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pythian_Habenero)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-iciousness/309684/41 "2005-06-30T15:40:48Z")
Let’s see… [del]Lah de dah de dah…[/del] .’.’.’.’[del].’.’.’.’[/del].’.’.’.’ Invisitext! Woo![del]… | //[/del] [del]–[/del]–[del]–[/del]–[del]…[/del]…[del]…[/del]…[del]…[/del] Just seeing if my coding skills are still up to par. Man, I love [del]strikethrough[/del] deleted text. What’s up with the “del” tags anyways? No efficient way to condense “strikethrough”? ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-iciousness/309684/42 "2005-06-30T15:54:31Z")
> [@Pythian Habenero](#): > > What’s up with the “del” tags anyways? No efficient way to condense “strikethrough”? In the original thread, I suggested words, or [strike]words[/strike], to no avail. Well, not to _no_ avail, but you get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Pythian\_Habenero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a6a055/32.png) [@Pythian\_Habenero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pythian_Habenero)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-iciousness/309684/43 "2005-06-30T16:06:39Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > In the original thread, I suggested words, or [strike]words[/strike], to no avail. Well, not to _no_ avail, but you get the idea. Yeah, I caught that. You talking to an empty quote is probably very confusing to people who have not yet learnt the art of highlighting. Whee! ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-iciousness/309684/44 "2005-06-30T16:07:34Z")
> [@gardentraveler](#): > > [del]+ 😃 +[/del] I love you _this_ much! ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-iciousness/309684/45 "2005-06-30T16:19:37Z")
> [@Pythian Habenero](#): > > You talking to an empty quote is probably very confusing to people who have not yet learnt the art of highlighting. Whee! That is their loss. ::Shrug:: ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-iciousness/309684/46 "2005-06-30T16:32:30Z")
And what was wrong with ^H? Guess us grizzled old-timers will hide our thoughts that way, and you new kids will use that silly^H^H^H^H^H new formatting. ---
**Author:** ![Pythian\_Habenero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a6a055/32.png) [@Pythian\_Habenero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pythian_Habenero)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-iciousness/309684/47 "2005-06-30T16:40:05Z")
At this point I believe this thread needs more [Baxil](http://www.tomorrowlands.org/jan2002.html#01062002). Ah, the sweet scent of classic Internet literature. Now if only I could find his essay on humour, complete with the Leaping Joy Kitty… ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-iciousness/309684/48 "2005-06-30T17:27:10Z")
I dont see the point. ---
**Author:** ![Pythian\_Habenero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a6a055/32.png) [@Pythian\_Habenero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pythian_Habenero)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-iciousness/309684/49 "2005-06-30T17:52:03Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > I dont see the point. I don’t see the apostrophe. Your point? ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-iciousness/309684/50 "2005-06-30T18:02:20Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > I dont see the point. I could just use this as a straight line. 🙂 , but I’ll assume you have read all the posts here and still don’t get it, rather then trying be annoying. Ok then, the joke is to just pretend that people are typing out Freudian slips, then, to be self-referencal, they are not erasing what they said, but showing what they feel via the typewriter editing technique of striking out words you will get ride of later. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-iciousness/309684/51 "2005-07-01T05:14:57Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > I could just use this as a straight line. 🙂 , but I’ll assume you have read all the posts here and still don’t get it, rather then trying be annoying. Ok then, the joke is to just pretend that people are typing out Freudian slips, then, to be self-referencal, they are not erasing what they said, but showing what they feel via the typewriter editing technique of striking out words you will get ride of later. Well, let me clarify… I guess I see the point, but I think it’s stupid. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/del-iciousness/309684/52 "2005-10-02T07:57:06Z")
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