# doot \*test\* doot
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [December 3, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531 "2001-12-03T00:59:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531/1 "2001-12-03T00:59:04Z")
don’t mind me, i’m just seeing how this operation runs.🙂
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### Author:  [@sleeptrainer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeptrainer)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531/2 "2001-12-03T01:05:45Z")
Is that the “doot doot lady” who runs the checkout scanner on Family Circus? I love that line!
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### Author:  [@Infectious\_Lass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infectious_Lass)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2001, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531/3 "2001-12-04T10:49:28Z")
Just testin’ a signiture and link type thingy-
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### Author:  [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2001, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531/4 "2001-12-04T11:04:20Z")
testing, testing, 123…
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### Author:  [@Infectious\_Lass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infectious_Lass)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2001, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531/5 "2001-12-04T11:08:04Z")
Darn! no hyperlink! grrr…I’ll have to rethink this a bit…
Oh I hope that it is okay to post a link to my site in the sig-I hope that doesn’t breach any ettiquette!
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### Author:  [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2001, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531/6 "2001-12-04T12:54:36Z")
**I. L.** :
Try using vB code in your .sig to produce a hyperlink (I have a link in mine, for instance). Syntax would be:
[**url=“[http://pub34.ezboard.com/btheveryvioletboardaboutcomicsandstuff](http://pub34.ezboard.com/btheveryvioletboardaboutcomicsandstuff)”]This is my board![**/url]
which would look like:
[This is my board!](http://pub34.ezboard.com/btheveryvioletboardaboutcomicsandstuff)
in your .sig (you can, of course, put whatever you want instead of “This is my board!”). Evidently the software isn’t auto-parsing the URL in your .sig for some reason.
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### Author:  [@Infectious\_Lass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infectious_Lass)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2001, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531/7 "2001-12-04T15:09:34Z")
let’s see…[The Very Violet Board!](http://pub34.ezboard.com/btheveryvioletboardaboutcomicsandstuff)
Thanks for the tip zut!
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### Author:  [@Infectious\_Lass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infectious_Lass)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2001, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531/8 "2001-12-04T15:14:28Z")
testing, testing, hopefully second time is the charm…
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### Author:  [@Infectious\_Lass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infectious_Lass)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531/9 "2001-12-04T15:17:10Z")
D’oh! Forgot the sig!
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### Author:  [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2001, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531/10 "2001-12-04T23:17:57Z")
Font test
\Font test\.
Who’s got the font test?
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### Author:  [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531/11 "2001-12-04T23:19:08Z")
Clearly not I…
Test, test.
Test and test.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2001, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531/12 "2001-12-05T10:07:59Z")
[font face=times]test[/font]
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### Author:  [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2001, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doot-test-doot/96531/13 "2001-12-05T13:13:56Z")
No additional fonts are available except for symbol, the tags for which are:
[**sym]Put this in symbol[**/sym]
which shows up on-screen as
[sym]Put this in symbol[/sym]
There is also a semi-bug which allows the post font to be switched from the normal Arial into default Times (but not back) exactly once per post in some browsers. This is discussed in the thread, [_Changing type faces: how does the use of brackets affect this?_](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=99747)