# IF YOU WANT TO USE TEENSY-WEENSY TYPE, it's \[sub\] not \[SIZE=1\]!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 8, 2005, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593 "2005-03-08T23:47:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/41 "2005-03-09T00:33:51Z")

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> [@Askia](#):
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> :: Deep breath :: Okay. Problem solved. I I returned font size to the medium setting. Uh, sorry about, uh, calling you fine people… uh… y’know. That word. Uh… I apologize. You’ve been just terrific and I sincerely hope you’ll take this apology in the spirit it’s intended. Really.
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> Slinks off… quietly… doesn’t bother to smallify font size…

Hey, I’m too dru… er… tired to be able to detect any tension in this thread. to me it’s all been in good humour.

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**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/42 "2005-03-09T00:42:14Z")

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**Monstre.** I can do ten silly rants easy. (“I pit dopers with confusingly similar screen names! **Monstre! monstro! monster! munster!** ”) But where’s the fun in that? I think we can all agree it’s far more entertaining when I go off half-cocked on something I’m absolutely dead serious about and it turns out to be something extremely minor.

**Lobsang.** This is more at averting hard feelings. I don’t mind calling people fuckwits if they deserve it, but this was plainly uncalled for. I was just showing off the potty mouth in the pit. See, I don’t even dri… get tired at 8:00pm What’s my excuse? \>grinning icon\<

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/43 "2005-03-09T00:50:31Z")

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> [@Askia](#):
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> **Lobsang.** This is more at averting hard feelings. I don’t mind calling people fuckwits if they deserve it, but this was plainly uncalled for. I was just showing off the potty mouth in the pit. See, I don’t even dri… get tired at 8:00pm What’s my excuse? \>grinning icon\<

**Askia** I promise you - when I said it all seemed in good humour I meant it. There were never any hard feelings in the first place, let alone any that required averting.  
As it happens I insist on using [sub] for tiny text rather than [size=1]. Where coding is concerned I am (or was) a perfectionist. (I am a programmer by nature and I always insisted on absolute perfect ‘coding standards’ in my own coding. It mattered more that my code was indented by two spaces than whether the overall program worked perfectly)

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**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/44 "2005-03-09T00:51:33Z")

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I’m glad you mentioned it because I notice all these posts where people obviously wanted to make a comment in smaller type but it ended up with bigger type. I’ve wanted to do smaller type myself but after attempting it a couple times and never being able to get it right on preview, I gave up.

Obviously I wasn’t clever enough to figure it out for myself, so thanks for the tip.

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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/45 "2005-03-09T01:03:13Z")

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> [@Askia](#):
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> I think we can all agree it’s far more entertaining when I go off half-cocked on something I’m absolutely dead serious about and it turns out to be something extremely minor.

Exactly. And now you just need to complete 9 more of them and you’re on the way to a new straightjacket. Complete with logo: “Straight Dope: Driving Me Nuts Since 1973”

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/46 "2005-03-09T01:13:28Z")

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> [@Askia](#):
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> **Monstre.** I can do ten silly rants easy. (“I pit dopers with confusingly similar screen names! **Monstre! monstro! monster! munster!** ”) But where’s the fun in that?

Plus, it’s been done before.

Size matters.

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**Author:** ![flood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/47 "2005-03-09T01:42:47Z")

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> [@Askia](#):
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> **Monstre.** I can do ten silly rants easy. (“I pit dopers with confusingly similar screen names! **Monstre! monstro! monster! munster!** ”) But where’s the fun in that? I think we can all agree it’s far more entertaining when I go off half-cocked on something I’m absolutely dead serious about and it turns out to be something extremely minor.
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> **Lobsang.** This is more at averting hard feelings. I don’t mind calling people fuckwits if they deserve it, but this was plainly uncalled for. I was just showing off the potty mouth in the pit. See, I don’t even dri… get tired at 8:00pm What’s my excuse? \>grinning icon\<

**Lobsang** has always reminded me of “lobster”. I don’t know if I’ve ever told him/her that before. :dubious:

T[sub]h[/sub][sup]e[/sup]s[sub]e[/sub] [sup]a[/sup]l[sub]l[/sub] [sup]l[/sup]o[sub]o[/sub][sup]k[/sup] t[sub]h[/sub][sup]e[/sup] s[sub]a[/sub][sup]m[/sup]e [sub]t[/sub][sup]o[/sup] m[sub]e[/sub]

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**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/48 "2005-03-09T02:03:21Z")

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Or you can always do what I do and ignore those sentences that are typed in the itty-bitty font. I mean, the poster doesn’t really want that stuff read anyway, right? If they wanted you to read it, they’d put it in normal size, DUH!

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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 9, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/49 "2005-03-09T03:11:29Z")

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> [@Monstre](#):
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> > [@Askia](#):
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> > Okay, okay… it’s a quirk. I get it. This has been driving me nuts for months. I bet there’s no chance of this thread just sinking ignobly to the bottom of the page now, eh?
> 
> Well, you could always ask a mod to lock it, but until then, the rest of us might just continue to gleefully point out your insanity and offer you a free straightjacket fitting.
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> Muhahahahahahha!!!

Well, I don’t see any requests to close the thread, so I think I’ll just bump it to the top as I point at **Askia** and smirk.

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**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/50 "2005-03-09T03:25:56Z")

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Thanks, **Tom**. And to think I would have missed **Askia’s** little faux pas had you not bumped the thread!

😉

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**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/51 "2005-03-09T13:32:40Z")

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Yeah, what the hell is wrong with that Askia guy anyway?

[sub]Can I throw fruit?[/sub]

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**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/52 "2005-03-09T15:56:57Z")

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> [@Lobsang](#):
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> Askia, do you have the Arial font? Everyone else, are posts shown using the Arial font?

subYes,[/sub] and subnot[/sub] only subthat,[/sub] my subeyesight[/sub] is subso[/sub] crummy subthat[/sub] “Arial” sublooks[/sub] like sub"Anal"[/sub] on submy[/sub] screen.

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/53 "2005-03-09T16:15:21Z")

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> [@sweetfreak](#):
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> I’ll fuckin’ use size=1 if I want to. Who made you God?

I second this. Besides, I just use the little drop-down menu that does it for me. I’m lazy, see?

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/54 "2005-03-09T17:10:04Z")

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[sub=2]Is this smaller?[/sub]  
[sub]Or this?[/sub]

Ooooh! I feel all Optomitrist-y!

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**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/55 "2005-03-09T17:13:44Z")

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Nuts. I have the exact same problem as **Askia** (Size=1 is huge in my Linux Firefox browser) and opened this thread hoping to find a big old circle-jerk of agreement, perhaps with a collective decision to ban Size=1 forever. Instead, I found a big old circle-jerk of disagreement and mockery, the worst kind of circle-jerk. [sub]At least when you’re outside the circle…[/sub]

Sigh.

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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 9, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/56 "2005-03-09T17:28:39Z")

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**Marlitharn** , didn’t you really mean this:

subYes,[/sub] and [sup]not[/sup] only subthat,[/sub] my [sup]eyesight[/sup] is subso[/sub] crummy [sup]that[/sup] “Arial” sublooks[/sub] like [sup]“Anal”[/sup] on submy[/sub] screen.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/57 "2005-03-09T17:31:23Z")

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Ok, I’ve read it about 5 times and I can’t tell the difference.

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**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/58 "2005-03-09T17:35:42Z")

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It’s three levels: Like [sup]this,[/sup] instead [sub]of[/sub] being [sup]on[/sup] two [sub]levels[/sub] like [sup]the[/sup] other [sub]post[/sub] had [sup]been.[/sup]

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**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/59 "2005-03-09T17:48:27Z")

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_/[sup]_/–\_[/sup]\_[sub]–/[/sub]\_/ Conjoined martians.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-want-to-use-teensy-weensy-type-its-sub-not-size-1/293593/60 "2005-03-09T18:32:23Z")

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> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#):
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> [sub=2]Is this smaller?[/sub]  
> [sub]Or this?[/sub]
> 
> Ooooh! I feel all Optomitrist-y!

[sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub][sub]Is this small enough for you?  
EENSY WEENSY TEENY TINY TEXT[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]X

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