# Just a test. Nothing to read. Move along. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 21, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792 "2001-04-21T17:54:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/1 "2001-04-21T17:54:23Z")
[šŸ˜›](http://moviegeek.homestead.com) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/2 "2001-04-21T17:56:34Z")
Okay, test successful. Yes, there was really a reason for that. It wasnā€™t just to stick out my tongue. I wanted to see if a smiley could be made into a link, all by itself. Obviously, it can. Iā€™m not really sure if thereā€™s a practical application, but it is interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/3 "2001-04-23T04:43:25Z")
ā€¦and thus, the road of SDMB science moves on ā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/4 "2001-04-23T04:53:32Z")
Oh, great. Now Iā€™m going to be checking smilies to see if theyā€™re links! šŸ˜› [sup]this smilie is _not_ a link[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/5 "2001-04-23T12:16:58Z")
Worse than that, Arden. Just imagine the kinds of links you could hide in a smilie. On second thought, donā€™t. Itā€™s just too vile to contemplate. šŸ˜› (The above smilie was not a link: Now weā€™re gonna have to put a disclaimer beside every smilie. Wonderful). ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/6 "2001-04-23T17:25:42Z")
Um, well,I was just curious, really ā€“ these odd ideas just come to me sometimes ā€“ but I suppose I may have to apologize at some point for inadvertently giving the trolls and yo-yos yet another tool for their ignorance-spreading mischief. Sighā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/7 "2001-04-23T23:34:15Z")
[:eek:](http://hometown.aol.com/j040766/index.html) Letā€™s see if that works. (Note: The above smiley _should_ be a linkā€¦) ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/8 "2001-04-24T05:00:55Z")
Another test: And another: šŸ˜ƒ Interestingly, initial spaces before a link get eaten, but terminal spaces donā€™t. The first test was a link of three spaces; the second, a link of a space, followed by a smiley, followed by a space. The moral? If youā€™re going to link spaces, always do it with a smile-- er, if youā€™re going to link a smiley, always do it with a space. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/9 "2001-04-24T05:05:57Z")
Yeah, yeah, I messed up the link. Shaddup. [šŸ˜ƒ](http://www.straightdope.com) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/10 "2001-04-24T17:27:18Z")
[      ](http://www.straightdope.com) Is that what you were trying to do? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/11 "2001-04-24T18:27:01Z")
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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/12 "2001-04-24T20:02:51Z")
Dammit, **Cervaise**! Thatā€™s just evil! ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/13 "2001-04-24T21:16:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > \*\*[      ](http://www.straightdope.com) > > Is that what you were trying to do? \*\* You just put in four more spaces, and it works? Hmmā€¦ Actually, the link I messed up was the _second_ one ā€¦ but 'sokay. Thanks, though. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/14 "2001-04-25T23:49:59Z")
man, this rocks! šŸ™‚ Cervaise, your ā€œPerhapsā€ was absolutely hilarious! a masterpiece. šŸ˜ƒ . i guess iā€™m gonna sniff every smiley from here onā€¦and all the others that donā€™t read this thread would only be wondering why i look like a police dog in trainingā€¦šŸ˜› ( standard disclaimer : none of the smilies have links ) damn, i can almost see people playing ā€œfirst person to find smilie with link winsā€ gamesā€¦i need sleep šŸ™‚ -xash. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-test-nothing-to-read-move-along/62792/15 "2001-04-26T15:56:23Z")
'nother test. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > \*\*[šŸ˜›](http://moviegeek.homestead.com) \*\*