# microphone check

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microphone-check/83891>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [September 26, 2001, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microphone-check/83891 "2001-09-26T11:45:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Reinhold\_Messner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Reinhold\_Messner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reinhold_Messner)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microphone-check/83891/1 "2001-09-26T11:45:19Z")

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testing signature file . . . check . . . check 1 . . . check 2

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**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microphone-check/83891/2 "2001-09-27T05:56:08Z")

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Please don’t blow into it.

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**Author:** ![deepbluesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba9def/32.png) [@deepbluesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deepbluesea)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microphone-check/83891/3 "2001-09-28T07:36:25Z")

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Reinhold Messner, mmmm? Shouldn’t your sig be something along the lines of “Without Oxygen”? (Or, of course, you capitalize the o in without and reference both your username AND Red Dwarf.)

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**Author:** ![schief2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@schief2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schief2)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microphone-check/83891/4 "2001-09-28T07:40:43Z")

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So whaddya think about those unauthorized biographers of yours?