# My mind's gone blank- how do you do spoilers again?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-minds-gone-blank-how-do-you-do-spoilers-again/300024>\
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**Created:** [April 19, 2005, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-minds-gone-blank-how-do-you-do-spoilers-again/300024 "2005-04-19T10:00:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-minds-gone-blank-how-do-you-do-spoilers-again/300024/1 "2005-04-19T10:00:28Z")

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Is there a really obvious button I’m not seeing, or something?

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**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-minds-gone-blank-how-do-you-do-spoilers-again/300024/2 "2005-04-19T10:31:56Z")

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No button, just tags:

[Spoiler] and [/Spoiler]

Without the spaces, of course.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-minds-gone-blank-how-do-you-do-spoilers-again/300024/3 "2005-04-19T12:30:57Z")

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the spaces

Now I’m really confused.

😃😃

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**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-minds-gone-blank-how-do-you-do-spoilers-again/300024/4 "2005-04-19T13:47:30Z")

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Pbbbbt.

Smart aleck 😛 😃

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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:** [April 19, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-minds-gone-blank-how-do-you-do-spoilers-again/300024/5 "2005-04-19T16:20:11Z")

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Here’s without spaces for you…

they’ve picked a pope

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**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-minds-gone-blank-how-do-you-do-spoilers-again/300024/6 "2005-04-20T04:54:46Z")

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Here goes nothing…

Thanks guys!

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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-minds-gone-blank-how-do-you-do-spoilers-again/300024/7 "2005-04-20T06:50:11Z")

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whoo hoo! I’m masturbating like a motherfuck and nobody can see!!.. whoo hoo!