# Peace Sign Test... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 17, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299 "2014-04-17T00:20:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/1 "2014-04-17T00:20:53Z")
I’ve always wondered if I could post a peace sign in my thread text. This test will settle that question: ☮ Well, so far it seems to have worked. BTW, if any of the rest of you want to post a peace sign in your thread (make sure it’s relevant, first, of course) and if the mods approve it, there are two ways you can do it. Find the peace sign in your character map. Or you can just use mine. Simply highlight the peace sign in this post, copy and paste. It’s that simple. Yeah, the peace sign is near and dear to me. I’m too young to remember the 60s. But in my heart of hearts, I do consider myself an anachronistic hippie. Seriously:). What other strange text would the rest of you like to post? You can try it here, if you want. :)☮🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/2 "2014-04-17T00:28:20Z")
Testing ☮ ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/3 "2014-04-17T01:14:23Z")
**☮** Sweeet. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/4 "2014-04-17T01:46:14Z")
I’m taking one… > [@](#): > > * * * > > Yesssss! Thanks so much, **Jim**! ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/5 "2014-04-17T01:47:55Z")
Well, crap! It won’t work for me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/6 "2014-04-17T01:49:26Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > * * * > > Sweeet. One more try? I give. It’s either because of my phone or Tapatalk. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/7 "2014-04-17T02:41:00Z")
Just so you are aware, I see a medium sized thick square in Jim B.'s post, a slightly taller green rectangle in Oakminster’s post, and a small grey rectangle in janis\_and\_c0’s post. I see no peace signs. Feel free to post them, but recognize that they are not being displayed for all users. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/8 "2014-04-17T02:58:52Z")
Testing on an iPad: ☮ Rendered smaller than what I copied, but it’s there. I like it! ☮. ☮. ☮ ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/9 "2014-04-17T08:26:24Z")
Growing up, I always wondered why my parents kept drawing Mercedes badges in the books they read as teenagers. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/10 "2014-04-17T10:24:16Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > I see no peace signs. Nor will you, as long as Kirk lives. ---
**Author:** ![jfreakofkorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jfreakofkorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jfreakofkorn)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/11 "2014-04-17T11:19:57Z")
was designed as the logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and adopted by anti-war and counterculture activists in the United States and elsewhere. The V hand signal and the peace flag also became international peace symbols > **[Peace symbols](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbols)** > > A number of peace symbols have been used many ways in various cultures and contexts. The dove and olive branch was used symbolically by early Christians and then eventually became a secular peace symbol, popularized by a Dove lithograph by Pablo Picasso after World War II. In the 1950s the "peace sign", as it is known today (also known as "peace and love"), was designed by Gerald Holtom as the logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), a group at the forefront of the peace mo ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/12 "2014-04-17T23:56:15Z")
I assumed we were going after this: [![](http://i.pinimg.com/736x/33/b0/62/33b0624cb9f8fa101ab794a7c06b4ebe.jpg) ](http://i.pinimg.com/736x/33/b0/62/33b0624cb9f8fa101ab794a7c06b4ebe.jpg) Seriously, I installed an extension in Chrome to see Emoji, so I see the peace signs posted above. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/13 "2014-04-18T02:53:50Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Just so you are aware, I see a medium sized thick square in Jim B.'s post, a slightly taller green rectangle in Oakminster’s post, and a small grey rectangle in janis\_and\_c0’s post. > > I see no peace signs. No Unicode, no peace. Know Unicode, know peace. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/14 "2014-04-18T03:01:07Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > No Unicode, no peace. > Know Unicode, know peace. No peas? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/15 "2014-04-18T04:14:50Z")
☜☻☞ ---
**Author:** ![PeacePlease](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@PeacePlease](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeacePlease)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/16 "2014-04-18T09:59:40Z")
It’s near and dear to me too, as evidenced by my user name. So I had to post it at least this once… ☮ Why can’t I make it bigger??? Whine! ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/17 "2014-04-18T12:27:05Z")
> [@PeacePlease](#): > > It’s near and dear to me too, as evidenced by my user name. So I had to post it at least this once… > ☮ > > Why can’t I make it bigger??? Whine! ☮ ☮ Put sizing tags around it! I just figured that out by quoting someone else’s picture that rendered big. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/18 "2014-04-18T12:57:37Z")
I got a 67 on my peace sign test. Is that passing? ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/19 "2014-04-18T13:45:26Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > I got a 67 on my peace sign test. > > Is that passing? Only in the left lane. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299/20 "2014-04-18T13:51:08Z")
I’ll give it a chance. ☮ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peace-sign-test/686299.md?page=2)