# Practicing - please ignore **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 19, 2001, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664 "2001-09-19T20:35:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/1 "2001-09-19T20:35:58Z")
This is a link to [IMDB](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0179803) This is a **bolded** statement ---
**Author:** ![atypicalcarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@atypicalcarl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atypicalcarl)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/2 "2001-09-19T23:10:27Z")
> [@](#): > > **Practicing - Please Ignore** Sorry for getting off-topic, but I wanted to try quoting. ---
**Author:** ![atypicalcarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@atypicalcarl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atypicalcarl)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/3 "2001-09-20T14:13:58Z")
This should set the font to Home This should set the size to 4 This should set the color to blue [ol] [li]this is my first point[/li][li]this is my second point[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/4 "2001-09-20T14:45:04Z")
gotta ask, carl. Is it “a typical” or “atypical.” Are you or are you not representative of most carls? Or is it a mystery? ---
**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/5 "2001-09-20T19:20:28Z")
testing here ---
**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/6 "2001-09-20T19:23:29Z")
testing here ---
**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/7 "2001-09-20T19:48:13Z")
\testing\ ---
**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:** [September 20, 2001, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/8 "2001-09-20T20:22:12Z")
**BF** , try [**sub]subscript[**/sub] or [**sup]superscript[**/sup], thus: [sub]subscript[/sub] or [sup]superscript[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![atypicalcarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@atypicalcarl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atypicalcarl)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2001, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/9 "2001-09-20T20:42:27Z")
> [@](#): > > _Posted by Furt_ > **Are you or are you not representative of most carls?** I am representative of most carls only because most carls are atypical of the other carls. Hope that clears it up for you.🙂 P.S. [sub]Thanks for the size tip,[/sub] **Chronos** ---
**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/10 "2001-09-21T16:30:07Z")
Hah, thanks **Chronos** , just when I figured out how to do this, I come back to this page and you’ve already hooked me up. Thanks again. [sub]woo[/sub]-[sup]hoo!![/sup] ---
**Author:** ![k.os](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@k.os](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k.os)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/11 "2001-09-22T01:30:20Z")
[sup]Just[sup]testing[sup]don’t[sup]mind[sup]me[/sup].[/sup]Wow![/sup]this[/sup]really[/sup]works![sub]And[sub]it[sub]it[sub]can[/sub]both[/sub]directions[/sub]too![/sub] [sub]::slinks off whistling, trying to look nonchalant, trips over rug…::[/sub] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![k.os](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@k.os](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k.os)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/12 "2001-09-22T01:33:19Z")
Now why did it do [s ub]?? When I previewed it was fine, and when I Back-Clicked to it, there was no space… Oh well… ---
**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:** [September 22, 2001, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/13 "2001-09-22T19:31:39Z")
Sometimes when vB sees a really long line, it breaks it up by putting in a space. It doesn’t realize that even though codes take up space in the file, they don’t take up space on the screen, so with all of your subs and sups, it looked like a long line. ---
**Author:** ![k.os](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@k.os](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k.os)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/14 "2001-09-23T05:55:08Z")
Ah! That’s what it was! I guess it’s like it’s trying to justify it (justified text, in which the program inserts spaces to make the text fille the lines more evenly) or something. Thanks for the explanation, **Chronos**! ---
**Author:** ![UniversalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8491ac/32.png) [@UniversalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UniversalGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/15 "2001-09-23T06:12:47Z")
This is an underlined thingie. ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/16 "2001-09-24T15:28:31Z")
testing disabling smilies 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RavingMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/edb3f5/32.png) [@RavingMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RavingMad)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/17 "2001-09-25T00:57:31Z")
You can see a picture [here](http://www.GreatBuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/U.S._Supreme_Court.html/cid_2887618.gbi) ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/18 "2001-09-25T02:20:41Z")
Hmmm, wonder if this’ll work. ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/19 "2001-09-25T03:51:01Z")
testing my new sig. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2001, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practicing-please-ignore/82664/20 "2001-09-25T13:40:26Z")
Testing a sig as well…move along, nothing to see here…(Lunatic, you need to check the little box under your reply for the sig to show up before you hit post reply)