Pssssst! Gimme the codes, man!

I seek the secret codes, my good fellows. I need you, yes… YOU, to give me all the codes used here on the boards to make that type all fancy like and cool, K?

I’m a dork and I’m gonna make me a list of the codes so I, too, can be a cool poster. That is the one thing I lack… the ancient and forbidden Knowledge of the Codes!! Muahhhh ha haaa! evil cackling fades away :dubious:

Naught into naught = naught

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Font (arial)

Link (bbc news)

Colour

To make the fancy codes use the font, size, and colour codes. The secret is to use the picturey fonts (wingdings, webdings wingdings2 etc…)

I forgot the size code…

Big text

Oooooooooh! The CODES, THE CODES!

shudders
Hee hee, thanks, man!

My sig was made using webdings in green with a size of 20
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Webding codes
Wingding codes

One of those links caused a popup explosion when I closed it.

Oops, sorry. I’ve got the Google popup blocker so I didn’t notice. Good thing to have installed anyway.

Actually all the popups closed themselves instantly if I leave them alone. I have a habit of pouncing on them as soon as they show themselves, but these ones had the courtesy to commit suicide.

Good GOD, Lobsang!!! You have THAT much free time???
SHIT…
Who is the smilie artist again?

searches back into the murky depths of her mind, comes up blank

And of course

It turns out it was all a dream.

for not giving things away, mostly in Cafe Society. Looks like this:

It turns out it was all a dream.

Not to be a huge wet blanket or anything, but you have scrolled all the way to the bottom of the page when reading the Dope, haven’t you?

[sub]That link called vB code is perty helpful.[/sub]

Hmmmm… I get to the submit area and that’s about it. I’ve only been here since…

Press ‘post reply’ instead of using the submit area. You’ll get a selection of options to put code into your post.