# Testing. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/143170>\
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**Created:** [December 16, 2002, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/143170 "2002-12-16T21:05:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Happyjoelucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Happyjoelucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happyjoelucky)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/143170/1 "2002-12-16T21:05:50Z")

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Come on people, can’t a guy get a little privacy.

::Drawing curtain closed::

[Spicoli]If I’m here, and you’re here, doesn’t that make it our time?[/Spicoli]

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**Author:** ![Happyjoelucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Happyjoelucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happyjoelucky)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/143170/2 "2002-12-16T21:17:05Z")

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How did that smilie get in there?

Oh, much to learn.

Very happy to be a member of the teeming millions. 😃

Aha, I think I just figured out how that smilie got there!

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**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:** [December 17, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/143170/3 "2002-12-17T21:11:28Z")

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And if you don’t want the smiley to be there, you can click the little checkbox that says “Disable Smilies”. If you never want to use smileys, I think there’s an option in your control panel (the button at the top of the page labelled “User CP”) to make that box checked by default. And welcome!

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**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/143170/4 "2002-12-18T05:20:25Z")

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test

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**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/143170/5 "2002-12-18T07:45:11Z")

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Test.

Shit, I failed.

Dang it.

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**Author:** ![Happyjoelucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Happyjoelucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happyjoelucky)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/143170/6 "2002-12-19T18:44:32Z")

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Chronos, thank you for your help and your welcome.

Much appreciated.