# This is only a test.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [March 1, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444 "2000-03-01T21:44:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/1 "2000-03-01T21:44:00Z")
As I just said, it’s just a test.
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/2 "2000-03-01T21:45:00Z")
Test reply only.
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### Author:  [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2000, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/3 "2000-03-02T02:51:00Z")
new sig
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“If I pinch my nose with my fingers, close my mouth tight,
and blow real hard, I can make my ears bleed. It’s
not as cool as Superman’s X-ray vision, but it’s my own
special talent.”
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### Author:  [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2000, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/4 "2000-03-02T05:55:00Z")
test
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But where were the Spiders?
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### Author:  [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/5 "2000-03-02T15:40:00Z")
yet another sig test
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SDMB’s oldest living female!
Acclaimed author of: _No Bad Brontosauri
365 Ways to Cook Sabertooth Tiger
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Wheel_
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### Author:  [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2000, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/6 "2000-03-02T15:42:00Z")
and one more
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**SDMB’s oldest living female!**
Acclaimed author of: _No Bad Brontosauri
365 Ways to Cook Sabertooth Tiger
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Wheel_
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/7 "2000-03-04T20:51:00Z")
Question: Did Louis Pasteur test test tubes? 😛😛😛
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“If you drive an automobile, please drive carefully–because I walk in my sleep.”–Victor Borge
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2000, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/8 "2000-03-04T22:18:00Z")
This is a test. This is only a test. If this were a real disaster, TUBADIVA would let us know what to do. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Sonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonya)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2000, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/9 "2000-03-06T05:57:00Z")
testing
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### Author:  [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2000, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/10 "2000-04-19T05:10:00Z")
Just for something different…
…a test!!!
:? :o :+ := :- :] :} :\ :
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### Author:  [@CrueltyToFoliage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrueltyToFoliage)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2000, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/11 "2000-04-19T06:05:00Z")
Quiz! Oh, wait. Darn it. I ruined the chain.
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“Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.”
–Terry Pratchett
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2000, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/12 "2000-04-19T13:54:00Z")
Testing:
[www.contortionhomepage.com](http://www.contortionhomepage.com)
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### Author:  [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/13 "2000-04-19T15:18:00Z")
I s’pose it’s a test.
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Cecil said it. I believe it. That settles it.
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Relax, I’m not as Dave as I look!- A Wallified sig!
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### Author:  [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2000, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/14 "2000-04-21T03:12:00Z")
I can’t stand to be left out… testing!
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Always remember that you are unique, just like everybody else. MIPSIMS : where we put the fun back in dysfunctional.
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### Author:  [@Beakeroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beakeroni)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2000, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/15 "2000-04-21T06:33:00Z")
Let’s examine this.
Open wide.
Wider! Ahh…
Thank you for your patients.
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### Author:  [@Dumb\_Ox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumb_Ox)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/16 "2000-04-21T21:45:00Z")
Testing.
**More testing.**
_Still more testing._
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### Author:  [@Dumb\_Ox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumb_Ox)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/17 "2000-04-21T21:50:00Z")
OK.
> [@](#):
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> How about this?
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### Author:  [@Dumb\_Ox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumb_Ox)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/18 "2000-04-21T21:54:00Z")
Or [this](http://www.straightdope.com)?
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### Author:  [@junebeetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/junebeetle)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/19 "2000-04-22T00:14:00Z")
_This_ is a **test**. 🆒
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### Author:  [@junebeetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/junebeetle)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2000, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-only-a-test/1444/20 "2000-04-22T00:19:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> This is a test.
This is another test.
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