# Those darned italics

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-darned-italics/356228>\
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**Created:** [May 10, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-darned-italics/356228 "2006-05-10T15:23:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-darned-italics/356228/1 "2006-05-10T15:23:50Z")

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Looks like the italics are stuck in the oil profits thread, beginning with [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7375250#post7375250). All the posts after that are all italic. I tried putting in a \* tag, but apparently that’s not how it works.

Can somebody fix that?

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-darned-italics/356228/2 "2006-05-10T17:09:23Z")

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It looks normal to me. Specific quotes are italicized, general ones are not, that’s pretty standard.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-darned-italics/356228/3 "2006-05-10T17:17:19Z")

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It’s fixed already. Thanks, fluiddruid.