# tuphelm grdlpumph **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 5, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597 "2001-06-05T00:00:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/1 "2001-06-05T00:00:36Z")
[biu] tuphelm grdlpumph [/b/i/u] [b[i tuphelm grdlpumph \*\*/i]/u] ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/2 "2001-06-05T00:21:45Z")
And a hearty “asdfsad kjfdslk” back at you, my good fellow. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/3 "2001-06-05T10:51:05Z")
SSADSAFSGER! SEREWREDS! Angrily make love to the tuna-fish! Swedish maniacs will perform base-twenty arithmetic on your genetalia! Nonstandard sockets shall haunt you to the end of your days! Perpetually forget to SDERWERES! REGSFASDASS! ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/4 "2001-06-05T13:28:35Z")
I’ve always loved tuphelm. ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/5 "2001-06-05T13:35:29Z")
Each tag has to be enclosed in its own brackets {b}{u}{i}frugnutz bimwhackle{/i}{/u}{/b}. I don’t know if the close tag order must be reverse of the open tag order. It doesn’t have to be in HTML, but does in XHTML. Lets check: reverse order (this is the baseline) _ **blospork jismsplat** _ Now, same order (this is the test) _ **fartenstinken poopenrotten** _ Now, let’s see how this renders with a “preview”. The order of close tags does not matter. (of course, not all possible order combinations were tested.) [sub]No tags were harmed in the testing of this code.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/6 "2001-06-05T14:25:32Z")
Yeah, vBulletin simply substitutes html tags in place of vb tags. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/7 "2001-06-05T15:13:28Z")
Gee, sure hope he’s not sitting at his keyboard having a stroke or anything, turning to his colleagues at the Straight Dope for help… “What’s that, Lassie? Timmy’s fallen down the well and needs insulin?” ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/8 "2001-06-05T15:18:14Z")
And a hearty **tuba player** to you, too. Sheesh. You kids today don’t recognize the classics anymore. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/9 "2001-06-05T15:23:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dogsbody \* > \*\*And a hearty **tuba player** to you, too. > > Sheesh. You kids today don’t recognize the classics anymore. \*\* Man! I was just going to say that! Kids, can you all say “Public Servant?” jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/10 "2001-06-05T15:24:10Z")
“bozo” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/11 "2001-06-05T15:32:45Z")
Oh, and while we’re at it: **Pear Pimples for _Hairy Fishnuts_**. And how does one get the superscript TM to appear in vB code? ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/12 "2001-06-05T15:37:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dogsbody \* > > **Pear Pimples for _Hairy Fishnuts_**. A boy and his penguin! A penguin and his boy! Two dips and a dad! ok. i’m done ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/13 "2001-06-05T15:51:15Z")
Dogsbody, do you mean as in **Rapa[sup]TM[/sup] Scrapple**? Easy! Hit the quote (as in “reply with quote”) button at the bottom of my post and the magic code will be revealed. If, instead you mean the TM in a circle character, you need to use the HTMS character code for it. I don’t recall what the code is and my HTML book is at home. ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/14 "2001-06-05T16:03:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spritle \* > \*\*Dogsbody, do you mean as in **Rapa[sup]TM[/sup] Scrapple**? Easy! Hit the quote (as in “reply with quote”) button at the bottom of my post and the magic code will be revealed. > > If, instead you mean the TM in a circle character, you need to use the HTMS character code for it. I don’t recall what the code is and my HTML book is at home. \*\* AHA! THe Miracle[sup]TM[/sup] is revealed at last. BwaHaHa. 😉 “Well, I for one am just full-bore gonzo confused.” jarbaby, you’re so cool. So’s Spritle ---
**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:** [June 5, 2001, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuphelm-grdlpumph/67597/15 "2001-06-05T17:45:33Z")
Oh, you mean like ™ this (as opposed to [sup]TM[/sup] this? If that’s what you want, it’s easier to just use charmap (or the Macintosh equivalent) to search up the character. If you try to do it using the HTML sequence, then you end up having to preview to make it work: Each preview contracts the character codes once.