# Welcome the Dorkside! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 30, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-dorkside/198590 "2003-08-30T07:11:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Dorkside](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@The\_Dorkside](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dorkside)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-dorkside/198590/1 "2003-08-30T07:11:17Z")
I am the newest member, so please ignore my next few practice posts… I got to start somewhere… And now for some similies:🙂 🙂 😃 🆒 😉 and a wally :wally ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-dorkside/198590/2 "2003-08-30T07:53:28Z")
Please feel free to practice post here. People who’ve been here for years and have 4000+ posts still practice silly pointless things to their heart’s content. Welcome. in particular practice the bold and italic vbscript, you’ll probably be using them a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-dorkside/198590/3 "2003-08-30T08:00:56Z")
Yeah, we do need to practice. [sup][symbol][sub]_ **Look at us go** _[/sub][/sup][/symbol] I think I used every text modification possible, except size and color on that. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-dorkside/198590/4 "2003-08-30T08:08:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mudshark \* > \*\*Yeah, we do need to practice. > > [sup][symbol][sub]_ **Look at us go** _[/sub][/sup][/symbol] > I think I used every text modification possible, except size and color on that. \*\* [sup][symbol][sub]_ **Look at us go** _[/sub][/sup][/symbol] ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-dorkside/198590/5 "2003-08-31T06:02:12Z")
[ul] [li][sup]mattress[/sup][/li][li]batrice[/li][li]tritace[/li][li][sub]flikix[/sub][/li][li]butkus[/li][li] **bratece** [/li][li]_pratcses_[/li][li]pretress[/li][li]praktas[/li][li]practice[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-dorkside/198590/6 "2003-08-31T10:55:55Z")
Hello Hello Again Green red pink blue brown orange red white ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-dorkside/198590/7 "2003-08-31T10:57:38Z")
Wow, it’s a whole freaking rainbow. I forgot about the list. [ul] [li]Apple[/li][li]Orange[/li][li]Pear[/li][li]Banana[/li][li]Lemon[/li][li]Plum[/li]Lime[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-dorkside/198590/8 "2003-09-02T03:57:51Z")
I am confused as to how s/he knows the putz smiley is attributed to wally, being a new memeber, although I suppose s/he could be a lurker. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-dorkside/198590/9 "2003-09-02T04:27:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shadez \* > \*\*I am confused as to how s/he knows the putz smiley is attributed to wally, being a new memeber, although I suppose s/he could be a lurker. 😛 \*\* It’s because the putz shows wally for the scroll-over text, and the code you’d type it would be wally with a :. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-the-dorkside/198590/10 "2003-09-02T10:06:43Z")
;j I can never remember how to make that.