Chat with Craig

CRAIG, LISA, BOLD, ITALICS
a modern day technological poem.



Lisa: i'm going "invisible" but you should still be able to type to me.

invisible! ha ha.

hello!

2:23 PM weird. it made invisible bold

i dont know why

invisible!

huh.

it didn't that time

Craig: haha

8 minutes

2:32 PM Lisa: this should be bold

this italic

huh.

2:33 PM Craig: was it?

Lisa: for me it was. i don't know if it showed up that way for you if you are on your phone and not a computer

2:34 PM for you it might have shown up with stars around the word or an _

52 minutes

3:26 PM Craig: nothing fancy here, just whatever you type

3:27 PM yes I'm on my phone

3:31 PM Lisa: well too bad then... you may miss my subtle innuendos written in italics!

3:32 PM brb

Craig: bold

italics

?

3:34 PM Lisa: yes that worked

annoying.

that you can do that

haha

yet can't see it

Craig: annoying?

3:35 PM well I know what it means

3:36 PM Lisa: oh

haha

Craig: so I can figure it out

Lisa: so you see the stars

good

lol.

3:37 PM Craig: did the bold and italic work at the same time?

Lisa: yes

it did

the "i can" is not bold

but the figure it out is bold and italic

i can is italic

but not bold

3:38 PM Craig: so it's backward?

italic

bold

Lisa: that is correct

3:39 PM Craig: that's not right

Lisa: ?

italic

bold

Craig: underscores have been used for centuries to signify underlines for printing presses

3:40 PM Lisa: yes. and since the advent of the computer, underscores mean italic

an underlined word

should be italicized instead

i know. i took typography

italic is the new underline

get it?

3:41 PM Craig: lame

3:42 PM why so confusing

computers have earned the name a friend of a friend calls them: confuser

4:01 PM Craig: good

does that work?

4:02 PM Craig: wh*a*t

4:03 PM _

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