Once upon a time, there was a pencil. One day he said,
"Wait – why does it say that I'm saying something? I can't talk."
"No, but you can write," said the pen. "Said doesn't necessarily mean talking out loud."
"It does to me", said the pencil.
"How closed-minded of you", said the pen. "I'd think someone with an eraser would be more open-minded."
"But see", said the pencil. "I'm all one piece. You can have your top screwed off to get your ink changed. There isn't any part of me that can come off, or at least not that can be put back on."
"Both of you are wrong", said the computer. "I did a search on Google, and said is used—"
"I don't care!" said the pencil.
"Can we please get on with the story?" said the typewriter.
"Over my dead body!" replied the white-out.
"Was that a threat?!" said the typewriter.
"WHITE-OUT! NO!!" shouted the pen, but it was too late. The bottle of white-out had spilled into the typewriter, leaving it unusable.
The pen took the paper out of the typewriter and tried to write on it, but it was no use. There was too much white-out, and it was still liquid, so the ink couldn't form into normal letters.
"Now see what you've done?" said the pen, trying to scribble out something the pencil had written. "You've whited out all of the second half of the story."
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"If stylesheets are enabled, this should appear as white on white, therefore not readable."
"Even if they're not enabled, your browser should indicate somehow that the text is deleted."
"For instance, it may put a line through the text."
"Or it may do what Lynx does, and put the word DEL and some punctuation around it"
"If your browser doesn't, then you have a bad web browser."
"...since the del tag, IIRC, has been around since HTML 2 at least"
"...in any case, this text wasn't in the original"
"The original really did just have a blank page here."
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