This was years ago, but I remember I was unable to test one of our vendor API calls locally because it had to hit something like api.association-of-commercial-something-or-others.com... turns out the corporate filter didn't like the word "ass".

>(edit: why does double * get escaped away on here.)

* text * italicizes, like so: text.

(Putting spaces around the * avoids this behaviour).

Markdown parser turning your emphasis into <strong>