I put the word phone in a post and a cartoon phone became part of the post (it'll probably do it here). How do I get that to stop? It never happened before.

Well it didn't do it here. Go figure.

If you put a colon immediately after the word phone it triggers the smiley.

phone:

https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/misc.php?do=getsmilies&editorid=vB_Editor_001

Thanks for that, and the reference. I had looked thru the FAQs to no avail.

It was in a Quotes thread, and that was the problem.