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So, it's pretty common knowledge that typographers (and the few typesetters that are still around) have a sentence using every letter in the alphabet that they use to test out page layouts and fonts. The one I'd heard was "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and I've even seen it as filler text in some programs. The other day I was looking at a font file and found that the preview line was not the one I was expected - in it's place was a different one: "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz".
I thought this might be an entertaining word game: come up with a clever, short sentence that uses every letter in the alphabet with a minimum of repetition and post it here! |
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"Children need to be taught from preschool that they might have to put a bullet between the eyes of their own undead mother." - Evans City, PA Police Chief Gino Fulci
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They're called pangrams - sentences that use every letter of the alphabet at least once.
Wikipedia has a whole bunch of them on their site.
Some of my favorite ones listed there are:
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. (29 letters),
Sex-charged fop blew my junk TV quiz (29 letters),
How quickly daft jumping zebras vex. (30 letters),
A wizard’s job is to vex chumps quickly in fog. (36 letters), and
Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes. (40 letters)
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They're called pangrams - sentences that use every letter of the alphabet at least once.
Wikipedia has a whole bunch of them on their site. |
You have destroyed my thread with awesomeness. 
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Sorry!
I'm a crossword puzzle geek - anagrams, pangrams, and palindromes are my idea of a good time.
Incidentally, one of the anagrams for my name is "The Anagram Whiner." |
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2008-06-23 13:30:29 |
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Speaking of palindromes... what ever happened to Teh Chet? |
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2008-08-11 17:12:58 |
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We just wanted to deal with that issue... just a couple of point... just changing the attitude towards AIDS from being "Ew... AIDSY." to more like "Ah... Fun monkey disease."
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Dunno. He's on MySpace, though - I got a friend request from him a few weeks ago.
//edit: Holy buckets, I'm an idiot; I just realized that Teh Chet is indeed a palindrome.
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Having a terrible memory is great if you like surprises. |
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