[GreenKeys] Re: Fwd: Quick Brown Fox question

Mon, 6 May 2002 18:49:05 -0700

Sam,

Your memory is quite good.  Finishing with DOG makes up the alphabet 
but the addition of a few more characters and figures makes up the 
complete line

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER A LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890 ## TESTING
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER A LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890 ## TESTING
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER A LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890 ## TESTING
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER A LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890 ## TESTING
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER A LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890 ## TESTING
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER A LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890 ## TESTING
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER A LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890 ## TESTING
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER A LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890 ## TESTING
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER A LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890 ## TESTING
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER A LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890 ## TESTING
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER A LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890 ## TESTING

Don

At 8:11 PM +0100 5/6/02, sam.hallas wrote:
>Chuck Swiger wrote:
>>
>>  About 5 years ago a black lady in a Dentist office objected
>>  to "quick brown fox" for testing  printers!! She deleted it and
>>  typed in "This is the day the Lord made" - I didn't bother
>>  trying to explain that that didn't contain every letter in it.
>>
>
>She might have been even more alarmed at
>
>JACKDAWS LOVE MY BIG SPHINX OF QUARTZ
>
>I thought I remembered that the usual test message was
>
>THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK
>
>and that the "'S BACK" was only put in to increase the line length to a
>full line. Hovever, now that I count up that's only 50 characters. I
>thought the teleprinter line length was 69. Is my memory failing?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Sam
>
>BTW I replied to Chuck's message rather than the following one from
>Eldon P. Laffoon, which exemplifies why I preferred the reflector to
>work as it used to, like a newsgroup. A Reply to All would have left  me
>deleting so many unwanted entries it doesn't bear thinking about.
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