February 6, 200521 yr The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog Funny thing published by Bangkok Post at 06:13: Single party rule Thai Rak Thai wins power in unprecedented landslide vote zDemocrats fail in Bangkok, but hang on in the South zEconomic reform will have top priority, says Thaksin The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/07Feb2005_news01.php
February 6, 200521 yr The Post used to be fuggin scared of Foxin. Why are they now not? Apart from having all the letters in the alphabet, what does "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog" mean, or imply?
February 7, 200521 yr The Post used to be fuggin scared of Foxin. Why are they now not? Apart from having all the letters in the alphabet, what does "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog" mean, or imply? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thai Rak jumps over the Democrats
February 7, 200521 yr The Post used to be fuggin scared of Foxin. Why are they now not? Apart from having all the letters in the alphabet, what does "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog" mean, or imply? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Exactly right It used to be used in the "old days" to test teletype equipment simply because the sentence contains every letter (at least once) in the English alphabet. Therefore each key on the teletype got tested/printed. If one key was bad, that letter didn't print or cut the paper tape properly. So the repairman knew what key was bad.
February 7, 200521 yr I imagine the headline was pre-prepared expecting a TRT victory and someone forgot to put in the story.
February 7, 200521 yr Sentences containing every letter of the alphabet are called pangrams, or holalphabetic sentences.
February 7, 200521 yr Best journalism I've seen on the Bangkok Post in years! Prodigal lesbians from Venezuela know just exactly how to eat quiche.
February 7, 200521 yr George: Lucky you got that snapshot when you did. I just checked the link and found everything is back to 'normal' - whatever that is in Thailand. Looks like Thaksin is set for the next 4 years. What is not stated so far in this thread is that candidates spent 10 billion baht during this election. That's a lot of money. It will be interesting to follow Thaksin's progress until the next election. Maybe Thai people have short memories or they think the same as in the USA (G W Bush re-elected) and Australia (John Howard re-elected). In both these last two cases, voters said to themselves: 'I don't really like the present leader, but I am scared that the other guy could be worse.' Peter
February 7, 200521 yr The Post used to be fuggin scared of Foxin. Why are they now not? Apart from having all the letters in the alphabet, what does "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog" mean, or imply? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Exactly right It used to be used in the "old days" to test teletype equipment simply because the sentence contains every letter (at least once) in the English alphabet. Therefore each key on the teletype got tested/printed. If one key was bad, that letter didn't print or cut the paper tape properly. So the repairman knew what key was bad. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> well back to good old matrix needle printers :- especially when a 9 pins head lost the middle needle great for reading numbers then
February 7, 200521 yr I would say,by the look of The Bangkok Post today,they have a new printer,everything seems more bolder,just a guess.
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