I tracked down the origin of the text, turns out that at least part of it is
from Cicero.

http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/lorem_ipsum.html

BTW, there's something sad about this picture... Sort of reminds me of a book I
once read called House of Endless Stairs.

ADB

Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:

> B. Gimeno wrote:
> >>>>THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG
> >>
> >>Btw.: Did anyone understand what I guessed ?
> >>
> >
> > Is a short english translation from : Lore ipsum dolor sit amet,
> > consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut
> > laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat voluptat.
>
> Aaah - "Pseudo Latin". No I don't understand that language... =)
>
> > ...or is pangram, a standard from typesetting were you get all the letters
> > of the alphabet?
>
> Yes it is a pangram.
>
> Your text used almost all the letters in the english alphabet,
> so I thought that _maybe_ the subject was referring to this.
>
> (I used this pangram a lot while repairing old teletype machines.
> We made punched paper tapes with the hole patterns for this
> pangram so that we could check all the letter-"hammers"(?) in
> the machines.)
>
>  > B. Gimeno
>  >

>  > garrafa
>  > (Is strange to dip cheese in the beer o taste carafe's whisky)
>
> That would indeed be a strange thing to do !
>
> --
> Tor Olav
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