Waltz, bad nymph!
I'm looking through fonts at Veer this morning, and it's impossible for me to look at them without saying "jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz" over and over in my head because I can't just see words, I have to actually read them, and so my font-searching is becoming this incessant chant of "jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz" and I begin imagining a big sphinx of quartz, and asking myself what a jackdaw is, and trying NOT to interpret this sentence in some kind of 12-year-old dirty-mind sort of way.
And I understand that "jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz" is a pangram that's shorter than the more traditional "the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog", and more unexpected, but still, it isn't the shortest pangram out there. They could have used, "how quickly daft jumping zebras vex" or "two driven jocks help fax my big quiz", which are both one letter shorter.
Personally, I'd go with, "waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex"!
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Comments
A jackdaw is a type of blackbird.
I have no idea why I know that.
Posted by: Jane | 9:55AM, 08.24.07
I bet you're really good at Trivial Pursuit.
Posted by: andrea | 11:20AM, 08.24.07
I am afraid I used to be. Haven't played in years though.
Posted by: Jane | 11:26AM, 08.24.07
Hi.
I'm 12.
And it's a small source of amusement that that particular pangram actually became the one used in Windows.
Also, I almost made my own Lorem Ipsum text using combinations of several pangrams.
Posted by: Wil | 3:01PM, 08.24.07
I thought you were 8....
Posted by: jane | 3:27PM, 08.24.07