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  1. Forza1

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    This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!




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  2. zach_300zxTT

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    It's not indented.
     
  3. darth550

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    I know, I know! When translated into Sanskrit...it is the results from last Saturday's horse races at Pimlico.

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  4. tx246

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    this paragraph doesn't have a letter "e" in it.
     
  5. fivebob

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    It does not contain the letter "e" the most commonly used letter in the English Language :D
     
  6. wax

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    Well, yours does, as does mine. So, that paragraph doesn't have a letter "e." *snicker*
     
  7. tx246

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    now the true question is whether he took the time to complete that or if it was found for him. if he created it, he has too much time on his hands.

    wait till we get into palandromes and oxymorons.
     
  8. Forza1

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    Damn, that didn't take you guys too long to solve! You're right, but for different reasons. I didn't create it, but I was wasting time when I stumbled upon it, so...



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  9. UroTrash

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    How about this:

    You know on a typewriter there are 3 rows of letters (top row starts with "Q", second with "A" etc)???

    What is the longest word in the English language that can be spelled using only ONE of the rows (top, middle or bottom row) on a typewriter keyboard?
     
  10. Forza1

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    It's called a "QWERTY" keyboard.

    I believe the longest word is "typewriter" as you hinted to ;)



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  11. UroTrash

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    Well done!! :)
     
  12. DrStranglove

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    Oh I can kick that's butt in half!!!

    (ahum)


    """"Up to about its primary school days a child thinks, naturally, only of play. But many a form of play contains disciplinary factors. “You can’t do this,” or “that puts you out,” shows a child that it must think, practically or fail. Now, if, throughout childhood, a brain has no opposition, it is plain that it will attain a position of “status quo,” as with our ordinary animals. Man knows not why a cow, dog or lion was not born with a brain on a par with ours; why such animals cannot add, subtract, or obtain from books and schooling, that paramount position which Man holds today.


    But a human brain is not in that class. Constantly throbbing and pulsating, it rapidly forms opinions; attaining an ability of its own; a fact which is startlingly shown by an occasional child “prodigy” in music or school work. And as, with our dumb animals, a child’s inability convincingly to impart its thoughts to us, should not class it as ignorant.


    Upon this basis I am going to show you how a bunch of bright young folks did find a champion; a man with boys and girls of his own; a man of so dominating and happy individuality that Youth is drawn to him as is a fly to a sugar bowl. It is a story about a small town. It is not a gossipy yarn; nor is it a dry, monotonous account, full of such customary “fill-ins” as “romantic moonlight casting murky shadows down a long, winding country road.” Nor will it say anything about tinklings lulling distant folds; robins carolling at twilight, nor any “warm glow of lamplight” from a cabin window. No. It is an account of up-and-doing activity; a vivid portrayal of Youth as it is today; and a practical discarding of that worn-out notion that “a child don’t know anything.”


    Now, any author, from history’s dawn, always had that most important aid to writing: an ability to call upon any word in his dictionary in building up his story. That is, our strict laws as to word construction did not block his path. But in my story that mighty obstruction will constantly stand in my path; for many an important, common word I cannot adopt, owing to its orthography.""""



    Tak{e} that...


    Dr"E"
     
  13. ralessi

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    Ok, how about the longest word that can be made with only one hand (left hand).
     
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    Like in the very first post?

    Actually I was amazed no one mentioned him till now. I got that, the opening paragraphs here;


    http://www.spinelessbooks.com/gadsby/01.html


    I dont think it is in print any more but you can read the first chapter and see how amazing a feet it is. Rumor has it he tied down the "e" key on his Underwood while writing it.

    DrS
     
  16. PSk

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    Pete's confused ... does that mean a person that looses their right hand from then on has to communicate in short words?
     
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    masturbation
     
  18. 62 250 GTO

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    These "jokes" are years and years old.
    As soon as I read the first 5 works I remembered.

    Come on lads, somthing new.
     
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  20. UroTrash

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  21. DrStranglove

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    Yep that is REALLLLLLY long for me. But I am right handed so I guess I dont win. And often, it takes two or three hands for me anyway.


    :(
     
  22. coolestkidever

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    ROTFLMAO!!!!!
     
  23. Bryan

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    He meant 'stewardesses' ... longest word typed with a left hand. Goes along with "lollipop" longest right hand word...think about it.

    Try this page

    http://www.businessballs.com/games.htm
     

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