Re: Wordplay

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:05:04PM -0800, Joseph Fatula wrote:
> > The original said:
> > Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
> >               ^
> >               |
> >               T
>
> No, I believe you.  I just made a stupid mistake, that's all.  But it is
> interesting that in Times New Roman (which is what my e-mails come in as),
> the T and arrow is pointing to the "b" of "box".  And that is not a "t".
That's 'cos emails ought to be read using a fixed-width font (or at least,
emails that does ASCII-formatting. But of course, a lot of
HTML-crippled^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huh, I mean, fixed-width-font-challenged, email
programs just blindly render it in a variable-width font anyway. :-)


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