MAIL FROM A LURKER

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Thank you for keeping me up to date on the latest password. I am limited to being a lurker. My health has failed me to the point where my mind is active and filled with every emotion that I can have as, I hope, a decent American would, while my body is too weak to sit up and type an original post. (I don't say this for any sympathy, just to explain why I lurk.) Your site is the best! I seldom run across anything original, but the following is something that I've not seen before: If you go to the "Wingdings" font in any of the Microsoft Word programs. Not the later Wingding fonts, but the original "Wingdings". Then go to a large type point size. 24 to 36. You should get an airliner when you type an upper case "Q". If you get the airliner, then go to lower case and type "33". Put in a few spaces for readability, go to upper case, and type "NY". You should have concourse "Q", flight "33", a couple of towers, and the other two symbols should be self-explanatory. I don't know what to think of it. It works in Windows 95, which goes back several years. If it is something different, please use it in any way that will benefit, or at least, amuse (scare the hell out of) all the good people on your board. Thank you again and please keep up the good work,

Whatsisname (Name withheld because OG is paranoid, although not yet schizophrenic)

Haven't had time to try this yet, but hope to later. Y'all be nice to whatsisname, let him know what you get from his instructions.

-- Anonymous, September 23, 2001

Answers

It works. Weird.

thanks, whatsisname.

-- Anonymous, September 23, 2001


Weird.

Type in "PA" and see what you get.

-- Anonymous, September 23, 2001


Spooky... wonder if the ragheads knew this?

Thanks..

-- Anonymous, September 23, 2001


Cool...type in YEMEN.

-- Anonymous, September 24, 2001

Another suspicious offering from Microsoft? Does it ever stop with them? I never could understand the whole idea of using Wingdings when I first ran into them some years back. Except, it occurred to me at the time that they would make good code. If you send a wingding worded message to someone they have to have wingdings to decode it. Wonder if the "terrorists" were using wingdings that way. They did end up wingdinging the towers, right? Or, maybe wingdings is like the crop circles. Messages from ETs when arranged just so. Had to say that.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2001


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