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What's that poem?

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What is that poem that web developers always use in place of paragraphs of text? It's in some other language that I don't know of, but I'm at least one of you know what I'm talking about. :?
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Lorem Ipsum is a poem? Cool. :)

I thought it was just random gibberish much like "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"
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Sweet. Thanks for the links guys, I appreciate it.
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There's a nifty little Firefox add-on for generating it as well.
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Hockey wrote:Lorem Ipsum is a poem? Cool. :)

I thought it was just random gibberish much like "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"
Apparently it has roots in a piece of latin literature from like 45 BC (according to http://lipsum.com/)
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Hockey wrote:I thought it was just random gibberish much like "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"
That isn't gibberish either. I believe it contains every letter of the alphabet or something similar.
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astions wrote:
Hockey wrote:I thought it was just random gibberish much like "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"
That isn't gibberish either. I believe it contains every letter of the alphabet or something similar.
Mostly correct: it contains every letter if you change it to "dogs", else there's no 's'.
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ReverendDexter wrote:
astions wrote:
Hockey wrote:I thought it was just random gibberish much like "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"
That isn't gibberish either. I believe it contains every letter of the alphabet or something similar.
Mostly correct: it contains every letter if you change it to "dogs", else there's no 's'.
I always remembered it being 'jumps' not 'dogs'...
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JellyFish, you are correct.
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:Apparently it has roots in a piece of latin literature from like 45 BC (according to http://lipsum.com/)
I, too, always thought it was faux Latin gibberish. Thaks for the reference, Ninja! :)
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Carpe Diem! :P

Dead poets society anyone?
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