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What's that poem?

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:54 pm
by JellyFish
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. :?

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:08 pm
by John Cartwright

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:21 pm
by RobertGonzalez

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:49 pm
by alex.barylski
Lorem Ipsum is a poem? Cool. :)

I thought it was just random gibberish much like "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:49 pm
by JellyFish
Sweet. Thanks for the links guys, I appreciate it.

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:16 pm
by superdezign
There's a nifty little Firefox add-on for generating it as well.

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:46 pm
by Luke
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/)

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:49 pm
by Benjamin
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.

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:21 pm
by ReverendDexter
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'.

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:49 pm
by JellyFish
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'...

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:52 pm
by Benjamin
JellyFish, you are correct.

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:25 pm
by califdon
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! :)

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:40 pm
by alex.barylski
Carpe Diem! :P

Dead poets society anyone?