Article: 99224 of alt.fan.cecil-adams
From: deepstblu <deepstblu@sprynet.com>
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Subject: Re: (yet another) List of incredibles!
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Jim Shaffer, Jr. wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 02:55:29 GMT, pciszek@otherworld.std.com (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
> 
> >>35. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps
> >>over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the
> >>English language.
> >
> >This is trivially easy to verify.  Now, can you come up with a shorter one?
> 
> "Quartz glyph job vex'd qwm finks", according to Guinness.  I've seen an even
> more archaic, contrived, and nonsensical one involving a crwd, a qoph, and a
> zimb, possibly on this newsgroup.
"Junky qoph-flags vext crwd zimb." Cece trotted that out at one point.
A cousin of the first one is "Cwm fjord-glyphs vext quiz."
Before people started pushing the limits, the old Guinness listing was
"Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz." (Those jackdaws!)

Rick B.