Article: 164227 of alt.sysadmin.recovery From: pm@zetnet.net (Paul Martin) Approved: yes X-No-Ahbou: yes X-No-Archive: yes Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: And he wanted a job :-) References: <7n3MMClHw-B@khms.westfalen.de> <87wvfs84sf.fsf@loki.wkstn.nix> <7n5Fxi8Hw-B@khms.westfalen.de> <878zs6z9d1.fsf@loki.wkstn.nix> <87u2aorbes.fsf@loki.wkstn.nix> Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Date: 08 Oct 2000 00:31:41 GMT Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: nowster.zetnet.co.uk X-Trace: master.news.zetnet.net 970965101 32378 194.247.42.229 Path: news.meer.net!nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!news2.best.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!diablo.theplanet.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!peer.news.zetnet.net!master.news.zetnet.net!not-for-mail Xref: news.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:164227 In article <87u2aorbes.fsf@loki.wkstn.nix>, Nix wrote: >steve@xcski.com (Steve McAndrewSmith) writes: >> On 03 Oct 2000 08:12:26 +0100, $}xinix{$@esperi.demon.co.uk babbled: >> >GNAT is, as I said, sliding rapidly treewards even now, so you can >> >TANG vf, nf V fnvq, fyvqvat encvqyl gerrjneqf rira abj, fb lbh pna >> ^^^^ >> >> Does anyone else find this just a little, well, *spooky*? >I hadn't noticed that, actually. Nice. :) You mustn't have been too attentive. I posted a scan of /usr/share/dict/words where I found all those words which when rot13'd became other valid words: $ cat /usr/share/dict/words | tr A-Z a-z|sort -u >/tmp/w $ cat /tmp/w | rot13 | cat - /tmp/w | sort | uniq --repeated | column abba be eng gel junes nu purely roof try abe bee envy gnat jung one pyrex she vax ah cheryl erne green jura onyx rail snore vex ant clerk errs greer nag or rat tang wharf balk crag faber ink noon orr rear terra what bar ebbs fur irk nor pent reef terre when tang and gnat were commented upon back then. -- Paul Martin