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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: Alphabet soup
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 03:13:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 22 03:13:30 1985
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> > What is the current record for shortest meaningful sentence that uses all the
> > letters of the alphabet?  
> 
>      Guess you missed all the hoopla last year in the annals of net.puzzle
> about the minimal English pangram:
> 
> 	Jocks vend, fix, quartz BMW glyph.
> 
> which can loosely be interpreted as the destiny of a certain hood ornament
> curio sold at a fraternity garage sale.
> 
>      -- James A. Woods    ames!jaw   or, jaw@riacs

The Guiness Book of World Records gives:

	Cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz.

Which means "the drawings on the walls of the fjord in the rounded valley
annoyed the odd person."
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak

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