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From: nxn@ihuxm.UUCP (Dave Nixon)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: Alphabet soup
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 13:12:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 13:12:31 1985
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> >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."
> 
> It certainly does the job of having all the letters in the sentence, but it's
> definitely not meaningful.  How can you have a fjord ("a narrow inlet of the
> sea between cliffs or steep slopes") in a rounded valley?

If there were a major earthquake in the Himalayas, resulting in Mt. Everest
moving down to sea level, the western cwm might become an inlet of the sea.
I think the south west face of Everest and the Lhotse face qualify as
"cliffs or steep slopes." Can the width of the western cwm (about a mile)
be considered narrow? Maybe our hypothetical earthquake should fix this too.

Slartibartfast would have approved.