Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxb!mcal From: mcal@ihuxb.UUCP (Mike Clifford) Newsgroups: net.puzzle Subject: Re: Alphabet soup Message-ID: <1056@ihuxb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 09:07:18 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxb.1056 Posted: Thu Jun 6 09:07:18 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Jun-85 02:44:05 EDT References: <5370@ucla-cs.ARPA> <999@ames.UUCP> <424@rtech.UUCP> <7695@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 13 > In article <424@rtech.UUCP> jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) writes: > >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? Does a fiord have walls? I hate that! Mike Clifford