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Article #20045Re: quick game
From: Nick Machen
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 00:00
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 00:00
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I found twelve - does 23 pints of stella actually changes this Midnight Cowboy <Paul.Greven@village.uunet.be> wrote in message news:7lof7t$eac$1@nickel.uunet.be... > A quick test of intelligence. Don't cheat! Because if you did, the test > would be no fun. I promise, there are no tricks to the test. > > Read this sentence: > > FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE- > SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF- > IC STUDY COMBINED WITH > THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. > > Now count the F's in that sentence. Count them ONLY ONCE: do not go back and > > count them again. > See below... > > Answer below: > > ANSWER: > > There are six F's in the sentence. > A person of average intelligence finds three of them. > If you spotted four, you're above average. > If you got five, you can turn your nose at most anybody. > If you caught six, you are a genius. > There is no catch. Many people forget the "OF"s. The human brain tends to > see them as V's and not F's. Pretty weird, huh? > > The Midnight Cowboy > > > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1037ec,7e1d5ae29d5a1c5f X-Google-Attributes: gid1037ec,public From: "Nick Machen" <nick@nmachen.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: quick game Date: 1999/07/04 Message-ID: <7lokgc$73p$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 497159404 References: <7lof7t$eac$1@nickel.uunet.be> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net X-Trace: news5.svr.pol.co.uk 931124556 7289 62.136.93.117 (4 Jul 1999 21:42:36 GMT) Organization: Customer of Planet Online X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Jul 1999 21:42:36 GMT Newsgroups: be.jokes