[budster101]

I thought this was funny, just found this site.
If this was seen before, then sorry.

[budster101]

See, I forgot to put JPEG warning on my title... it can happen to anyone.


Anyone try this?

"Open a plain Word document and type in:

=rand (200,99)

Then press Enter

Very weird."

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I don't have Word, so... I was wondering what happens?

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by budster101

Anyone try this?

"Open a plain Word document and type in:

=rand (200,99)

Then press Enter

Very weird."

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I don't have Word, so... I was wondering what happens?

Gives about a billion pages of "the quick brown fox..."

[Cubeoid]

Ah cannit dee it ...

[budster101]

What really got me was:

Addin Masheen / Cullarin Book / Tipe Rita / Porn <<<<<

Ok, all of it got me.

"Windaz 2000 has detected that you are not sober anough to use this here machine...."

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by Doofy

Gives about a billion pages of "the quick brown fox..."

218 pages for me on a PC at school... Extremely odd---it really makes me wonder what that's all about.


Bud, that's an interesting variation on "Winders" that I saw a while back. It's aimed at people in certain more rural parts of states like Arkansas...let your imagination run wild with that.

[Millennium]

Originally Posted by Doofy

Gives about a billion pages of "the quick brown fox..."

Mine currently is at 109 pages, but it keeps growing. My guess is that this is either a bug in AutoCorrect or some kind of hidden load-testing thing. It sounds like something that would be exploitable, though.

[Millennium]

Since I apparently have too much free time on my hands, I've figured out a little more about this issue.

It seems that you can control the output of the rand() function by playing with the two numbers. As far as I can tell, the first number controls how many lines are output, while the second controls how many times "The quick brown fox..." appears on each line. So for example, =rand(2,3) will give you two lines, and on each line "The quick brown fox..." appears three times. The =rand(200,99) which budster mentioned, therefore, outputs 200 lines, and "The quick brown fox..." appears 99 times on each line. 200 and 99 are the highest numbers which seem to work with this; if you try going any higher it doesn't do the substitution.

There are, of course, some differences which people are seeing in the number of pages this yields. I think this probably has more to do with different font sizes than anything else.

By the way, Bud, where did you find out about this?

[philm]

I wonder how many people here actually get the original joke...?

Old, but still funny.

Phil (ex-Whitley Bay)

[nforcer]

I thought this was going to be something about a windows version for "Geordies". Guess I was wrong.

[budster101]

I was just browsing the internet and came across this site, and then that page, and then, well you get it...

[techweenie1]

Budster where are you from? You seem quite knowledgeable in accents...as for me I do my natural mild-non-southside-western-surburia-hinsdalian "Chicago" accent quite well.

[budster101]

I'm in Lisle.

[techweenie1]

Ah good old Lizzle cool man.

[philm]

Originally Posted by nforcer

I thought this was going to be something about a windows version for "Geordies". Guess I was wrong.

Err, no, I think you were precisely correct.