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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Saintaw on April 26, 2005, 08:58:38 AM
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Open Microsoft Word and type “NYC” in capital letters. Select the text and change the font to webdings. Hey, pretty cool little Easter egg, huh?
But wait, there’s more– select the text again, but this time change the font to wingdings.
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uhh..... what does the second message look like it says to you?
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I cant figure it out, too confusing to me.
OHHHH nevermind I just understood what it said
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Looks like death to Jews.
(http://www.nlcs.k12.in.us/dewey/whatthef.jpg)
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Looks like Kill Jews, then something I can't make out.
I assume the skull & cross-bones are "Kill" and the next symbol is the Star of David, meaning Jews".
Can't make out the last one.
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the last one is a "thumbs up" picture
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Originally posted by Mighty1
Looks like death to Jews.
(http://www.nlcs.k12.in.us/dewey/whatthef.jpg)
Oh ok.... I thought it was something terrible like killing the stars in the sky. False alarm.
;)
btw.. for all you tightasses.... just kidding
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WTF is that about...... I didn't realize the Office package was outsourced to pakistan but now it would seem so... This may have a negative impact on Microsoft sales if it hits the MSM
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That's ages old story; IIRC chancing to webdings should show a message of aircrafts crashing NY or something like that.
Anyways personally I like more about the temple of doom and flying over a spooky grounds.
Use Google for "easter eggs office"
Here's few:
http://www.siliconguide.com/tips/win95/office/office.shtml
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Welcome to the internet. We've been waiting for you.
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Hey, shuddup you nerdknowitalls... I'm waiting for a fit from our local rednecks!
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Oh... and Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/rumors/wingding.htm) is on it. ;)
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You use word ???
Vade retro satanas !
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Here is Microsoft's official statement on the issue:
We can certainly understand how people would respond with some shock to this apparent issue. We did too when it first came up nine years ago and we investigated it thoroughly in partnership with the Anti-Defamation League. The conclusion was that the sequence in the Wingdings character set is coincidental and that there was no malicious intent. In fact, it impacted several software companies at the time and continues to do so. Unfortunately, there was not an easy way to fix the problem. We understand that this requires explanation.
At the simplest level, wingdings and webdings are much like an alphabet of characters and provide thousands of potential combinations from which a person could choose. Changing the character set would create an impact of unknown scale on existing data and code using the affected font. Again, using the example of the alphabet, what would happen to existing documents and applications if we switched around a handful of letters? The likely result is that we would create significant issues for people, cause some unintended humorous moments and several offensive ones. For that reason Wingdings has been left unaltered since its inception.