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05-13-2002, 09:14 AM
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Count the "F's" in the following text:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
Managed it ? Scroll down only after you have counted them, okay? .
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How many ? 3 ?
Wrong, there are 6 !!--no joke.
Read it again. The reasoning behind is further down.
The brain cannot process "OF".
Incredible or what ?
Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a
genius. Three is normal, four is quite rare. Send this
got this sent in an email, it got me
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05-13-2002, 09:23 AM
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Yup I counted 6 the first time. seen tricks like this before and know to look at EACH word!!! LOL. |
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05-13-2002, 09:32 AM
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Re: Count the "F's" in the following text:
Quote: Originally posted by VERT Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a
genius. | OMG I'm a genius! I'm going to print this out to show my boss...I want a pay raise! Hmm...I'm military, this won't work. Oh well. |
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05-13-2002, 09:34 AM
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05-13-2002, 09:38 AM
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Ok I admit I only "saw" 3 the first time but I caught the "of" others the 2nd time thru BEFORE reading the answer
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05-13-2002, 10:28 AM
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freaky...
i got 3
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One of my users has been computing for 33 years...... older than i've been alive..... soooooo of course I know NOTHING about the tech that I helped create.
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05-13-2002, 11:20 AM
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I got all 6 but ive seen stuff like that before.
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05-13-2002, 11:26 AM
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i got six the first go too, but i had seen similar things before...
drew
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05-13-2002, 11:28 AM
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I also got that sent to me in an email, got me hook, line and sinker (3) |
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