Re: This is too weird

2001-09-26 Thread Nenad Djurdjevic
Mike wrote: > Yes it was a hoax, and I'm sorry for posting it here. I wasn't aware of the > history of Wingding and Webding "messages." It includes a charge against > Microsoft that the Wingdings for "NYC" are thought to be an anti-semitic > message. Which is indeed a coincidence, and does seem s

Re: This is too weird

2001-09-26 Thread Mike Johnston
Nenad wrote: > This is a hoax not a 'bizarre coincidence'. >> The first plane to hit the WTC was Flight Q33NY >> >> 1. Open up WORD, as if beginning a new document... [etc.] Yes it was a hoax, and I'm sorry for posting it here. I wasn't aware of the history of Wingding and Webding "messages

Re: This is too weird

2001-09-25 Thread Nenad Djurdjevic
This is a hoax not a 'bizarre coincidence'. - Original Message - From: Mike Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:08 PM Subject: This is too weird > I don't usually go for stuff like this, but this is really a bizarre > coincidence.

Re: Nostradamus (was: Re: This is too weird)

2001-09-25 Thread Martin Corro
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 6:53 PM Subject: Re: This is too weird > My favorite of the recent urban legends is the "Nostradamus" prophecy that > was actually written by a Canadian student in the early 1990s. (It's also

OT: Nostradamus (was: Re: This is too weird)

2001-09-25 Thread Gianfranco Irlanda
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 6:53 PM Subject: Re: This is too weird > My favorite of the recent urban legends is the "Nostradamus" prophecy that > was actually written by a Canadian student in the early 1990s. (It's also > on snopes.com) > >

Re: This is too weird

2001-09-25 Thread Mark Roberts
My favorite of the recent urban legends is the "Nostradamus" prophecy that was actually written by a Canadian student in the early 1990s. (It's also on snopes.com) "There are two schools of thought on Nostradamus: either (1) he had supernatural powers which enabled him to prophesy the future with

Re: This is too weird

2001-09-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check out http://www.snopes.com/ (particularly http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/wingding.htm where, at the bottom, it says, "The last "coincidence" is strictly a manufactured one. Although typing the characters "Q33NY" using the Wingdings font does produce the string of im

RE: This is too weird

2001-09-25 Thread Skofteland, Christian
see http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/wingding.htm Christian Skofteland System Administrator ServerVault Inc. > -Original Message- > From: Norman Baugher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Th

Re: This is too weird

2001-09-25 Thread Ralf Stubner
Mike Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The first plane to hit the WTC was Flight Q33NY [...] This is: 1) Meanwhile rather old. 2) Wrong, search for 'Q33NY' and 'hoax' with your prefered search engine or see http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blwingdings.htm>. cheerio ralf -- Ralf

Re: This is too weird

2001-09-25 Thread Norman Baugher
I think you've been had Mike. The first flight was American Airlines flight 11? Norm Mike Johnston wrote: > I don't usually go for stuff like this, but this is really a bizarre > coincidence. > > --Mike > > The first plane to hit the WTC was Flight Q33NY > > 1. Open up WORD, as if beginning a n