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
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
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.
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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
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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)
>
>
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
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
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
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
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
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