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[GWL]: easy to misread

Before people get too cross and irritated with each other regarding readj g mistakes such as the one that engendered the following exchange, scroll down and try the following exercise.  You'll be amazed and - I hope - amused.  Catriona Tudor Erler
B*@aol.com wrote:
0.1600021644.719819483-1463792638-1012012531@topica.com"> In a message dated 01/25/2002 4:25:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, m*@pa.adelphia.net writes:


I did go back, Brook, here's what I saw, hence my comment about the Japanese gardens of rocks etc.:

 <<A garden seed needs moisture, nutrients, and sunshine to germinate and grow.

Anything gray about that? That's about as black and white a statement as I can think of. And, come to think of it, universally applicable, too.


So, which part of it are you having trouble understanding. I said: a garden seed. Nothing in there about gardens, or rocks. Just seeds, and what they need to flourish.


Brook
******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?
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >    How many ? 3?
| >    Wrong, there are 6 !!--no joke.
| >    Read it again.
| >    The reasoning behind is 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. 
		
I am the common, garden variety type fool because I counted only three.  So did my bright, physicist husband.  Catriona

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