Scare your friends!

H. Curtiss Leung hncl at panix.com
Sun Oct 21 10:54:30 PDT 2001


If you have Micro$oft Word in your office (and you probably do), you can whip up a nice little frenzy by showing the following to a credulous coworker:

1. Create a new document; 2. Type in the string "Q33 NY", while ominously claiming that it was the tail number of one of the jets that crashed into the World Trade Center; 3. Select the text you've just typed, change the font to Wingdings, and then set the font size to 26 or above; 4. Bask in their fear.

Unfortunately, this is just a hoax: the real tail numbers were AA 77 (the plane that hit the Pentagon) AA 11 (WTC North Tower) UA 175 (WTC South Tower) UA 93 (the plane that crashed in PA) none of which yield anything interesting under this method.

-- Curtiss

PS. A friend of mine pointed out that the specious tail sequence Q33 NY USA might be better suited to the more apocalyptically minded in your workplace.



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