From talk.bizarre Sat Sep 23 08:21:35 1995 From: Kelly J. Cooper Date: 23 Sep 1995 09:28:32 GMT Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Subject: Re: A B Seizure In article <43mtso$it3@lhc.nlm.nih.gov>, Larry Doering wrote: >In article , >Art Delano wrote: >>In article <437e31$31b@bmdhh222.bnr.ca>, bcash AT bnr DOTTY ca (Brian J.Cash) >>wrote: >>] Of the rest, I would say J is, at the least, the most >>] under-rated letter of the alphabet. >> >>i almost have no comment. >> >>AjD > >Not for long, though. Soon, yes, SOON the letter J will rise from the >ashes of relative obscurity. Soon the letter J will take its RIGHTFUL >PLACE at the head of the alphabet, leading the revolutionary masses >to proletarian victory! Soldiers and workers, unite against the >tyranny of alphabetical order! Soon the evil Gang of Four and their >counterrevolutionary running dogs who for so long have kept the letter >J in bondage between I and K will be crushed like the fascist insects >they are! All hail the letter J! You do realize of course that J was one of the least common letters in the alphabet. Really. There are people who calculate these kinds of things. (I suspect they work with those WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE! people who figure out which letters are the _most_ popular so that the hosts may provide the players with these automatically. Primarily because the contestants are statistically likely to ask for them anyway (and statistically likely to have white teeth and wormy brains) so they start off with the popular ones and have to think of other letters to ask for (forgetting that the same people who calculated the popularity have also researched words & phrases & names that do NOT have the more common letters of the alphabet contained within them) in addition to figuring out what's behind the other panels. Something like giving a child a head start so that running swiftly past them makes their defeat that much more crushing, but infinitely weirder in that game show reality space. Follow my parentheticals, monkey boy.) Er, tangent. My apologies. Note that I said J WAS one of the least popular. It's status has changed. It has recently started showing up in more news articles and getting spoken on more broadcasts. Its average frequency has been so affected that it's literally gotten more popular. And the event that caused this change is of course a certain so-called Trial-Of-The-Century which shall remain nameless. Ew. KjC doing my part - one post, 18 J's -- Kelly J. Cooper kjc@ [APOCALYPSE] http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/kjc/home.html "How long before wings?" -mary szmagaj, "nocturne"