try this (OT)

GrannyMae · #1 10-16-2005, 02:51 PM

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 AND EFFING YEARS ...

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How many ? 3?
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Wrong, there are 6 !!--no joke.
Read it again.
The reasoning behind it is further down.

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The brain cannot process "OF".
Go back and look again.

Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius.
Three is normal, four is quite rare.

<font color="red">ENJOY! </font>

(don't flame me if this has been posted before. i don't care.)

IggyWH · #2 10-16-2005, 02:54 PM

So I guess I'm normal? That's an upgrade from what I'm usually considered...

MoDOH · #3 10-16-2005, 02:58 PM

WTF!!

That was... weird...

pokerrookie · #4 10-17-2005, 01:15 PM

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WTF!!

That was... weird...

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jrobb83 · #5 10-16-2005, 03:00 PM

Thats freaking weird. After I read that it had six I went back and closely examined it and still didn't see the OFs.

GrannyMae · #6 10-16-2005, 03:37 PM

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Thats freaking weird. After I read that it had six I went back and closely examined it and still didn't see the OFs.

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me too. i needed the last bit of info. i'm ususally good at these, but this one got me. then i ran it by lorinda (math & logic geek) and she got 3 as well. that's why i posted it.

groo · #7 10-17-2005, 12:48 PM

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Thats freaking weird. After I read that it had six I went back and closely examined it and still didn't see the OFs.

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Yeah, but you're in Tempe and you're probably a Sun Devil. It's expected that you'd miss little things. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Cubswin · #8 10-16-2005, 03:05 PM

i counted all six... but then again i remember this little exercise from many years back. what do i win?

GrannyMae · #9 10-16-2005, 03:41 PM

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i counted all six... but then again i remember this little exercise from many years back. what do i win?

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the warm feeling that your long-term memory is still intact. enjoy it while it lasts.

[censored] · #10 10-16-2005, 03:06 PM

What's amazing is I knew it was a trick. I counted the first time and saw 3 going word by word. I counted a second time this time highlighting as I went through I got 3. I then went backwards right to left and that was the only way I could see 6.