Microsoft Word Easter Egg

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Tue Aug 25 23:22:45 1998

Sam Ismail wrote:
>
> On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Markus Blumrich wrote:
>
> > For those of us who have avoided buying this Microsoft product, would
> > someone be kind enough to post what it actually says?
>
> You check the thesaurus on "I'd like to see Bill Gates dead." and the last
> phrase the thesaurus comes up with is "I'll drink to that."
>
> Its basically a matter of poor pattern recognition. All you really have
> to do is highlight "I'd" to get the same results everytime. In other
> words, its a coincidence. You could substitute Gates' name with "Markus
> Blumrich" and it would come out the same way.
>
> The "zzzz" look-up apparently comes up with "sex", but not on my version
> for some reason.

And neither works today under Office/Word '97 under NT Server 4.0.
-- 
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram_at_cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
Bill Gates has this situation where the federal government wants him
convicted for attempting a monopoly.  Has Bill considered responding
with a question as to why there's only one Justice Department?
Received on Tue Aug 25 1998 - 23:22:45 BST

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