Q33NY

[Damn, Dirty Ape]

Anyone hear about this?

Occording to a VERY unreliable source (my brother-in-law), "Q33NY" was the "registration number" of the first plane to collide with WTC, AA flight 11 (I have no idea what a registration number is).

If you open Word and type "Q33NY" (case sensitive), choose a large font (36+) and switch the font style to Wingdings, an ominous message appears.

I dunno. I'm about 99% sure this is a hoax.

I don't think the font size matters

[Damn, Dirty Ape]

No, font size doesn't matter. Larger font makes the webdings clearer.

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http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blwingdings.htm

If your so sure it is a hoax why did you post it?

From the above website:

"Neither of the airliners involved in the attack on the World Trade Center bore the number "Q33NY."

The actual flight numbers were as follows: American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175. It's clear, then, that someone carefully fabricated the sequence of numbers and letters in the email to achieve the desired effect"

This was refering to the first version of this email hoax. Someone later change it to the registration number!

They also give so other weird combos of letters for wingding fonts.


May I suggest people use the many resources on the internet to get a laugh at all the dumb ass hoaxes out there


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[Damn, Dirty Ape]

Thanks for the link, Biker. Now I'm off to further use the internet to cure dumbasses of their ignorance with more than just insults and frowning.

[Dick the Bruiser]

I'm sure glad B.A. ain't my boss.

[Weatherman]

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: d*mn, Dirty Ape on 2001-09-21 16:55 ]</font>

It's funny that the forum edits your name.

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try http://www.eeggs.com for fun with "easter eggs", embedded nonsense in software.

Few other urban legends, hoax busters,... Pages

U.S. Department of Energies' CIAC(Computer Incident Advisory Capability) Hoax Busters
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

the CIAC page have links to other hoax pages


http://www.scambusters.org/legends.html

If you want more go to Google and searchon urban legends hoax and you get a whole bunch

[golgo13]

There's also www.snopes.com

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