Try this:1 open up Microsoft word2 in a new document type NYC in capitals3 highlight and change the font size to 724 then change the font to 'webdings' - interesting5 now change the font to 'wingdings' - even more interesting!!!
Email text from September 2001:
Subject: FW: Scary
One of the planes that hit the trade center towers was flight number : Q33NY
1) Open a new Word document and type in capital letters Q33NY2) highlight it3) enlarge the font to 484) click on Font Style and select "Wingdings"You will then will be amazed!!
I encourage everyone to try these experiments for themselves to see the results. For those who don't know how, or actually have lives and no time to play around with computer fonts, here's what the fuss is about:
Both the Webdings and Wingdings fonts, available in Microsoft Word and compatible programs, consist of small graphic icons in place of the standard letter set. If you convert a given block of text to either font, you end up with a string of pictures.
Wingdings have been around longer than Webdings, and indeed it was first observed nearly a decade ago that converting the letters "NYC" to Wingdings produces "interesting" results:
NYC =
Some at the time not only saw a hidden message in this, they assumed right off that it must have been intentional. A 1992 article in the New York Post even proclaimed, in screaming headlines, "Millions of computers carry secret message that urges death to Jews in New York City!" Microsoft, which first bundled the font with the release of its Windows 3.1 software, vehemently denied the charges, answering that any so-called "secret messages" were purely coincidental and that allegations of anti-Semitism in particular were
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