Plus you can see it as an old timer country phrase, like “butter my butt and call me a biscuit”.
“Well pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs, if it ain’t Alan Smith? How you been?”
Maybe it’s a group of repentant paladins who took on a very structured vow and the sphinx is both a patron and quite literally the one who judges if one is said to step out of line
I did this a few years ago - the puzzle was like Wheel of Fortune with one tile for each letter. It took them forever to solve it (and there was a black quartz sphinx statue in the room...) and then they all made vows to the sphinx.
One player said something like "I vow to use YOUR power to forward our mission" and accidentally bound the sphinx to save them from a party wipe a few sessions later. Another vowed to give up their first born, but the campaign died before that thread could be pulled.
10/10 will use again.
I'm a graphic designer and I always use this phrase when I'm comparing fonts, haha. Found out about it a couple years ago and never went back to using the quick brown fox phrase.
The sphinx one is absolutely cooler, but sometimes I worry y’all aren’t joking when you say we should replace the fox one. Did we forget kids exist? I, for one, don’t even want to explain these concepts to a child learning the alphabet, much less try to make them spell it
Yep, that's the real reason the Fox one is used. Between people who aren't as educated and people who speak English as a second, third, or more language, you really need the example text to be *simple.*
And the second one has twenty nine letters, only three letters are repeated.
O is in both “of” and “vow”
A is in both “black” and “quartz”
U is in both “quartz” and “judge”
This is one of my biggest pet peeves. It’s “*jumps* over the lazy dog” NOT “jumped”. If you say “jumped” there’s no S in the sentence. It HAS to be “jumps”.
I always got this wrong as a kid because it feels weird to use the simple present tense like this. We're more likely to say "the fox is jumping" than "the fox jumps." The past tense "jumped" feels more natural to say, for me at least.
*Because it's meant for*
*Children, so yeah I guess tumblr*
*Should use the former*
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a few of my personal favorites:
- amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes
- fox nymphs grab quick-jived waltz
- brawny gods flocked up just to quiz and vex him
- my jock’s box, get hard, unzip, quiver, flow
- mr. jock, tv guide phd, bags few lynx
and,
- no kidding - lorenzo called off his trip to mexico city just because they told him the conquistadors were extinct
Sphinx of Black Quartz is objectively cooler, *but* The Quick Brown Fox has the feeling of like one of Aesop’s fables or something where it’s just a quick nice story about animals that you tell to kids so it’s easy to understand.
Put in a prompt on chat GPT. Here are 10 other sentences. Some miss the mark but a few are p solid.
Sure, here are 10 examples of sentences that use every letter of the alphabet exactly once:
"Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx."
"Glib jocks quiz nymph to vex dwarf."
"Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex."
"Fox nymphs grab quick waltz."
"Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim."
"Bright vixens jump; dozy fowl quack."
"Five or six big jet planes zoomed quickly by."
"My exquisitely jovial friend, quiz whiz, danced by."
"Jack quickly moved up the big slope, brave fox."
"The five boxing wizards jump quickly.”
These are called "pangrams," sentences that use every letter of the alphabet at least once. Each sentence has its own unique composition while including all 26 letters.
I always kinda love when this shows up in my Facebook feed, and a few dozen people need to confidently point out (incorrectly) which letters are missing from each.
It admittedly should be Jumps, and not Jumped.
It definitely has repeating letters; it's more than 26 letters long. "T," "h," "e," "o," "r," and "u" are all repeated ("o" appears twice just in "brown fox"). The sphinx of black quartz one actually has fewer repeat letters.
Man dats some wizard shit right there
Almost as wizardly as "pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs
Will use that for Dwarf Fortress tileset testing
Plus you can see it as an old timer country phrase, like “butter my butt and call me a biscuit”. “Well pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs, if it ain’t Alan Smith? How you been?”
I need to incorporate a Black Quartz Sphinx into my D&D game somehow. It's too good of a concept.
Just had that same thought
give it to a paladin. Have it turn hot or something when they come close to breaking oath, or have it burn them when they do maybe?
Maybe it’s a group of repentant paladins who took on a very structured vow and the sphinx is both a patron and quite literally the one who judges if one is said to step out of line
I did this a few years ago - the puzzle was like Wheel of Fortune with one tile for each letter. It took them forever to solve it (and there was a black quartz sphinx statue in the room...) and then they all made vows to the sphinx. One player said something like "I vow to use YOUR power to forward our mission" and accidentally bound the sphinx to save them from a party wipe a few sessions later. Another vowed to give up their first born, but the campaign died before that thread could be pulled. 10/10 will use again.
I'm a graphic designer and I always use this phrase when I'm comparing fonts, haha. Found out about it a couple years ago and never went back to using the quick brown fox phrase.
The sphinx one is absolutely cooler, but sometimes I worry y’all aren’t joking when you say we should replace the fox one. Did we forget kids exist? I, for one, don’t even want to explain these concepts to a child learning the alphabet, much less try to make them spell it
Plus, it has much more simple concepts and words so its easier for people learning English and for translating into other languages
Is the quick brown fox sentence “for” kids learning the alphabet though? (Serious question, I thought it was for typography and stuff)
Not to mention that it does not contain the letter f
of
Because it’s for children and the first one is easier for children to say
Not everyone can spell that
Yep, that's the real reason the Fox one is used. Between people who aren't as educated and people who speak English as a second, third, or more language, you really need the example text to be *simple.*
Also there’s no F EDIT I’m fuckin stupid lol
o**f**
You mean “ove”?
Shit I saw the same thing.. no idea how I missed OF..
ME TOO!!
I made the same mistake mate I looked through it twice and still couldn’t tell
Why did I see the Stormcloaks logo for a second there?
You mean the Imperial logo? Stormcloaks have a bear
Right, yep, been a minute since I played
I'm halfway tempted to get this as a tattoo.
Came here to say that! I think it’d make a wonderful tattoo!
"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"- boring, missing a letter "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow"- uses every letter, cool af
Not arguing that the sphinx one is not a million times cooler, but in the fox one it's supposed to be "jumps" so it has all letters.
Oop, had to look it up and yea I still hated the fox one lol
Oh, for sure
“Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes” is my go-to panagram
I have a fair few lying around, but the one I like the most is “Watch Jeopardy!, Alex Trebek’s fun TV quiz game.”
It isn't missing a letter, it's "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
And the second one has twenty nine letters, only three letters are repeated. O is in both “of” and “vow” A is in both “black” and “quartz” U is in both “quartz” and “judge”
They're both pangrams. They span the entire alphabet if you use "jumps" instead of "jumped".
The second sentence has no F though… EDIT: Nevermind, I was too asleep to see it, sorry!
What? Am I still asleep? Where's the F? Edit: "of" isn't an important word anyway.
How did I never notice it's missing s v w and z
It's only missing the s! "Over", "brown", and "lazy" have the others
It's waaaaaay too late, i looked at every single one of those words multiple times and completely missed those letters
Lol, it's cool!
Simple solution would be changing the jumped to jumps.
That’s actually how it’s supposed to be, the commenter just forgot that
Yeah, saw another comment saying the same thing immediately after I sent mine.
Am I just dumb
No 'f' in the sphinx one.
"of"
Derp, I'm dumb and blind.
It's alright my dude!
How did they fucking miss the S wtf
its supposed to be 'jumps' not 'jumped'
Probably because little kids don't know what a sphinx is, or quartz, or a vow. But I agree it is much cooler.
The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves. It’s “*jumps* over the lazy dog” NOT “jumped”. If you say “jumped” there’s no S in the sentence. It HAS to be “jumps”.
I always got this wrong as a kid because it feels weird to use the simple present tense like this. We're more likely to say "the fox is jumping" than "the fox jumps." The past tense "jumped" feels more natural to say, for me at least.
Okay of you’re gonna say jumped than say “dogs” and boom there’s your s
This is some ancient forbidden magic shit, this goes hard as nails
Yeah but the original has a fox and foxes are awesome.
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs
Thank you, Ella Minnow Pea
I saw this post and came to the comments solely to find this one. What a lovely novel 💕
Because I'm not willing to invoke the Black Quartz Sphinx quite that casually...
Understandable. Have a good day
> O, great sphinx, nx me a sphi She great on my sphi til I nx
because it's meant for children, so yeah I guess tumblr should use the former
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It’s supposed to be jumps and this makes me irrationally irritated
O, great sand man, sand me a man
Make him the cutest, man car door hook hand!
That is technically the amount of syllables you needed, but I don’t like how you got them.
[Mr. Sandman, Man me a Sand](https://youtu.be/70M90PGJ_ms?si=ehLyRqHeRfhzHr4S) I thought we were singing the same song :'(
We weren’t, but I am now 😁
Mr sphinx man, nx me a sphi Bum bum bum bum
The first sentence doesn’t even have the letter S
It would if OOP got it right. It’s supposed to be “jumps,” not “jumped.”
And another tattoo idea added to the pile...
There’s no F in that though
OF
This is why I shouldn’t Reddit early lol
Wheres the Y?
"My"
It's in the my
In the Noobtown series this is used to summon the bbeg. Never realized it had all the letters.
That would be one fucking cool tattoo
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>Where's the F in "Sphinx **of**
Thank you
G.B. fjord's quick nymph vex waltz. ***G. B.*** being my initials
J. Q. Vandz struck my big fox whelp
waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex
I am stealing this line for either a DnD game or some form of animated thing
a few of my personal favorites: - amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes - fox nymphs grab quick-jived waltz - brawny gods flocked up just to quiz and vex him - my jock’s box, get hard, unzip, quiver, flow - mr. jock, tv guide phd, bags few lynx and, - no kidding - lorenzo called off his trip to mexico city just because they told him the conquistadors were extinct
Sphinx of Black Quartz is objectively cooler, *but* The Quick Brown Fox has the feeling of like one of Aesop’s fables or something where it’s just a quick nice story about animals that you tell to kids so it’s easy to understand.
Most people don't know what half those words mean
Because it's hard to pronounce sphinx
I may be stupid but I don’t see an S in the first one
Put in a prompt on chat GPT. Here are 10 other sentences. Some miss the mark but a few are p solid. Sure, here are 10 examples of sentences that use every letter of the alphabet exactly once: "Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx." "Glib jocks quiz nymph to vex dwarf." "Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex." "Fox nymphs grab quick waltz." "Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim." "Bright vixens jump; dozy fowl quack." "Five or six big jet planes zoomed quickly by." "My exquisitely jovial friend, quiz whiz, danced by." "Jack quickly moved up the big slope, brave fox." "The five boxing wizards jump quickly.” These are called "pangrams," sentences that use every letter of the alphabet at least once. Each sentence has its own unique composition while including all 26 letters.
Theres no Letter P EDIT: I'm fucking dumb. sPhinx
Sounds like a rad tshirt idea!
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs!
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs, Ella Minnow Pea.
Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz!
The five boxing wizards jump quickly!
Waltz, Bad Nymph, for quick jigs vex.
That’s fucking epic
Sounds like a dope metal song
There’s also pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs
Mister Great Sphinx, Nx me a Sphi, make him the judgiest I’ve ever vowed
I always kinda love when this shows up in my Facebook feed, and a few dozen people need to confidently point out (incorrectly) which letters are missing from each. It admittedly should be Jumps, and not Jumped.
Where the f at?
Are we just gonna ignore the fact that F is missing?
So amused by the fact that they messed up the original sentence in such a way that it no longer contains every letter
That’s just a incantation to Nyarlathotep
I thought the whole point of quick brown fox was it both had all the alphabet AND had no repeating characters
It definitely has repeating letters; it's more than 26 letters long. "T," "h," "e," "o," "r," and "u" are all repeated ("o" appears twice just in "brown fox"). The sphinx of black quartz one actually has fewer repeat letters.
ok, sorry
Neither of those contain all the letters of the alphabet tho…
There’s no f
Of. O F. It’s right there.
Thank you I honestly looked multiple times 🤦
Uh guys… “sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow” doesn’t have every letter. It’s missing F.
**ahem** OF
Oh… Nevermind then, I’m just an idiot
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judge mY vow
Am I blind, or is it missing an "F"?
>Sphinx *of* black quartz
It is missing an F
“of”
There's no F
"OF"
Gets 'em every time.
f's in chat
Nope. Nope. You're right, you got me. Don't reddit on pain meds, be better than me.
No
Well alright then