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# dont' know where it originated,
but it's been used as a placeholder for text e.g. in website templates since the dawn of www

edit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
(, Wed 15 Nov 2006, 12:01, archived)
# Not just websites
I used to use it when I was doing page layouts and stuff for my publishing class.
(, Wed 15 Nov 2006, 12:07, archived)
# yeah, I just read that too
see my edit above
(, Wed 15 Nov 2006, 12:09, archived)
# *nods*
You can get all sorts of greeking now- there's gens on the internet for hillbilly, to name but one.

Here we go- some hillbilly greeking:

Frontporch fishin' hairy hold give tractor tobaccee done quarrel.

Hootin' bull water fricaseed me fried darn out dogs rent hobo catfight, butt.

Fer inbred that sittin', poor tax-collectors dirty water aunt feathered jiggly, yippie.
(, Wed 15 Nov 2006, 12:13, archived)
# that reminds me...
i haven't yet checked the company's spam filter today... many spammers use bogus text like that to trick the filter (not that it would actually work)
(, Wed 15 Nov 2006, 12:26, archived)
#
I think it might be Cicero, or at least was originally.
(, Wed 15 Nov 2006, 12:12, archived)
# I was told it was just a jumble of latin words!
Does it make sense then? Ooooooh, interesting.
(, Wed 15 Nov 2006, 12:16, archived)