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I'm not sure many of you have seen this. My cousin emailed this to me and I found it extremely interesting. The answer blew me off. If you've never seen this before, do make a guess. I'm hopeful that some FoLCs, being very observant people, may actually see the answer. If you have seen this before, post anyway to say that you have, but don't reveal the answer yet.  Presenting, the unusual paragraph.... This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out.  metwin1
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I have seen this before, but I can't remember what was unusual about it! Tho, after looking at it, I think I remembered/guessed.  Loriel
"Inappropriate attachment" didn't begin to cover the depth of the feelings Vaughn had for Sydney Bristow.
~Ties That Bind by RJ Anderson~
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Ahhh! It took a bit of thought, but I think I might know why it's unusual...! Helga (This is almost an unusual post  )
Knowledge is knowing that tomatoes are a fruit.
Intelligence is not putting them in a fruit salad.
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Ooh, I think I might know why that paragraph is unusual... PJ (a totally unusual post  And sigs don't count!)
"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."
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Okay, I am probably really stupid, but the two people that are working with me on my stats project and I stared at this paragraph for about 10 minutes (yay procrastination) and none of us could figure out what was unusual about it!
- Alicia
Laura "The Yellow Dart" U. (Alicia U. on the archive)
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I'm terrible at these things, so I'll just wait for somebody to tell me the answer. If I try to figure it out I'll just drive myself insane, and I don't need any more of that! ~Anna
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Okay, I've tried and tried and now I give up. I know that as soon as someone tells me the answer I'm going see it. I feel like I'm really close and that it's something that should be really easy, but I just can't get it. Hurry up with the answer, I'm dying of curiosity.
Annie
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I have one idea as to why it's unusual, but now I want to know if I'm right or not! Patience never was my strong point!  Chris
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I think I've got it too... but don't know whether I'm right or not. But, if I am right, then this is not an unusual paragraph. Wendy 
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Well, I thought I had the right answer but everyone else seems to have a different answer to me, so now I'm completely confused. LabRat
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
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I knew the answer before I finished reading the paragraph. But my mother was a proofreader by profession and my brother writes logic puzzles for a living, so it's in the genes. If you need to know the answer hit the solution link at this site http://www.greylabyrinth.com/Puzzles/puzzle003.htm Amy 
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And so the answer is out. Turns out that I don't even need to give the answer after all. From reading the posts, I can tell that those who said that they guessed the answer really did get the correct answer. And those who didn't... well, I didn't get it too. My cousin had to tell me the answer. I'm just interested in Labrat's answer. Labrat, what did you think the answer was? And why did you think that your answer was different from the rest? Amy, thanks for including that website. I'm looking through the other puzzles, and I haven't managed to solve a single one without looking at the solution. Tells you the level of my IQ huh?  metwin1
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My guess was different from the 'correct answer.' However, my answer was quite correct.
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i thought about it. i got it. i took a look. i was right. i am curious about labby and anni's solution(s). also, if sigs don't count, this is an unusual post. not as unusual now, actually... Paul
When in doubt, think about penguins. It probably won't help, but at least it'll be fun.
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Oh, turns out I did have the right answer. What I was doing that was dumb was only looking at the sentence in brackets after nicks that everyone was putting in to prove they had the right answer. :rolleyes: When, of course, everyone meant the paragraph or the entire post. That mistake meant that I couldn't understand why people were saying the sentence was 'almost' odd when it didn't contain the letter. Should have been totally odd. <g> So that led me to think I had got it wrong somewhere and they were talking about something else entirely. LabRat (Moral: read things carefully )
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
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Anni, you can't leave us like that -- what was your other answer? PJ
"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
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"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
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Hey! I was right!!
Just a fly-by! *waves*
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okay, I was definitely on the right track, I just gave up too quickly. Should have stuck it out and looked for a few more letters and I'd have got in. Anyway, this was fun. I like riddles and puzzles like this, even if I am really bad at them.
Annie
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Well, Chief Pam, my first thought was that there wasn't any indentation. Of course, it's not strictly a paragraph, then. But then again, it kept saying that it was a paragraph.
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Okay, my friends and I are officially morons. We were looking for something gramatically wrong . I don't think we read the whole thing. It makes my conclusion that engineers are dumber than rocks oh so much more valid . - Alicia
Laura "The Yellow Dart" U. (Alicia U. on the archive)
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