"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country"

[nashville_brook]

anyone else learn this sentence as they learned to type? my mother taught it to me and eveytime i try out a new keyboard i type it without thinking. kind of a nice habit to pop up out of nowhere.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. The one I learned was:

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."

Uses every letter of the alphabet, I'm told. I've always been too lazy to check ................

[Sawyer]

2. It's "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs". n/t

[OldLeftieLawyer]

4. See?

Told you I was lazy .............

[Window]

3. Yes,

that's the one I was taught also.

[neuvocat]

5. "Thomas and Mandy made microwavable mounds of cakes."

[Hapameli]

6. me too! - nm

[mcscajun]

7. "...to the aid of their party." was how I learned it. Plus that other...

"The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dogs."

All the letters in the alphabet are in that one.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

8. . . .to the aid of their party" was how my dad types it as well

nt

[nashville_brook]

9. mother would whisper that it "should be" party, but that it was nicer to

say "country." always seemed like a sweet 40s thing to do. i imagined the andrew sisters in a wartime movie learning to type in a pool -- you know, going out and helping the war effort in the hopes of finding a hunky soldier.

[mcscajun]

10. The "...come to the aid of..." line always reminds me of an old TV ad

from either the late 50s or very early 60s. It was animated (B&W of course) and featured the following song:

"To inaugurate your candidate,
come to the aid of your party.
Don't pass the buck, but give a buck
to the party of your choice."