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Latest post Fri, Jan 26 2007 8:15 AM by Crescent_star2000. 12 replies.
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Orior  +  255838 Mon, 14 Aug 06 09:45 PM

Read the lines below quickly:

A bird in the

the hand is worth two in the

the bush.

Now read it backwards. Did you get all the words first time through?

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Dj Bueno  +  255841 Mon, 14 Aug 06 09:53 PM
I didn't understand what we're supposed to do exactly? Do we have to read it backwards starting from the top or the bottom?
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Orior  +  255902 Tue, 15 Aug 06 12:53 AM

Aye, kinda. Okay, just read it and tell me if it makes complete sense.

Ah forget it. Stupid thing anyway. Sad [:(]

Alan.es, 3 yr 102 days ago
Not so much that it makes sense but is it a correct sentence?

There is a mistake, can you spot it?
Dj Bueno  +  256068 Tue, 15 Aug 06 12:16 PM
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
nona the brit  +  256127 Tue, 15 Aug 06 03:43 PM

I think that the point is that most people read it as A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. What it actually says is A bird in the the hand is worth two in the the bush.

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Orior, 3 yr 101 days ago
Spot on princess!
nona the brit  +  256160 Tue, 15 Aug 06 05:30 PM
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Dj Bueno  +  256162 Tue, 15 Aug 06 05:32 PM
 Nona The Brit wrote:

I think that the point is that most people read it as A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. What it actually says is A bird in the the hand is worth two in the the bush.

Actually I also read it in the way u did; however I thought that he wanted us to find out the real sentence perhaps..Otherwise it is nonsense..

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