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I Issue a Challenge!

Stoic Beverage

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It's generally said (in the profiles of INTPs I've read online) that the INTP loves word games. So, you all should like this.

Pangrams. I want you to write them.
A pangram is a sentence or phrase containing every letter of the alphabet. The most well-known example I can think of is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Rules:
-The shorter the pangram, the better. In general, they should be 60 or less letters. Less than 35 (the number of letters in the above example) earns you an imaginary high-five from anyone of your choosing, though you have to do the imagining.
-No proper nouns, sorry.
-The pangram can be silly, but it must have proper grammar.
-It goes unsaid, but all pangrams should be your own. No theft.

I tried making an example myself, and in 15 minutes I came up with this (although it exceeds the letter limit by 1):
The fey's phalanx marched ground because I quipped "kill ten wheezing jets!"
 

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' I jumped to the quill in envy and forged Nietzsche's exuberant work '
54 letters by my count. 10 minutes.
I will try another one later on
oh.. perhaps it broke the noun rule ? :(
Should have read the rules more carefully :laugh:
 

Cavallier

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I started and restarted this a bunch of times to make it as short as possible!

When joking, expose zero quivers abdicating formality.


Bleh. 46.
 

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I've stolen the "Lazy" and the "Fox" from your sentence, hope you don't mind.

"Meanwhile, a big lazy fox, the quickest animal that deep, enjoys jive."

10min 55 letters
 

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I got a weird sentence in the imperative sense which broke some rules kind of but got it down to 33!

JFK; write lengthy borax quiz CDs, win MVP

(where mvp = most valuable president.)
 

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I'm terrible at this kind of thing and tired so I'll cheat for now.

(From a story about the planet zuve, where strange creatures live who communicate only with consonants, and then only the convenient ones.)

"The zuvin alphabet goes cdfjkmpqrwxy"
 

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A pangram is a sentence or phrase containing every letter of the alphabet.
Rules:
-The shorter the pangram, the better. In general, they should be 60 or less letters. Less than 35 (the number of letters in the above example) earns you an imaginary high-five from anyone of your choosing, though you have to do the imagining.
-No proper nouns, sorry.
-The pangram can be silly, but it must have proper grammar.
-It goes unsaid, but all pangrams should be your own. No theft.
What is, "bcdefgjklmnopqruvxyz"?
Twenty-six letters. Three hours, forty-one minutes, sixty-two seconds.

That was an improvement on my 1st try: What is, "bcdefgjklmnoppruvxyz"? :confused:
where "p" was duplicated and I couldn't find a place for the Q.

Oh well. I tried.

Edit: I forgot my timings for the 1st try: 42 seconds. Took me the 3hrs+ to make the improvement.
 
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What is, "bcdefgjklmnopqruvxyz"?
Twenty-six letters. Three hours, forty-one minutes, sixty-two seconds.

That was an improvement on my 1st try: What is, "bcdefgjklmnoppruvxyz"? :confused:
where "p" was duplicated and I couldn't find a place for the Q.

Oh well. I tried.

Hey I have a birth defect where my bladder is EXTREMELY small so I have to urinate like every 15 minutes.

So duplicated Ps are the bane of my existence. (pee pee)
 

Névtelen

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Quixotic hippy wizards fuck a juvenile mango crab.

Too much time.
 

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Obnoxious freaky white penguin dances to a quick lovely jazz rhythm.

I had a creepier one earlier.
 

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I once took apart a keyboard and rearranged the letters to say "sphinx of black qu4rtz j?dge my v0w". And then I made a custom keyboard layout so that the keys would actually type that way.

No, I didn't come up with it.
 

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Obnoxious freaky white penguin dances to a quick lovely jazz rhythm.

I had a creepier one earlier.

Nice one :)
 

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' I jumped to the quill in envy and forged Nietzsche's exuberant work '
54 letters by my count. 10 minutes.
I will try another one later on
oh.. perhaps it broke the noun rule ? :(
Should have read the rules more carefully :laugh:

It's ok if it's Nietzsche.

No, I don't have a Pangram to add.
 
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