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Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Both Sublime and Ridiculous
First the good - brilliant piss-take of David 'Safehands' Seaman by Mike Walters in The Mirror. Seaman was comically at fault for both Fulham's goals at the weekend - "Seaman wandered out of his box like a giddy pensioner trying to find his coach home after a day trip..."
Not so good was the Mirror catching up with the story everyone else heard a week ago about the brain being able to unscramble sentences containing words with jumbled letters, as long as the first and last letters of the words are in the right place (...er, it's not as complicated as I've made it sound).
"Aoccdrnig to rscheear at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by isletf but the wrod as a wlohe and the biran fguiers it out"
well done Claire Donnelly - but I reckon 'research' ends in an 'h' not an 'r'.
Or am I being too pedantic?