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02/10/2003: Cool Tricks.

I skipped the article mentioned in the last update in favor of another for tomorrow – goes up at midnight. It’s about something that isn’t known to everyone, but those who do recognize it should be excited. How do you like all this mystery talk?

Speaking of mystery, a friend sent me a pretty cool trick today. Wanna play? I’ll post the first step here, and finish it off in the extended version of this entry:

Count the number of F’s in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC
STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS

After you’ve counted them, click ‘more.’

How many did you get?

Three?

WRONG.

There are six ‘F’ letters in the statement. Read it again…

FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC
STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS

Reason you were wrong: The brain cannot process the word ‘OF.’

Weird, huh?


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Discussion Thread: 35 comments

very.

Ghosted by kennef @ 02/10/2003 5:33 PM EST

i got one of the "of’s" but not the other two.

Ghosted by jess @ 02/10/2003 5:38 PM EST

My brain can’t process a lot of things, but this one was actually interesting.

Ghosted by Brett @ 02/10/2003 6:38 PM EST

I knew the trick, and still could only find five f’s…. I even counted like 100 times

Ghosted by chad @ 02/10/2003 6:45 PM EST

I got six first time around. Now I worry that my brain is out of whack. I seem to score this way on all sorts of psychological tests…

Ghosted by sempai @ 02/10/2003 6:58 PM EST

I got six too, partially because this is off of the computer screen and not an overhead projector, meaning my face is about three inches from the screen, but mostly because I learned this little trick in Intro Psych, which is where I viewed the aforementioned projection. "Fool me once, shame on..shame on you. Fool me…you can’t get fooled again!" :D

Ghosted by Wes @ 02/10/2003 7:37 PM EST

Even afer I clicked and it said about the word "of" and whatever… I only saw five f’s.

Ghosted by Jjgoreha @ 02/10/2003 7:45 PM EST

I even scrolled over each word with the mouse to count them, and I only got 3. I feel so stupid. =(

Ghosted by Evan @ 02/10/2003 10:54 PM EST

I think I saw this on Mr. Wizard once. Damn, I learned a lot from Mr. Wizard. Bill Nye was cool too, but Mr. Wizard was the best. Nickelodeon had it on at like 6 in the morning and I’d actually watch it. I miss Mr. Wizard.

Ghosted by DanHibiki @ 02/11/2003 12:37 PM EST

Well, 2 Mondays have passed, and no more 80s commercials have been added to the site. Are you adding any more in the future, Matt? just curious…

Ghosted by Corey Haim eats my table scraps @ 02/11/2003 1:06 AM EST

Redesign THAT page along with the archives, but don’t worry, plenty more still to come. Though, most of the recent articles have included commercial downloads not available in that section, so check ‘em again if you missed it.

Ghosted by Matt @ 02/11/2003 1:26 AM EST

Wait… which one was more robot and less toy (relatively speaking)… Coleco’s Max Steel or Tomy’s Omnibot 2000? My guess… Tomy had mecha supremacy, since they still are around, at least in Japan, though they don’t seem to be operating in North America anymore other than supplying those little Pokémon toys you get from vending machines in the plastic eggs that are one 2 dollar coin each… oh wait, there is no 2 dollar coin in the States.

Also, wasn’t there a recent videogame that was called "Max Steel"… (checking Gamefaqs.com) indeed there was, for the Dreamcast, though it was based on a Mattel action figure toy line apparently.

Ghosted by Steve Brandon @ 02/11/2003 1:45 AM EST

Oh yeah, I was in psychology in university a couple of years back, so I was fooled by the F counting trick too, though not this time, since I’ve seen it a couple of times before.

Ghosted by Steve Brandon @ 02/11/2003 1:47 AM EST

"Corey Haim eats my table scraps": Matt put a few more 80s commercials up on the UGO site here ( http://www.ugo.com/channels/freestyle/features/commercials/ ), including, WOOHOO!, the legendary (in my mind, at least) Colgate Pump commercial with the Mini-Pops kids singing about the Colgate Pump to the tune of Madness’s early ska hit "Baggy Trousers".

Ghosted by Steve Brandon @ 02/11/2003 1:50 AM EST

Oh yeah, I forgot about those. :) They predate X-E’s commercial section by a week or so.

I’ve got a whole other kind of download section going up soon, too. It’ll eat my bandwidth and my bandwidth’s children, but it’s still worth doing.

Ghosted by Matt @ 02/11/2003 1:56 AM EST

Ah, so you’ve had the Colgate Pump commercial, the single most memoriable commercial of my childhood (that or British Airways "Manhattan Landing", but they didn’t show that one during Transformers, G.I. Joe and Jem), all along, but it wasn’t ready for X-E "prime time"? Or are you just spacing the good ones out?

(By the way, I’m pretty sure it predates 1988… I started high school in 1988, and I didn’t watch nearly as many cartoons after school when I was in high school as I did from about 1984-87.)

Ghosted by Steve Brandon @ 02/11/2003 2:12 AM EST

Ghosted by evin @ 02/11/2003 4:00 AM EST

er…

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/maxsteel/msele2crop.jpg

Ghosted by evin @ 02/11/2003 4:01 AM EST

I counted 3,452,123 "f"s. Does that mean I’m super perceptive, and thus a super-human, or something?

Ghosted by Jack the Ripper @ 02/11/2003 4:41 AM EST

ive seen this trick tons f times, but still got it wrong

Ghosted by 'tin man @ 02/11/2003 6:09 AM EST

I feel like a smarty pants. I got 6 on the first try.

Ghosted by t-rah @ 02/11/2003 9:34 AM EST

I saw this trick before and counted all 6… You guys must be retarded if you’ve already seen it and still can’t do it!

Ghosted by andy @ 02/11/2003 9:41 AM EST

Ja, sehr interessant…

very interesting…

Ghosted by Eay @ 02/11/2003 11:50 AM EST

I blame alcohol for the fact that I was wrong.

Ghosted by Jeremy @ 02/11/2003 2:32 PM EST

I have punished my brain with a vigorous Q-Tip poking.

Ghosted by Nemesis @ 02/11/2003 4:12 PM EST

Starcade’s robot of choice was RB5X.
http://www.robotswanted.com/robotgallery/rb5x/
http://www.starcade.tv/Starcade/Special/RB5X.htm

Ghosted by 01010101...0 @ 02/11/2003 5:01 PM EST

I got four. The first time I read it, it felt wierd, like there should’ve been more F’s. So I did it again, counted four. Did it three more times, only counted four. Zany.

OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF

Ghosted by Jake @ 02/11/2003 9:58 PM EST

i guess the advent calander is just like the word of… =0(

Ghosted by susspect @ 02/11/2003 11:40 PM EST

F that shit. I got it wrong.

Ghosted by Conrad Bain @ 02/12/2003 12:54 PM EST

Anyone notice that Sy-Clone is refered to as "Tornado" in one of the panels of the comic?

I had a Sy-Clone…

Ghosted by Piscez @ 02/12/2003 1:04 AM EST

They probably were going to call him Tornado originally and couldn’t trademark it. Same thing happened with Dr. Mindbender, they call him the wrong name in part of his file card.

Ghosted by Casey Jones @ 02/12/2003 11:19 AM EST

I only counted two, then three, then got the of thing. I swallow mouthwash after gargling.

Ghosted by polyox @ 02/20/2003 12:49 PM EST

I read through it and counted 4, so I got one F but not the other 2 (I missed the first OFs, the ones in the 2nd row) but something felt wrong, so I went over it again slowly and carefully, and managed to get 6. But the whole time, the process seemed very difficult, which confused me at the time, considering I was just counting Fs. Makes sense now, though. I know that when i read, I tend to skip over names. I tend to remember characters more by their descriptions, which shouldn’t work, but somehow does. Yeah…the brain…weird. This is way too long. Sorry.

Ghosted by rfs @ 02/22/2003 12:44 PM EST

I counted six. Is there something wrong with me, am i too clever?

Ghosted by James @ 02/26/2003 2:30 PM EST

I got all six…read and spelt slowly..i guess age is on my side

Ghosted by mary @ 10/10/2003 7:31 PM EDT

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