More Fun with the Wingdings Font!!!
Eric S. Raymond
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%{
/************************************************************************
NAME
wingding.l
DESCRIPTION
A lex program to assist in investigating "secret messages" in the Wingdings
font of Microsoft Windows. Theory: if we generate enough of these and flood
the media with them, the public will eventually catch on to the silliness
of the whole exercise. To make, do
lex wingding.l
mv lex.yy.c wingding.c
cc wingding.c -o wingding
BUGS
This is a fast, sloppy hack. The problem doesn't deserve anything better.
AUTHOR
Eric S. Raymond <er...@snark.thyrsus.com>, 2 May 1992
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%}
%%
[Aa] {(void) printf("peace-sign-hand ");}
[Bb] {(void) printf("hand-\"okay\"-sign ");}
[Cc] {(void) printf("thumbs-up ");}
[Dd] {(void) printf("thumbs-down ");}
[Ee] {(void) printf("pointing-left ");}
[Ff] {(void) printf("pointing-right ");}
[Gg] {(void) printf("pointing-up ");}
[Hh] {(void) printf("pointing-down ");}
[Ii] {(void) printf("palm-forward ");}
[Jj] {(void) printf("happy-face ");}
[Kk] {(void) printf("indifferent-face ");}
[Ll] {(void) printf("frowning-face ");}
[Mm] {(void) printf("bomb-with-fuse-lit ");}
[Nn] {(void) printf("poison-symbol ");}
[Oo] {(void) printf("rectangular-flag ");}
[Pp] {(void) printf("triangular-flag ");}
[Qq] {(void) printf("airplane ");}
[Rr] {(void) printf("sun ");}
[Ss] {(void) printf("raindrop ");}
[Tt] {(void) printf("snowflake ");}
[Uu] {(void) printf("cross ");}
[Vv] {(void) printf("shaded-cross ");}
[Ww] {(void) printf("fancy-cross ");}
[Xx] {(void) printf("Maltese-cross ");}
[Yy] {(void) printf("star-of-David ");}
[Zz] {(void) printf("crescent-and-star ");}
. {ECHO;}
%%
static int yywrap()
{
return(-1);
}
main()
{
while (yylex() > 0)
continue;
}
/* wingding.l ends here */
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And now, more Wingdings decodings from the Paranoids for a Better Tomorrow:
BSA (Boy Scouts of America): hand-"okay"-sign raindrop peace-sign-hand
Obviously these are secret instructions that it's OK to spit on peaceniks.
FSU (Former Soviet Union): pointing-right raindrop cross
God's gonna flood the commies out till they convert!
FBI: pointing-right hand-"okay"-sign palm-forward
The FBI is OK and protects you. However, the use of the Hindu palm-forward
mudra for "protection" may indicate that our stalwart G-Men gave been
Corrupted by Foreign Influences.
CIA: thumbs-up palm-forward peace-sign-hand
Everything will be OK if we can just stop the damn hippies.
NBC: poison-symbol hand-"okay"-sign thumbs-up
We'll rot your brain, but it's OK. Really. Think positive.
CBS: thumbs-up hand-"okay"-sign raindrop
We'll make you so happy you'll cry.
ABC: peace-sign-hand hand-"okay"-sign thumbs-up
Gad! This network's been infiltrated by those damn hippies!
All hail Discordia!
--
Eric S. Raymond = er...@snark.thyrsus.com (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)
Eugene Pang
waiting for my downloads to finish.
For example, I came up with:
IBM: palm-forward hand-"okay"-sign bomb-with-fuse-lit
Wait...it's supposed to crash.
INTEL: palm-forward poison-symbol snowflake pointing-left frowning-face
Hey! Use our cool 80x86 chips, they're backwards compatible...uh...
even with the 8086.
MAC: bomb-with-fuse-lit peace-sign-hand thumbs-up
Hippies with a bomb?! Right...it must be good...uh...whatever you say.
ATARI: peace-sign-hand snowflake peace-sign-hand sun palm-forward
Yikes! Even more hippies flogging the coolest thing this side of the sun.
In the end, you'll wait for something else.
...I'm just having problems interpreting the rectangular-flag in:
MSDOS: bomb-with-fuse-lit raindrop thumbs-down rectangular-flag raindrop
James 'Kibo' Parry
> A lex program to assist in investigating "secret messages" in the Wingdings
>font of Microsoft Windows. Theory: if we generate enough of these and flood
>the media with them, the public will eventually catch on to the silliness
I know a font that's not just anti-Semitic. It's actually Satanic.
A very old decorative typeface (I can't remember how old, I think early
Victorian) of blackletter, somewhat distressed (as if it's been printed
on lumpy parchment) was named 'Satanick'. (You can still find it in
some comprehensive photoype catalogs; no, nobody sells it for computers
that I know of.)
Satanick is just the thing for printing pacts with the Devil. In red
ink, of course.
Should we tell the New York Post about this? ("This proves there are
Satanist baby-snatchers abounding, they have their own FONT!")
-- K.
Oke S
>...I'm just having problems interpreting the rectangular-flag in:
> MSDOS: bomb-with-fuse-lit raindrop thumbs-down rectangular-flag raindrop
Well, everything else is 'bad', so I guess the flag must be just a glitch...
well, what do you expect from DOS?
--
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80% of statistics are wrong.
Matthias Neeracher
>
> MSDOS: bomb-with-fuse-lit raindrop thumbs-down rectangular-flag raindrop
It crashes so often it could make you cry, but it isn't square to cry.
How about ichthus (Greek for "Fish", but an early code word for Christ) ?
palm-forward thumbs-up pointing-down snowflake pointing-down cross raindrop
Which means:
It's ok to push him and put him down, it's cool that he was buried, crucified
and spit on.
psu: triangular-flag (Symbol for god) raindrop cross => Jesus wept.
help: pointing-down pointing-left frowning-face triangular-flag
=> Leftists will go to hell because they frown upon God.
Matthias
Nick Haines
MSDOS: bomb-with-fuse-lit raindrop thumbs-down rectangular-flag raindrop
How about "Microsoft are anarchists who piss on the flag" as a loose
interpretation?
Nick
Stewart Fleming
Here's some more...
DEC
thumbs-down pointing-left thumbs-up
"Problem ? Call DECdirect. No problem."
bill gates
hand-"okay"-sign palm-forward frowning-face frowning-face pointing-up
peace-sign-hand snowflake pointing-left raindrop
"I'm a nice guy and I want to be your friend ! No ? No !
Up yours, man ! I'm so cool I could cry."
apple computer
peace-sign-hand triangular-flag triangular-flag frowning-face
pointing-left thumbs-up rectangular-flag bomb-with-fuse-lit
triangular-flag cross snowflake pointing-left sun
"We replaced the hippies with a bunch of squares we thought were OK, but
who suck big-time. God ! Now all the cool guys are at Sun."
nt (New Technology)
poison-symbol snowflake
"Will kill your system, but it's really cool. Honest."
AFC (alt.folklore.computers)
peace-sign-hand pointing-right thumbs-up
"A bunch of hippies who will solve everything."
Hmmm - maybe there is something in this after all.
Quick - somebody get the TLA file from sci.space and we can really
have some fun.
STF
[These ones should probably go to alt.conspiracy...
JFK
happy-face pointing-right indifferent-face
LBJ
frowning-face hand-"okay"-sign happy-face
LHO
frowning-face pointing-down rectangular-flag
]
--
sfle...@cs.hw.ac.uk ...ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!sfleming
overtech - a tandem with aero bars...for the stoker.
Noah Friedman
>I know a font that's not just anti-Semitic. It's actually Satanic.
>
>A very old decorative typeface (I can't remember how old, I think early
>Victorian) of blackletter, somewhat distressed (as if it's been printed
>on lumpy parchment) was named 'Satanick'. (You can still find it in
>some comprehensive photoype catalogs; no, nobody sells it for computers
>that I know of.)
Note that the opposite typeface (for writing holy scriptures, of course)
is the "baptismal font". :-)
Peter da Silva
Adobe and Apple are sending...
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%!Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS. +1 713 568 0480/1032. `-_-'
% Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U`
systemdict /sig_virus known { eexec } if
0931789ABA04700000093759014FEEDFACE514783DEADBEEF59FFFF579837FFFF7315988971
Alfvaen
> Time to dig into Zapf Dingbats and Cairo and see what secret messages
> Adobe and Apple are sending...
I found on called Mortbats on my NeXT that has a lot of the same symbols
described for Wingding. Obviously similarly inspired, from the name, but
not the same. I can post a list of characters for you, if we want to see
what lurketh there...
--
---Alfvaen(a.k.a. Aaron V. Humphrey)
Canadian Network For Space Research, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
You made my day--now you have to sleep in it.
Current Album--Kate Bush:Hounds of Love
Rob McCool
: Time to dig into Zapf Dingbats and Cairo and see what secret messages
: Adobe and Apple are sending...
I think it's all a conspiracy. Apple and Adobe are sending Microsoft messages
in those symbol fonts, and it's actually how their spies communicate.
: --
: %!Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS. +1 713 568 0480/1032. `-_-'
: % Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U`
: systemdict /sig_virus known { eexec } if
: 0931789ABA04700000093759014FEEDFACE514783DEADBEEF59FFFF579837FFFF7315988971
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Rob McCool: NCSA STG System Administrator
stga...@ncsa.uiuc.edu ro...@ncsa.uiuc.edu r-mc...@uiuc.edu rmc...@imsa.edu
It was working ten minutes ago, I swear...
Martin Schweikert
I fed my initials (MHS) to your program, and it reported
"bomb-with-fuse-lit pointing-down raindrop"
Is it my destiny that I will flood the earth with bombs from above??
Even worse when I fed my first name, Martin, to it. It reported
"bomb-with-fuse-lit peace-sign-hand sun snowflake palm-forward
poison-symbol"
Horrid! I'm so ashamed of myself ;-)
--
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<>< Life-Net: martin_s...@credo.zer (Joh3:16) / two things: Belief in
Fax: +49 208 85 97 108, Phone: +49 208 85 97 142 / Christ and Murphy's Law