[TigersEye]

It's not an old joke it's a pattern recognition thing. For years I thought your handle was mrs smith until I finally took a hard look at it. It's a perceptual phenomena similar to this ...

Take a look at this paragraph. Can you read what it says? All the letters have been jumbled (mixed). Only the first and last letter of ecah word is in the right place:

I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae.

[Salamander]

Yaaaah....what Tiger said.

/wiggling off the hook

:D

[mrsmith]

Absolutely.
And when people utilize it honestly- which I’ve seen ‘good’ and ‘bad’ posters do- it indicates they are thinking sloppily, not critically. Which hurts their argument, whatever it was.

An unfair advantage, but I don’t think I abuse it.