# Facebook "Quiz?" AAA, BBB, CCC..... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 13, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920 "2007-12-13T22:38:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/1 "2007-12-13T22:38:31Z")
So, I received a Facebook message that looks like this: > [@](#): > > Whats wrong here > > AAA > BBB > CCC > DDD > EEE > FFF > GGG > HHH > III > JJJ > KKK > LLL > MMM > NNN > OOO > PPP > QQQ > RRR > SSS > TTT > UUU > VVV > WWW > XXX > YYY > ZZZ > > Did you know that 80% of UCSD students could not find the error above? Repost this with the title “what’s wrong here”, and when you click "post ", the answer will be really obvious. I’m not going to repost this thing because it looks perfectly fine to me. What’s the catch? ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/2 "2007-12-13T22:42:13Z")
Apparently the problem is that word “Whats” in the description. It should be “What’s.” The -gry of the new generation. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/3 "2007-12-13T22:42:14Z")
I think it is that there is no apostrophe in “Whats”. That’s all I could find. Neat-o my first simul-post. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/4 "2007-12-13T22:43:08Z")
I believe there should be an apostrophe in “whats”. At least there’s one thing wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/5 "2007-12-13T22:43:15Z")
No question mark either. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/6 "2007-12-13T22:44:37Z")
wow two simul-posts in a row. I think the universe just blew it’s head off. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/7 "2007-12-13T22:45:06Z")
[QUOTE=Tahssa] wow two simul-posts in a row. I think the universe just blew it’s head off. [/QUOTE] With what? ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/8 "2007-12-13T22:45:54Z")
I’ve seen incantations where the OOO line was actually 000, or where the CCC line was COC. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/9 "2007-12-13T22:47:08Z")
I believe that it would have to be a 1920s style “death ray”. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/10 "2007-12-13T22:47:12Z")
[QUOTE=Aesiron] No question mark either. [/QUOTE] Could that also be a colon? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/11 "2007-12-13T22:49:56Z")
[QUOTE=Flander] Could that also be a colon? [/QUOTE] Na. That would be a bummer. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/12 "2007-12-13T22:54:54Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] Na. That would be a bummer. [/QUOTE] Your pun stinks. ---
**Author:** ![selego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@selego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/selego)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/13 "2007-12-13T23:02:09Z")
I’ve noticed two titles with this, “Whats wrong here” and “What’s wrong here?” So, if there has been an original post with correct grammar in the title, then the answer is simple. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/14 "2007-12-14T00:11:55Z")
The plot is predictable and the vocabulary is limited. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/15 "2007-12-14T00:18:44Z")
The 'i’s are missing their tittles. ---
**Author:** ![Layla01](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/layla01/32/15552_2.png) [@Layla01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Layla01)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/16 "2007-12-14T05:25:04Z")
The “I” s are lowercase "L"s, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/17 "2007-12-14T05:28:29Z")
So is this some sad reflection on how a college education doesn’t prepare us to be able to tell the difference between an I and a l? ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/18 "2007-12-14T05:42:10Z")
[QUOTE=Layla01] The “I” s are lowercase "L"s, apparently. [/QUOTE] No, they’re not. They’re upper-case 'I’s, right and proper, ‘I’ as in “Igloo”, though rendered without horizontal bars in the SDMB font. (Ironically, this _does_ become clear if you copy the message and prepare to post it to the SDMB, since, at least on my computer, the edit box for posts uses a font where upper-case ‘I’ has horizontal bars) I think all that’s going on here, all that was ever meant to be going on here, is that it’s just a ploy to sneakily get people to re-post this message in the hopes of making the (non-existent) error obvious, like the stupid chain messages that dominate YouTube (and, to my recollection, at least once dominated Facebook) but more devious about it. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/19 "2007-12-14T05:45:14Z")
[QUOTE=Layla01] The “I” s are lowercase "L"s, apparently. [/QUOTE] But the "I"s in the text quoted above _are_ actual letter "i"s. I checked. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920/20 "2007-12-14T13:11:42Z")
Everyone seems to have missed the part that pretty much tells you the answer: > [@](#): > > Repost this with the title “what’s wrong here”, and when you click "post ", the answer will be really obvious. (Although again, you could argue that there should be a question mark. And a capital letter.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-quiz-aaa-bbb-ccc/429920.md?page=2)