In the straight dope books, I keep hearing refereneces to the “gry” question. Which makes me wonder… JUST WHAT THE #@^)#^(@ing @(^%*#)^(8 IS THE “GRY” QUESTION?
Erm. Anyway, also, in “The Triumph Of The Straight Dope”, one AOL user named ‘IMSMRTRTNU’ writes in, to which cecil starts his column by replying to it:
URSMRTRNI(you are smarter than I)? DLUR(the hell you are), TRKE.
If you start at “There” and count three words, you find the 3rd word is “three”. Because in fact this version asks the question what is the third word? The third word in this version is “three”