# What the ??

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/155908>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 18, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/155908 "2003-02-18T16:31:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Flying\_Monk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@Flying\_Monk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flying_Monk)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/155908/1 "2003-02-18T16:31:45Z")

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Due to conversation in the Walmart thread, I looked into transshipping…and found the following site, which I think deserves the Huh?!? award.

[http://joyce.eng.yale.edu/~bt/school/report.cgi/redemptive/twisty/vishnu.htm](http://joyce.eng.yale.edu/~bt/school/report.cgi/redemptive/twisty/vishnu.htm)

Can someone give me a clue?

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**Author:** ![raygirvan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@raygirvan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raygirvan)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/155908/2 "2003-02-18T17:07:48Z")

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Some sort of auto page-generating system (notice that it’s different very time you reload it). You could ask its owner: [http://joyce.eng.yale.edu/~bt/](http://joyce.eng.yale.edu/~bt/)

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/155908/3 "2003-02-18T18:32:20Z")

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Someone set up a web page with a huge, random bank of words, and is counting the number of hits recieved.

Maybe. According to the page, it hasn’t been updated in five years.

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**Author:** ![hammerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@hammerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammerbach)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the/155908/4 "2003-02-19T06:36:20Z")

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A new “Finnegan’s Wake”?