The Game of Life

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A scene from my office yesterday: Partner challenges a manager and associate to a contest. Let's see who can type a message on the Blackberry the fastest! The sentence will be "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." The three of them get set and then go. After about 10 seconds or so, the partner says he's done. Manager goes over and checks the partner's message. Apparently the partner typed "jumped" instead of "jumps" and also did not put a period at the end of the sentence. In other words, did the partner really win if the sentence was not grammatically correct? The associate who was working with a Blackberry Storm was stuck at the word "The". Finally they quibbled over whether the partner's win was valid. Very funny as this all happened in the morning. Seems like an episode straight out of the TV series "The Office".