Quick Foxes and Lazy Dogs: an Investigation

Quick Foxes and Lazy Dogs: An Investigation

Mary Basset

John Dane

Abstract

This paper is about a quick brown fox that jumped over a lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

In the beginning the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog (Fox and Hound 1995). The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

In the beginning the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog (Labrador 1973, Nash 1988). The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

1. Brown foxes

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Woof (1989) suggests the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. As Woof (1989) has stated…

“Dogs that are too lazy will be surpassed by the quick foxes. The quick foxes will begin to jump even more frequently over the lazy dogs. The dogs of the world must unite.”

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog [1].

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

2. Lazy dogs

2.1 Lazy dogs and foxes

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog [2]. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Figure 1. Reaction time of lazy dogs

2.2 Lazy dogs and the colour brown

Table 1. Differences in fox quickness

Foxes / Dogs
Foxes / 22 / 4
Dogs / 32 / 14

3. Quick foxes

3.1 Quick foxes and lazy dogs

3.2 Quick foxes and jumping

4. Concluding remarks

Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the participation of the quick brown fox and the lazy dog in this research.

Notes

1 Others, notably Nash (1988), maintain that the fox never did jump over the lazy dog, pointing out that laziness is a human construction attributed to, rather than inherent in, dogs. This line of argument is, however, open to the objection that the whole concept of ‘dog’ is a human construction.

2 See Fox and Hound (1995) for a rather convoluted treatment of this argument.

References

Fox, S.R. and Hound, M. (1995) The Development of a Cunning Design Tool, Design Studies, 28, pp 1499-1506.

Labrador, G. (1973) Design of Intelligent Objects for the Blind, Wiley, New York.

Nash, C. A. (1988) Integration of Animal Transport: An Economic Assessment in Springer, J. S. and Charles, N. P. (eds.) Bus Deregulation and Privatization: An International Perspective, pp 17-46, Wiley, New York.

Woof, R. A. (1989) Building and Testing a Causal Model Animal Signaling, in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information Systems Boston, MA, pp 173-184.