Bush hid the facts
In Windows XP, open Notepad and type:
Bush hid the facts
Save the file and close Notepad. Reopen the saved file and see what you see.
He did it again!
Ok - that’s just weird.
How many times did you do it Craig?
I did and thought I was stupid for trying now I want to know why it works??
lmao
From Hoax-slayer and Wiki
Some of the more wide-eyed conspiracy theorists postulate that this result is a form of political commentary directed against US President Bush and was knowingly and deliberately programmed into Notepad by Microsoft.
Alas, the truth is far less compelling. It appears that a lot of other character strings in the pattern 4 letters, 3 letters, 3 letters and 5 letters will give the same result. For example, the phrase “Bill fed the goats” also displays the garbled text as shown below:
Bill fed the goats before closing Bill fed the goats after re-opening
In fact, even a line of text such as “hhhh hhh hhh hhhhh” will elicit the same results.
Since I first published this article, a few readers have pointed out that some character strings that fit the “4,3,3,5” pattern do not generate the error. For example, the phrase “Bush hid the truth” is displayed normally. However, conspiracy theorists should not take this as aiding their argument. “Fred led the brats”, “brad ate the trees” and other strings also escape the error.
Thus, any hint of political conspiracy fades into oblivion and is replaced by a rather mundane programming bug. It seems probable that a certain combination and/or frequency of letters in the character string cause Notepad to misinterpret the encoding of the file when it is re-opened. If the file is originally saved as “Unicode” rather than “ANSI” the text displays correctly. Older versions of Notepad such as those that came with Windows 95, 98 or ME do not include Unicode support so the error does not occur.
So, nothing weird here at all…except perhaps for the fact that someone, somewhere had nothing better to do than turn a simple software glitch into another lame conspiracy theory
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Bush hid the facts (sometimes also This app can break) is the common name for a bug present in the charset detection of all versions of Microsoft Notepad in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, which causes a file of text encoded in Windows-1252 or similar encoding to be interpreted as if it was UTF-16, resulting in mojibake.
While “Bush hid the facts” is the sentence that is most commonly presented on the Internet, it does not exclusively occur with that phrase. The bug can be triggered by many sentences with alphabetic characters and spaces in a particular order (4-space-3-space-3-space-5), as well as other combinations that can be parsed into valid (if nonsensical) Chinese characters in Unicode.
The bug occurs when such a string is entered into Notepad (with no other characters) and then saved as a text file. Upon reloading the file into Notepad, the text will be replaced with nine Chinese characters, or squares if the language pack has not been installed. To retrieve the original text, bring up the “Open a file” dialog box, select the file, select “ANSI” in the “Encoding” list box, and click Open.
Discovery
The bug appeared for the first time in Windows 2000 but was not discovered until early 2004[1] and has since risen in popularity on the Internet.[citation needed]
Clearing the content by selecting, cutting and then repasting the text does not prevent reproduction as long as it is carefully done.
Notepad misinterprets the encoding of the file when it is re-opened. If the file is originally saved as “Unicode” rather than “ANSI” the text displays correctly.
Older versions of Notepad such as those that came with Windows 95, 98 or ME do not include Unicode support so the error does not occur.
Notepad2 (by Florian Balmer) also exhibits this behaviour.
It appears that in Windows 2000/XP and Notepad2, these use the Windows API call “IsTextUnicode”[2] which occasionally returns the incorrect results with the word length combinations mentioned above.
Heh, I thought it was BS and didn’t even do it…pretty nifty, I can’t believe I’ve never run across that glitch before as I use notepad for ummm notes all the time.
I tried a few different combos and they don’t always work
Make Ian eat worms - no
Ian hid the money - no
How do you open Notepad?
Yous guys got way too much time on yer hands.
But if you like conspiracy theories, why don’t you start searching on “The Bilderbergs”. A very closed society. See what they are,. Who they are, who attends each years meeting. And what the heck is their agenda?
Bilderbergs Rule the Wurld.
Ours and other countrie’s Politcal parties are just their tools.
Money Rules!!!
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A very closed society. See what they are,. Who they are, who attends each years meeting. And what the heck is their agenda?[/quote]
It’s just a bunch of people getting together for a little Texas Hold-em …
nothing to see here … move it along … 
Nope. They are a colaboration of old money, new money, politicos, think tankers, corporate leaders, military, media and anyone else with influence,and power who can advance their agenda. subdue the world with the global economy to fill their coffers. Think of them as the worlds biggest, most influential lobbyist group. The men behind the curtain in the castle of Oz. Our two parties are Just the image projected on the screne surrounded by the smoke and thunder to awe the masses.
[quote=“a1amap, post:8, topic:1381”]
I tried a few different combos and they don’t always work
Make Ian eat worms - no
Ian hid the money - no[/quote]
Hey did you type make Ian dress as a pirate, oh wait you must of cause that already happened