The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

[matt1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog

[duck]

If you have downloaded a font in the last ten years you probably have seen this.

[jparise]

I remember when I first learned about this sentence. I was in my grammar school's computer lab playing a typing tutor game (probably from MECC), and it had me type this phrase repeatedly. After the first dozen times, I asked the computer teacher what was up.

[vault_]

I think more interesting than this article are the self-enumerating pangrams described in the one linked to it.

[techiferous → vault_]

Yes. They're like quines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram#Self-enumerating_pangra...

[danramteke]

This is another of those things that my dad taught me while growing up.