What is Lorem Ipsum?

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

 

think you and your friend have found the last game in town. where it hurts, their wallets. It’s bold. You gonna count me in?

There you are! There is nothing to fear but fear itseIf!

Do I really look like a guy with a plan?

You can swapnot sleeping in a penthouse… for not sleeping in a mansion. Whenever you stitch yourself up, you do make a bloody mess.

It doesn’t matter who we are. What matters is our plan.

Accomplice? I’m gonna tell them the whole thing was your idea.

I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne… as a man. I’m flesh and blood. I can be ignored, destroyed. But as a symbol, I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.

It will be extremely painful… for you

What if, before she died, she wrote a letter saying she chose Harvey Dent over you? And what if, to spare you pain, I burnt that letter?

I thought this might be a good opportunity for… improving the foundations.

I speak for the rest of the board and Mr Wayne, in expressing our own excitement.

I give a damn because a good man once made me responsible for what was most precious to him in the whole world.

You’re taller than you look in the tabIoids, Mr. Wayne.

You see, I’m a guy of simple taste. I enjoy dynamite and gunpowder and gasoline.

 

Why do we use it?

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

think you and your friend have found the last game in town. where it hurts, their wallets. It’s bold. You gonna count me in?

There you are! There is nothing to fear but fear itseIf!

Do I really look like a guy with a plan?

You can swapnot sleeping in a penthouse… for not sleeping in a mansion. Whenever you stitch yourself up, you do make a bloody mess.

It doesn’t matter who we are. What matters is our plan.

Accomplice? I’m gonna tell them the whole thing was your idea.

I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne… as a man. I’m flesh and blood. I can be ignored, destroyed. But as a symbol, I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.

It will be extremely painful… for you

What if, before she died, she wrote a letter saying she chose Harvey Dent over you? And what if, to spare you pain, I burnt that letter?

I thought this might be a good opportunity for… improving the foundations.

I speak for the rest of the board and Mr Wayne, in expressing our own excitement.

I give a damn because a good man once made me responsible for what was most precious to him in the whole world.

You’re taller than you look in the tabIoids, Mr. Wayne.

You see, I’m a guy of simple taste. I enjoy dynamite and gunpowder and gasoline.

Where does it come from?

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.

Where can I get some?

There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don’t look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn’t anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.