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by smokel 16 days ago
There's an interesting easter egg in semantic.cpp, line 77:

  if (CheckWord(words, "OXio")) {
Apparently, if your text contains the word "OXio", it triggers the following riddle: What's round on the ends and hi in the middle?
3 comments

Back when eastereggs were semi-allowed in MS software. Shame it is being discouraged or disallowed.

Totally understand it from a security and maintenance perspective, but things were more fun back then.

Guessing the X was to disable it without disabling it.
Awesome find. :)