If you type at all, you’ve typed it, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” People with typewriters use it to test them and to quickly fill a page when one can’t think of something else. It’s less threatening to onlookers than “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” running down the page.
Joe Van Cleave made the panagram the subject of this week’s typing assignment.” We were encouraged to write about the dog, the fox, or whatever came up around this sentence. A story of the dog came to my mind.