Obviously blaming Bush was a joke. If any of you took my original post seriously, you need to get your heads examined.
It happens with most (but not all) files that have a 4 letter words, two 3 letter words, and a 5 letter word. xxxx xxx xxx xxxxx.
Here are some examples:
this app can break
dead jfk gun shots
Mary had old lambs
And it doesn't happen with the following:
Mary had new lambs
This app can break
And apparently, some other combinations also work:
aaaa aaa aaa aaa
aa aaa aaa
And the best guess I've seen about the cause:
_If_ you save a file that works from its "borked looking" state in
Notepad, you'll get a hint of what may be going on -- the file is
prepended with the 0xFF 0xFE Unicode marker. My guess -- this
weirdness is due to some peculiar, non-standard attempt to detect non-
flagged Unicode encoding, or some unusual/non-standard form of Unicode
encoding.
