If you are familiar with layout and design, either in print or the digital variety, then the following paragraph will need no introduction. Others may have come across similar paragraphs on websites which are 'under construction', or on those rather sad sites which were never completed and have been left as forlorn relics of good intentions.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisici elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
It looks like Latin, although in fact it's gibberish. It's used by designers as a place-holder, an indicator of what a block of text will look like big-picture-wise. If you want the infra inferius infimus (that's Latin for 'low down', according to InterTran) then where else would you expect me to point you than the Wikipedia article.
Recognise this moth... er ... geezer?
Yes, it's that rather nice chap, Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), famous for several unforgettable scenes in Pulp Fiction, including the one below in which my favourite part is when he says to Brett, just after he shoots the guy on the couch: "I'm sorry, did I break your concentration? I didn't mean to do that. Please, continue, you were saying something about best intentions. What's the matter? Oh, you were finished! Well, allow me to retort. What does Marsellus Wallace look like?"
It always cracks me up every time I hear him say, "Well, allow me to retort."
(NSFW)
No place-holders in that. Which raises the question why Paul Maloney, who says of himself, "I'm a Freelance Web Designer & Front End Developer and I make AWESOME Websites", was prompted to create the Samuel L. Ipsum alternative Lorem Ipsum generator. Perhaps he just has a similar sense of humour to mine. But before you click the link below, be warned, it's no more safe for work than the video clip...
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