I have an embarrassing confession to make.
When I was just starting out as a web designer, a graphic designer sent me a layout to code up. I complimented him on the design, but suggested that the ungrammatical Latin text was a little pretentious, and it would be better to have text in English. It was an embarrassing moment to learn that this is called “Lorem ipsum” text—simple placeholder text in lieu of the proper content.
Oops. 
The origin of Lorem Ipsum
Somewhere around the 1500s, some Latin text from the ancient author Cicero was scrambled up to create some placeholder text. It has been used this way ever since! (To all those young people here, the 1500s is even older than your grand parents. Imagine that!)
###Variations on a theme
I guess people have started to get bored with poor old Lorem ipsum, as new—usually humorous—alternatives are springing up all over the place. Here are some that I’ve come across …
Zombie ipsum reversus ab viral inferno, nam rick grimes malum cerebro. De carne lumbering animata corpora quaeritis. Summus brains sit, morbo vel maleficia? De apocalypsi gorger omero undead survivor dictum mauris. Hi mindless mortuis soulless creaturas, imo evil stalking monstra adventus resi dentevil vultus comedat cerebella viventium.
Cupcake ipsum dolor. Sit amet powder sweet roll croissant sesame snaps chocolate bar cake caramels. Jelly beans pastry bonbon cake chocolate tart chocolate cake. Tiramisu soufflé muffin muffin wafer halvah. Topping pie chocolate cake pie caramels toffee fruitcake jujubes brownie. Soufflé donut cake. Cake wafer jelly beans jelly-o. Dragée wafer donut marzipan chocolate bar jelly-o croissant. Chocolate wafer sweet roll jelly-o soufflé lollipop caramels powder pastry. Jelly-o bear claw brownie lollipop lollipop. Oat cake jelly beans cotton candy chocolate cake candy. Apple pie gummi bears tart. Jelly beans biscuit tart. Tootsie roll pastry toffee.
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Bogan Ipsum (a bogan is a certain breed of low-class Australian)
You little ripper dob piece of piss he hasn’t got a bonzer. It’ll be dunny rat with trent from punchy pozzy. Gutful of maccas as cunning as a going off. Built like a quid to grab us a sheila. Built like a g’day how as stands out like clacker. Mad as a cream no worries come a aussie salute. Lets get some bikkie no worries lets get some icy pole. As dry as a yabber piece of piss freo. Come a pot when come a maccas.
Vanquish the impossible two ghostly white figures in coveralls and helmets are soflty dancing a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena worldlets permanence of the stars? From which we spring, tesseract across the centuries billions upon billions. A billion trillion radio telescope Sea of Tranquility network of wormholes! Permanence of the stars, astonishment. A very small stage in a vast cosmic arena citizens of distant epochs, light years rogue. Bits of moving fluff trillion, rogue bits of moving fluff emerged into consciousness laws of physics white dwarf science great turbulent clouds realm of the galaxies. As a patch of light star stuff harvesting star light Vangelis dispassionate extraterrestrial observer. Consciousness?
###SitePoint Ipsum?
Given that this is a big site for web designers and developers, surely we should have our own version of Lorem Ipsum? I propose that we each add a few lines of our own, so that we can create something of decent length. I’ll kick it off, then …
SitePoint ipsum dollars it admit, smith street good old collingwood forever, and downunder, well I never. Mark a bottle, mackie wix, dash of mayo ophelie nice. Flippa cow and learn a bull, bring a sprig of jasmine forum. Thanks dear fluff post seo, discourse buggy don’t you know.
Feel free to improve on this or add to it in the comments. 
And if you know of any other versions of Lorem ipsum, please post a link!
