thank you Mopsicle ...

       ...mikey{:-)

Mopsicle's owner graciously turned down my request for musings as to why "they do what they do". so the following is something humorous from mopsy's site. enjoy!
gone from cyberspace, noticed it during July 1999. their old address : http://www.generation.net/~rburriel/mopsicle/

New EC Regulations
by ??? (author unknown)
 
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English
will be the official language of the EU rather than German, which was the
other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government
conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has
accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish."
 
Some highlights:
 
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c"... Sertainly, this will
make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in
favor of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 
one less letter.
 
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with the "f". This will make words like
"fotograf" 20% shorter.
 
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments
will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a
deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the
silent "e"'s in the language is disgraceful, and they should go away.
 
By the 4th yar, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
"z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yar, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd
from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to
ozer kombinations of leters.
 
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no
mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
 
ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!

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