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A little news item you may not be aware of…
The European Commission 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”.
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 less letters.
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 third 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 year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaiining “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!!
Ve haf also decided zat driving vil be changed to ze oposit sid of ze road. Ze first year ve vil change over ze truks and buses

Thanks to Bonkura for this giggle.

These guys are dorks but it sure looks like a fun thing to do to someone you don’t like so much: Video of the test.

OMG! This whacko built an 8500 calorie manwich! It makes my chest tighten just thinking about it.

Standups of Star Trek, Pamela Anderson, WWF, Pokemon, Elvis Presley, Scooby Doo, Marilyn Monroe, Pamela Anderson, Xena, Bruce Lee, Cartoons, Austin Powers, custom, Elvis Presley & many more characters.

Look Carol. Now we can be like Steve Martin in The Lonely Guy and have a big party with all of our cardboard cut out pals. For sure we need to invite Fabio, Santa and Kiss. Maybe Marilyn and Xena should come too.

Thanks to Monkeeboy Ross for the link.

By way of hurricane.

Carol and I are going to a night of ComedyFest Vancouver this year. The night we’re going is hosted by none other than the Trailer Park Boys! I can’t wait to go. It’s going to be a gas! Julian, Ricky and Bubbles live!

Don’t forget about that cool Bubbles Soundboard…

Winners of Oprah car give-away must pay up to $7,000 tax – Sep. 22, 2004
Surprise! It’s a rip off!

In Da Cab by MC Yuri! “It’s my green card!”

The Strange Case of the Shocker