Yeah, or (my first thought) Boris Badenov in "Rocky and Bullwinkle".  To all
the Canadians in the list:  Thanks for Rocky & Bullwinkle!  Nice to know
that our northern neighbors had a sense of humor when their "neighbour" to
the south was contemplating "pushing the button", eh?

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathleen Salkin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 11:48 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: FW: EuroEnglish or isit German


And I can hear the villian saying, in the manner of "The Perils of Pauline,"
-- "Curses, foiled  again!" <sneer>  when they don't take over the world.

Kat

"St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Hey guys!  A colleague sent this.  Thought it was good for a chuckle =
(Deri,
you might vant to tak ze speshal not ):

-----Original Message-----
From: Randall, Ellen=20
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 11:24 AM
To: Cleveland, Kyle E.
Subject: FW: EuroEnglish or is it German


Kyle,  I sent this to John Minnich this a.m.  Since he forwarded it to =
Tim
and Joe, I thought you too might enjoy it.  Ellen


 ----

The European Commission has  just announced an agreement whereby
English=A0will=A0be the official  language of the EU rather than =
German, which
was the other=A0=A0possibility.
As part of the negotiations,  Her Majesty's government conceded
that=A0English=A0spelling had some room for improvement and has  =
accepted a
5-year=A0phase-in=A0plan that would be known as  "EuroEnglish."

In the first year, "s"  will=A0replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this =
will
make the sivil servants  jump=A0with=A0joy. The hard "c" will be =
dropped in
favor of the  "k:" This should klear=A0up=A0konfusion and keyboards kan =
have
one  less letter.=A0=A0There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the =
sekond
year, when the=A0troublesome "ph" will be replased with the "f." This =
will
make words=A0like=A0"fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik  akseptanse of the new=A0spelling kan be =
expekted to
reach the stage where  more komplikated=A0changes=A0are =
possible.=A0Governments
will enkourage  the removal of double letters, which have=A0=A0always
ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the =
horible=A0mes
of=A0=A0the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful and  they should =
go
away.

By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
"th"=A0with=A0"z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze  unesesary =
"o" kan
be dropd=A0from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes  vud of kors =
be
aplid to=A0ozer=A0kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be
no=A0mor=A0=A0trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it  ezi tu =
understand ech
ozer.
ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!!!! And zen ve vil take over ze vorld!!!!