Kudos to Damon for posting this joke @ the forums I frequent. Thought I'd share it cos I found it hilarious!

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has approved a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

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 favour of "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 "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 enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

Kudos to Johnny for sharing this site. Actually, I have not even installed the software associated with it but I have "reserved" my virtual identity there. LOL. Anyway, let me introduce myself to you… I am… Imogen Bing. Lovely to meet you. LMAO.

You can register for free and it's up to you whether or not you want to subscribe to their service; it's something like, The Sims 2 or an MMORPG game but the "gameplay" is more like "real-life". Iono, if you're interested, please use me, Imogen Bing, as your friend referral. ROFL. Here's the Imogen Bing link you can use to register for free: Second Life (there's a field that asks who referred you to SL).

See you at the virtual flipside! (Oh yah, let me know your name so that I can add you as a friend after you have registered!)

Hearty props to the publishers (or distributors) of the Nintendo Power magazine for sending me my first free issue… in fifteen copies!

Fifteen (15) copies of Nintendo Power April 2007/v214 issue. Hehehe. Pics below for posterity and send me an email if you want to get one of these — lol, I don't know what to do with the remaining fourteen.

I checked to make sure the other 14 copies weren't addressed to anyone else; they aren't and it was delivered to me all taped together! Thank you Nintendo Power. You're so nice.