Some of this and some of that
Today, I am going to impart some bits and pieces I picked up along the way this week. First of all, I found out that my Daddy speaks French, but not very well. You see, for most of this week, the computer was acting up big time and Daddy was getting madder by the minute. After awhile, he started saying things in a language I never heard before and then he would follow that by saying: “Pardon my French”, so that’s what French sounds like.
Here is a little something I picked up reading about the stock market in the WSJ:
Helium is still rising, while Scott Tissue reached a new bottom today. Pampers remained unchanged, as Coca Cola fizzled and went flat. Paper was stationary as pencils lost a few points. GE’s Fluorescent lights dimmed during light trading, but Ginsu Knives were up sharply. Otis Elevators rose swiftly as escalators continued a slow decline. In clothing, skirts inched higher while there was a sharp drop in pants.
Who says the Stock Market is hard to understand? The following is news out of the European Union:
European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the official and preferred language for all European Union communications, rather than German which was considered as a strong possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government agreed that the English spelling of many words had room for improvement and therefore agreed to a five-year plan instituted in phases for changes that will become known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
Under the agreement, during the first year, “S” will be used instead of the soft “C”. Sertainly, all sivil servants will reseive this news with joy. Also, the hard “C” will be replaced by “K”. Not only will this klear up any konfusion, but typewriters and komputer key boards
An EU spokeswoman said that there will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “Ph” is replased by “F”. This will make words like fotograf 20 per sent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling
Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent “E’s” in the languag is disgrasful, and they wil go.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “Th” by “Z” and “W” by “V” During ze fifz year, 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 evrivon vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
Vel, al of this knoledge has taxed my litle brain, so I think I vil se if I
See ya all next week, Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.
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