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To: lurqer who wrote (32708)	3/18/2004 9:11:33 AM
From: altair19	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104197

Wharfy, <Don't tell Altie, but we had another unnoticed earthquake today > See...I told ya...you and your tomato plants are gonna end up as water front property. Hey, wait a minute...how cool would that be? Altair19@seismicdreams.com

To: lurqer who wrote (32708)	3/18/2004 11:17:21 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 104197

My little weather bug, which reports the temp just north of Ukiah, also showed 95. I caught the SF news last night, and this is the warmest March on record; SF is running about 4 degrees above average. I've got clouds moving thru, tho. WR

To: lurqer who wrote (32708)	3/19/2004 12:36:11 PM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104197

lurq, fuzzy, rambler ... all you california guys - i give you .... The Great State of California The new California Governor has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the state, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations., The Terminator's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Austro-English" (or, perhaps even better, "Austrionics"). 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 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 third 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, peopl 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 sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or dificultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand each oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. If zis mad yu smil, pleas pas it on to oza pepl.