I'm not feeling up to anything much today either (a cold on it's way, I think) but I'll send good vibes to you all!

And here's something to hopefully make you laugh

The rude parrot

A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a
bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of this bird's
mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and
tried to change the bird's attitude by constantly saying polite words,
playing soft music, and anything he could think of to set a good example.
Nothing worked. Finally, John got fed up and he yelled at the parrot.
And, the bird yelled back. John shook the parrot, and the bird
got angrier and ruder.

Finally, in a moment of desperation, John put the bird in the refrigerator
freezer. For a few minutes, John heard the bird squawk and kick and
scream...then suddenly there was quiet. Not a peep for over a minute.
Fearing that he'd hurt the bird, John quickly opened the door to the
freezer.
The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's outstretched arm and said,
"I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions.
I am truly sorry, and I will do everything to correct my poor behavior."
John was astonished at the parrot's change of attitude. As he was about
to ask the parrot what had made such a dramatic change in his behavior,
the parrot continued, "May I ask what the chicken did?"

..... and my favourite!

An interesting article highlighting British power over Germany.

The European Union have recently announced that finally an agreement hasbeen reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and as such has accepted a five year phased plan to implement what will become known as EuroEnglish .

In the first year , 's' will be used instead of the soft 'c'. Sertainly sivil servants will resieve this news with joy . Also the hard 'c' will be replased with 'k' . Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter .

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replased by 'f'. This will make words like 'fotograf' 20 per sent shorter .

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible, which have always been a deterent to akurate speling. 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 kore be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters .

After zis fifz year, 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 !

Sorry to any Germans who may be offended!