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Greg Krohn ask at me.com
Sun Oct 5 02:29:05 EDT 2003 
"Ben Finney" <bignose-hates-spam at and-benfinney-does-too.id.au> wrote in
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> On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 21:58:54 -0400, Mel Wilson wrote:
> > You don't see a lot of Usenet postings from Poland or Hawai'i, do you?
> > That is why.  Had the last WTO round not failed, trade in vowels and
> > consonants between Poland and Hawai'i would have solved the problem,
> > to the immense profit of both.
>
> Rubbish.  The WTO proposal for vowel-trading would have enriched the
> first-world nations only, to the detriment of both.
>
> The WIPO would have ensured that, within ten years, all nations would
> need to license individual use of vowels, and the vowels would
> self-destruct if pronounced in a non-approved manner.
>
> -- 
>  \       "Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto |
>   `\    someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I |
> _o__)      have to laugh, because what is that thing?"  -- Jack Handey |
> Ben Finney <http://bignose.squidly.org/>

Sorry to intrude, but this thread reminded me of an old Onion article:

http://www.theonion.com/onion2816/vowels2816.html

greg
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