Problems With Spelling And Interbeing Relations, The

Beings Have Problems Spelling With Each Other

by Vincent Joseph Shuta (shutavj@scranton.com)
written 14 Oct 1992

This article is classified "Fictional"


It is, of course, well known that a person's ability to spell can
affect their placement in life.  A misspelling on an application,
resume, or manuscript can have -- relatively speaking -- devastating
effects, and can alter the position one ends up with.  For example,
a professor of enigmatic jokes at the University of Maximegalon made
a grievous error by using the letter 'e' in place of the letter '<&*' 
in the word 'Flath<&*' (an odd word used only in enigmatic jokes) in
his triple doctoral thesis.  He was approached with the error, and 
was about to be dismissed from his post, when in an enigmatic
inspiration, he saved his position by coining the only known 
spelling-related enigmatic phrase:  "Well, if I could spell, I
wouldn't be here!"

This phrase is actually more literally true of the Gelderion people 
of Vanbeetroot VII.  During the reign of their leader, King Grenbar 
the Confused, a rather complicated and extremely expensive satellite 
was placed in orbit over the planet.  This satellite could sense 
anyone spelling anything correctly in public, or correcting another's
spelling, and changed this person's position by several thousand light
years (The King was apparently annoyed at the number of people who 
corrected his spelling, which was well known to be atrocious).  
  
As a result, a large percentage of the population was sent hurling 
though space, and the economy was devastated; both from the lack of 
people in the work force, and from the enormous debt created by the 
satellite.  

When finally a team of engineers was sent to shut down the satellite, 
they found that all the original manuals were unreadable due to numerous
misspellings, and all the original blueprints were soaked in
Vanbeetroot ale (a curious mixture produced on Vanbeetroot V, where
the natives dealt with people who could spell by getting them extra-
ordinarily drunk).  And thus began the rather expensive endeavor of
retrieving the satellite and directly analyzing it.  The engineers then 
found that the satellite was simply a natural annoyance magnifier, 
which took the energy produced by annoyance, magnified it several 
trillion times and focused it on the source of the annoyance -- with a 
gain control to send the person someplace safe.  The engineers then
disconnected the gain control, and got very annoyed with the device --
which promptly melted itself.  
  
This is why 90% of all dictionaries sold throughout the galaxy come 
with a short tutorial on advanced circuit analysis.

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