On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:33:08 PDT, Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>  said:
> 
> The European Commission has just announced an
> agreement whereby English will be the official
> language of the European nation rather than German,
> which was the other possibility.

Fortunately, Mark Twain wrote this before the current silliness with copyright
lifetimes took hold in the US... ;)