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'Round and round' On My High Horse Copyright 2004 by David Steinlicht www.allsmall.net steinlicht@pobox.com In Europe, to show what country a car is from they use a white oval with a letter or tow in the middle in black type. Simple. Functional as all get-out. E Spain N Norway CH Switzerland D Germany A Austria F France I Italy GB England DK Denmark The Euroval is clean. It's sophisticated. It's to the point. No wasted energy. The Euroval's problem: There's only room for a few letters. NL Holland S Sweden H Hungary My first sighting of a wannabe Euroval was on the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' show. It's for the jam-band Worldwide Panic. WP With two or three letters maximum to make a statement, often the statement made is, 'Huh?' WWW World wide web? MV My vehicle? CAO Goodbye? Some Eurovals spell out their meaning in tiny letters under the main message. To be in the know, you only have to squint. JH Jackson Hole BSA Boy Scouts of America HI Hawaiian Industries Other Eurovals embrace obscurity. No hints. They are in code. The meaning is known only to a few. It's anti-communication. V99 ? CC ? KW ? Like, what coud this faux Euroval possibly mean? W'04 We may never know. End

June 6, 2004

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