Those Nice Folks at the UN!
(Please note: this page is not accusing the UN of being behind One
World Government efforts, Black Helicopters, or cattle mutilations. Those
allegations are ridiculous. Oswald killed Kennedy (acting alone), and Reagan
really does have Alzheimer's. I swear. I haven't mentioned a thing to anybody.
October 17 will come and go with no noticeable change in the sperm counts of
North American men. There is no need to panic. All is as it should be. The Dow
Jones Index fluctuates as a result of free market forces and has nothing
to do with the subPentagon, which doesn't even exist at all. I don't know who
keeps claiming it does, but they really should knock it
off.)
So I'm doing some vanity searches on various
engines to get some idea of the amount of the www devoted to funneling adulation
towards me, and I'm searching using the word "Ffungo" to uniquely identify this
site & links to it when I stumble across a page
in German:
Die verschiedenen englischsprachigen Abkrzungen deuten die
Bandbreite der NRO im internationalen Geschft an. GONGO hei§t
Regierung organisierte nichtstaatliche Organisation, d.h. es besteht
eine direkte Verbindung zum Staatsapparat; hnlich verhlt es sich
mit einer GRINGO (NGO der Regierung Durchlauf angespornter); eine QUANGO ist eine
nichtstaatliche Quasiorganisation, was ebenso mit staatlicher
Finanzierung einhergeht, d.h. es handelt sich i.d.R. um eine ausgelagerte
Verwaltungseinheit; FFUNGO bedeutet fremde gefinanzierte nichtstaatliche
Organisation, wobei die auslndischen Gelder auch von Regierungen kommen
knnen. Es gibt auch die Abkrzungen SMANGOs, MINGOs und BINGOs (kleine,
mittlere und gro§e NRO)...
I don't speak any German, but it definitely sounded
sinister. There I was (in all caps, no less), along with various anti-American
slogans (GRINGO), suggestions of the corruption of senior citizens (BINGO) and
what were obviously Holy Names of Discordians I haven't even met yet (SMANGO,
GONGO, QUANGO, and MINGO). This smacked of some sort of foreign conspiracy
(although clearly not one of those One World Government
efforts, which don't even exist, and I think it's pretty irresponsible of people
to just go around casually implying that they do, because they really don't, and
mentioning that they do isn't a good idea even though it won't cause you to have
sudden troubles with local law- enforcement officials).
Although "The Beatus Ffungo Smango Gongo Quango Mingo" has sort of a ring
to it....
So anyway, I fed the thing through BabelFish,
Alta Vista's reasonably groovy translation program, and came up with
this:
The different English-language abbreviations suggest the bandwidth of
the NRO in the international business. GONGO is called government
organized non governmental organization, i.e. there is a direct
connection to the state apparatus; similarly it behaves with a GRINGO
(run/inspired NGO government); a QUANGO is one quasi non governmental
organization, which accompanies likewise with national financing, i.e.
it concerns itself i.d.R. around a stored externally administrative unit;
FFUNGO means foreign funded non governmental organization, whereby the
foreign funds can come also from governments. There are also the
abbreviations to SMANGOs, MINGOs and BINGOs (small, middle and large NRO)...
BabelFish is famous for its broken-english translations,
but it seems to indicate that the UN has used my name for a non-governmental
organization funded by foreign governments. That's all. This message doesn't
refer to me specifically or Discordians in general. I fully and completely
believe this and do not think that BabelFish is in on any
sort of cover-up, because there wouldn't be one in the first
place.
If you want to, though, you can send some
e-mail to a guy in Argentina (is ".ar" Argentina?) named Fernando Fungo whose
e-mail address is mailto:%20ffungo@exa.unrc.edu.ar.
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