National Spelling Bee. Chanting "Enuf is enuf. Enough is too much." protesters surrounded the Hyatt Hotel in Washington D.C. to display their anger at the dual whammy of atmospheric degradation and mental illness caused by spelling rules. Many of the protesters are prominent scientists, who are tired of typing through when thru would do, not to mention the noxious gasses produced by longer syllables. Dr. Ralph Belemy, Stanford Pediatric Psychiatrist, angrily said that there was convincing empirical data that u instead of you, and gr8 instead of great would lessen mental illness in grade school kids by seventeen percent.
A minority of more violent spelling protesters threw rotten fruit, sticky labeled 'froot', at the entrance to the Hyatt. One rotten banana hit spelling bee judge Shawn Connory, no relation to Sean Connery, on the arm soiling his shirt. Ironically the hole in the ozone was directly affected (or is it effected) by the froot throwing.
Californians sighted that waste of paper caused a measurable percentage of fog in Los Angeles. And as example spelling slow as slow instead of slo wasted one letter each time it is printed.
Meanwhile there was non-productive discontent in the ranks of protestors that harkened back to 1776. Numerous arguments, mostly by academics, were voiced in favor of differing acceptable spellings; arse verses ass, color verses colour, cheque verses check, gray verses grey, and so on.
The more sane protestors suggested that enuf was enuf, and that the solution to pollution is one spelling per word.
