Standard Madness Susan Lennard


The Swiss thought up a standard,
The original and true.
The world then promptly followed
The exception ..... you know who.
The standard, in translation
Was acceptable to most
The exception ........ those darned English
Who were busy sipping toast.

The standard then was tested
In the year of 33
When the USA then promised
That the Swiss would lead the way.
The authoritative source,
Now having been proclaimed
The USA and Switzerland,
Joined forces in one name.

The international version
Lack of type set well behind,
As we all vowed resolution
So to follow but one mind.
Yet, as happen ...... chance would have it,
In the year of 59,
Those evil USAers
Went ahead and lost their minds!

They adopted staunch revisions
They ignored the heavenly word
They encouraged new deletions
They proclaimed to have the nerve.
They asserted independence,
They insulted mother earth
They're a good for nothing country
And how dare they say a word!

Still, the peace reclaimed the valley
As the Swiss done cooled their toes
The Americans, then braver,
Hardly said another word.
Yet beneath the stillness rumbled
As the years began to fade,
Each Country all the better
With a "type" that's heaven made.

Then, if history hadn't taught us,
It's the Swiss now up in arms!
It's 93 and ticking
And they're losing all their charms!
They're insisting on new changes,
A result of modern day.
Still, the gall of their assertions...
That all follow, just the same!

The Americans now fuming
With as little much to say,
But their vehemence toward changes,
With the FCI at bay.
How dare the Swiss revise it!
And how dare they have the nerve!
How dare they insult mother earth!
How dare they say a word!

But the truth be known to viewers
As we witness all the "hype"
"Who cares" who leads the circus
If we all maintain good "type"

The dog, and not a country
leave it's mark at future's door.
The country spits the polish
But the bitch whelps on the floor.