Language X is essentially language Y under conditions Z

Has anybody come across these? I thought some of these were quite humorous.

http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/essential.html

JR

Thanks for those, I enjoyed reading them, some are quite amusing indeed!

My favorite, so far:

"English is essentially Hindi (cot, jungle, shampoo), with a heck of a lot of loanwords from Anglo-Saxon, French, and Latin."
--Sean B. Palmer

Yes, I actually ran onto them when one of my friends, who knows of my hobby for languages, told me that I said some pretty insulting things about Spanish. I of course, said he was crazy, so he sent me the link. It turns out that somewhere in the world, there is another Javier De La Rosa who likes languages and sarcasm. Who knew?