[at-l] Thoughts on the Year 2000..

[Paul A Magnanti <pmags@juno.com>]

First..for some odd reason the world did not go down in flames. And here
I was hoping the computers would go belly-up because it would sure be
nice to wipe out that VISA bill..:-)
(And this smart ass wonders.. what are people now going to do with their
ten year supplies of ammo, MREs, cans of beans, and Coleman fuel?)

  Ok, so the official MILLENIUM does not start until 2001... But what is
a millenium? A count of  1000. So people are celebrating the end of a
thousand year cycle..but not the one scientist types correctly call the
MILLENIUM. Let us just compromise and say that everyone is excited over
the end of the 1000's. And that is the truth. Mathematically and
emotionally. I am sure this same discussion will be had by people in 2999
as well. Ahem. 
(But, unless I pull a Walt Disney, I do not plan on being there).

   Look how far our favorite past time has come in the past 1000 years.
In 1000 AD, people wore leather boots to walk in the woods, wool was
popular, cotton was the fabric of choice in desert environments.
Mmm..maybe I will cease this line of thinking...

What do we call this new ten year cycle? The Zero's.. (Yes..jr.. in the
ZEROES we only had Goretex not this funky new thing called Saran Wrap++
...).. nah..too clumsy.....     Or do like the old timers.. the Oughts?
(Yes..in 20 ought 5..I had to walk uphill to school, BOTH WAYS, for five
miles, in SNOW).  Kinda classic sounding..but a bit of a mouthful.. of 
jes' the plain ole' 2000's?


Well enough rambling.. Just my round about way of telling everyone to
have a Happy Year 2000.

Mags

(and I had my dark beer, not Sammies, but Henry Weinharts...)



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