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The 2,000-year-old-problem
(By Steve Frank--Chicago Tribune--12/7/99)
To: Cassius
From: Plutonius
Date: Dec. 7, 1 B.C.
Are you still working on the Y0K problem? This change from B.C. to A.D.
is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't much time left. I don't
know how people will cope with working the wrong way around.
Having been working happily downward forever, now we have to start
thinking upward. You would think that someone would have thought of it
earlier and not left it to us to sort it all out at this last minute. I
spoke to Caesar the other evening. He was livid that Julius hadn't
done something about it when he was sorting out the calendar. He said
he could see why Brutus turned nasty. We called in the consulting
astrologers, but they simply said that continuing downward using minus
B.C.won't work. As usual, the consultants charged a fortune for doing
nothing useful.
As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an hourglass flowing
upward. We have heard that there are three wise men in the East who
have been working on the problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive
until it's all over. Some say the world will cease to exist at the
moment of transition.
Anyway, we are still continuing to work on this blasted Y0K problem, and
I willl send ou a parchment if anything further develops.
Yours,
Plutonius
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(Steve Frank is an attorney in Washington D.C.)
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