Some one in this list sent the message below. I'd like to say
that my original note was supposed to be a light remark, almost like
a joke (for those who don't know or didn't notice, that's what the
"emoticon" :-) at the end means). I apologize if it sounded some
other way, or if it's an old "tiresome", "sixty-time heard" remark.
Now... what is *your* excuse to be pedant ?
Happy Holidays for those in 1999 BCE, and Merry Christmas for those
in MCMXCIX BC. :-) (you see? this is a joke)
gnd
PS - Gloria, a special apology to you, if I sounded serious before.
PS1 - People celebrate 100,000 mile reading on the odometers because
they start counting from 0 (zero), rather than from 'I' (one)
PS2 - "There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those
who can not".
(by the way, the last two PS's were jokes too) :-)
>Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:34:26 -0500
>Subject: Re: [rtl] From Barcelona...
>
>To make a perfectly pedantic point (of which I consider your note to be a
>splendid example), not everybody uses the terms "AD" and "BC" since; though
>almost all people in the world use the Gregorian calendar, most of those
>people are not, in fact, Christian. The preferred term is "CE" for "Common
>Era" and "BCE" for "Before the Common Era".
>
>And I'm quite sure *everybody* on the list has heard every point you made
>at least sixty times in the last ten years, and, like me, find it quite
>tiresome. Folks are gonna celebrate the turnover from 1999 to 2000 the same
>way they make special note when their odometers flip over from 99,999 to
>100,000 miles. Enough, already, just grab some champagne.
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