-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: Ric Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: SkeptiChat list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >-----Original Message----- >From: Che Monro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Ave Pluto, > >Thanks for your tablet dated III December, sorry it's taken me so long to >get back to you - what with all these orgies, chariot races, games and >slave revolts going on, it's difficult for a man to keep his attention from >roman'... > >By Jupiter tho, this millennia changeover thingy is causing quite a stink, >isn't it? In Judea they're predicting bloody revolts, new stars in the >heavens, the appearance of a messiah - all the usual religious hysteria - >makes you glad to be a pagan, don't it? > >Personally I think you've underestimated the numerical complexity of it all >tho, Pluto old boy. 'Course maths never was your strong suit, was it - I >remember when we were at the gymnasium together with old Fatty... Ah, but I >mustn't digress... > >What worries me is that our Roman number system has no way of writing >nothing! How are we even going to represent the gods cursed thing? We can't >even use X - that means ten! Think about it, how will the barbarians >respond to an imperial proclamation like this? > >In the year nothing, word came down from Lord Caesar Augustus that all the >world should be taxed... > >It's laughable! > >Mark my words, we've got ourselves into a bind on this one - it'll all end >in tears. Personally I think we should move the seat of empire to >Alexandria. The Egyptians have been measuring time for over VI thousand >years, and they don't show any signs of stopping anytime soon? But do they >listen to me? Oh no! Typical! > >Well, I must go now. I just bought a new Persian slave girl, and the little >thing is unbelievably saucy. You wouldn't imagine some of the tricks these >barbarians... Ah, but I digress again. > >NIL ILLEGITIMATI CARBORUNDORUM, Dear boy, > >Cas > > > >At 11:06 AM 15/1/99 -0700, ANNETTE LYNN SPENCE wrote: >> >>> SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE >>> >>>While browsing through material in the recesses of the Roman >>>Section of the British Museum, a researcher recently came across >>>a tattered bit of parchment. After some effort he translated it >>>and found it was a letter from a man called Plutonius with the >>>title of "magister factorium," or keeper of the calendar, to one >>>Cassius. It was dated, strangely enough, 2 BC, December 3 -- >>>about 2,000 years ago. The text of the message follows: >>> >>>Dear Cassius: Are you still working on the Y zero K problem? The >>>change from BC to AD 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 the 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 had turned nasty. We >>>called in the consulting astrologers, but they simply said that >>>continuing downwards using minus BC 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. >>> >>>We're continuing to work on the Y zero K problem and I'll send >>>you a parchment if anything develops. 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