[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think his letter would do a great page with a countdown clock to Y0K. Any comments on the property rights? Carlos ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Lee Brisco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 1999 7:09 PM Subject: WC:>: Humor: Y0K update >I don't usually send jokes to lists, but I think many will appreciate this >one :>) > > >================================================================ >Translated from a Latin scroll dated 2BC > >Dear Cassius: > >Are you still working on the Y0K problem? This 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 downwards forever, now we have to start thinking upwards. 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 turned nasty. > >We called in Consultus, but he simply said that continuing downwards using >minus BC won't work and as usual charged a fortune for doing nothing >useful. Surely we will not have to throw out all our hardware and start >again? Macrohard will make yet another fortune out of this I suppose. > >The money lenders are paranoid of course! They have been told that all >usury rates will invert and they will have to pay their clients to take out >loans. Its an ill wind ...... > >As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an hourglass flowing upwards. >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. > >I have heard that there are plans to stable all horses at midnight at the >turn of the year as there are fears that they will stop and try to run >backwards, causing immense damage to chariots and possible loss of life. > >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. I will send >you a parchment via Mercury Messenger if anything further develops. > >Plutonius >____________________________________________________________________ >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > Join The NEW Web Consultants Association FORUMS and CHAT: > Register Today at: http://just4u.com/forums/ >Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants > Give the Gift of Life This Year... > Just4U Stop Smoking Support forum - helping smokers for > over three years-tell a friend: http://just4u.com/forums/ > To get 500 Banner Ads for FREE > go to http://www.linkbuddies.com/start.go?id=111261 >--------------------------------------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The NEW Web Consultants Association FORUMS and CHAT: Register Today at: http://just4u.com/forums/ Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants Give the Gift of Life This Year... Just4U Stop Smoking Support forum - helping smokers for over three years-tell a friend: http://just4u.com/forums/ To get 500 Banner Ads for FREE go to http://www.linkbuddies.com/start.go?id=111261 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
