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Re: Line in the Sand
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Date: 
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:28:35 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, onyx wrote:

In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
Still discussing:
Maybe we can get this finalized before the end of the year.  Well, a guy can
dream, right? ;)

Steve

at first i misread that as:
Maybe we can get this finalized before the end of next year....

and thought to myself "wow, Steve's in a really cynical mood".. hehe.. guess
i'm just projecting my own cynicism...

I had originally written "before the end of this millenium", but I thought that
sounded too pessimistic.  And I didn't want to give anyone an opening for the
2000/2001 diatribe.

Steve
Personally, I just care when the odometer rolls over.



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  Re: Line in the Sand
 
(...) If the academics are right, it may have rolled over in 1993/94; so many problems are associated with just when we started counting, not to mention whether it's 2000 or 2001 years! best, LFB (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: Line in the Sand
 
(...) at first i misread that as: (...) and thought to myself "wow, Steve's in a really cynical mood".. hehe.. guess i'm just projecting my own cynicism... J (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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