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| | | (...) of (...) first (...) It's not that I care so much either. I believe that the year 2000 is a big deal, and worth celebrating. The thing that bothers me is that folks I respect and expect more of are making such a simple mistake. I don't read (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: CLSOTW - Thanks —Steven Vore
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| | | | (...) Amen! (or Right On! or Exactly!, whichever floats your pirate ship.) It wouldn't be so bad if there weren't *so* many people (well over 90% by my informal reconing, including almost all of the news media - did you see Peter Jennings' reaction (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: CLSOTW - Thanks —Christopher Lannan
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| | | | (...) I didn't see it- a brief explanation please? Chris (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: CLSOTW - Thanks —Steven Vore
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| | | | (...) 2MI? 2M1? One or the other - basically maintining that "the big event" isn't really going to happen until 2001 (MMI in Roman Numbers). ABC's lovely anchor looked at him like he had two heads and three arms, then pointed at the hoards filling (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Millenium Fool's Day! —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | (...) For the anal-retentive amongst us, there is no year 0, therefore the last year of the 20th century (big clue: 20 x 100) is 2000, which means the start of the third millennium A.D. (it's an abitrary start date, never mind it isn't really the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Millenium Fool's Day! —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) Or to say it another way, we count the year we're IN, not the year we've finished. It's different from the way we count people's birthdays, for example. I just turned 25, which means I'm in my 26th year. And the years just "turned" 1999, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: CLSOTW - Thanks —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) I thought that was Al Franken, or did I miss something and Al came in wearing a shirt, in order to make fun of the first guy (who I did not see)?? (...) Na... go ahead. (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: CLSOTW - Thanks —Steven Vore
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| | | | (...) yea, I think so too (though it was a *long* day... :-) -S (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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