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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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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