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Re: CLSOTW - Thanks
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 3 Jan 2000 20:25:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Steven Vore writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Christopher Lannan writes:
> > In lugnet.pirates, Dave Schuler writes:
> > > I think everyone here knows this, in much the same way that April 30 does
> > > not equal May 1. However, there's no point in complaining about it, because
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> > counting to ten. The other thing that bothers me about it is when I say that
> > the new millenium starts in 2001, then all of a sudden I'm the crackpot, and
> > all the other million folks in error are "right." Can you say "baaah"?
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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 to the guy with the 2MI shirt on NYE?) who are maintaining
> that April 30 *does* equal May 1 and that we're off our collective rockers for
> thinking otherwise (and trying to correct the calendarally-impared :-)
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> -Steven
I didn't see it- a brief explanation please?
Chris
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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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| (...) 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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