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(...) Well, this administration doesn't see themselves as a branch so much as the trunk of the tree. -Tom McD. when replying, Gore-Spamcake 2000! The San Francisco Bay Area Users Group (URL) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) TRVTH isn't the job of the executive branch. :) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Odd, how "TRVTH" never made it to the White House mansion. -Tom McD. when replying, due to a small Y2K glitch, instead of soy filler, various amounts of spamcake were leaked into an unnamed pork processing plant production chain in Atlanta. (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I still can't believe the U.S. Constitution says "Congrefs" all over it. Not to mention "TRVTH" all over all the justice buildings. --Todd ;-) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Darn fingers always get in the way when touched-typing. --Todd (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Indeed it does. Second paragraph: " Take a good, close look at yourself, Jasper. What you'll probably find is that you're ornery. He maintains a cozy relationship with wild brown-nosing porn stars. " So, Larry.. why was it my name in (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <Snip Nena><I thought they only did that to males? -- Shut up, Pinky.> (...) To tell you the truth, I copied them off a random web page this time. I didn't have the .mp3 handy, or I'd have typed it in. (...) Nah, my second language is English, (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I don't think that's at issue. The thing is, we don't count what year we've completed, we count what year we're IN. (AD = "in the year of our Lord".) So we're currently IN the 2000th year; therefore, we've not finished the current millennium (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) See: (URL) my rebuttal of the "well the dating system is wrong, arbitrary, etc" idea. (...) No, you can't. If we take as a given that we are accepting the current dating system, and if we take as a given the currently accepted definition of a (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Dave Schuler (<Fnrwno.43A@lugnet.com>) wrote at 18:57:24 (...) Well, I've bitten my tongue so far, but here goes: The current system for numbering years was only invented some time in the fifth or sixth century, IIRC. Therefore, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) OK, to REALLY set the record straight. That was a joke! Really. Stop with the emails telling me <x>(1) already. I picked Jasper's name from a hat. I just wanted to show off that insult generator that was used on RTL to somewhat comedic effect. (...) (26 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. (26 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, (...) (26 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 (...) (26 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 (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I didn't see it- a brief explanation please? Chris (26 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 (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It's called, the boss calling you into his office, saying, Steve: "Scott, I want you to pull the plugs on the equipment." Scott: "Yes sir, how far?" I didn't at home, or anywhere else. But when your boss calls, you don't go into the arguments (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: My complaint about Jasper Janssen (SPOILER)
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(...) Yes. Specifically, repeating it for the benefit of others: "Jasper's cronies are often caught trying to force us to do things or take stands against our will." Jasper's cronies in this context are the mean nasty big government statists... (26 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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