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(...) Bath-tubs, meet Mr Tap. I even forgot to do _that_... (...) See? Edison strikes again! (see .debate ;) ) Jasper (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ah, I see. I thought it was because of an unbelief in God:-p It is confusing because, as you say, the Hebrew name for God as written in the OT is YHWH (however it's pronounced, no one knows for sure). So to spell the generic word for God (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) _And_ the one before that, and presumably before that as well, except that the newspaper/magazine hadn't been invented yet so we have no documentation. Jasper (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, I have been going nuts on all the people that were stocking up water, etc. My mom even did that! (30+ Gallons!) My boss Steve isn't the most technical person in the world, he has a hard time logging in in the morning, but Detroit Edison (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Naturally enough, since the concept of zero wasn't accepted in western thought until about five centuries later. (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) yea, I think so too (though it was a *long* day... :-) -S (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Going to publish statistics? I'm interested... ;) Jasper (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yah, I figured that was probably it. That was just my bit of rant for the day. (...) I haven't been able to get a Y2K problem while trying.. barney:~$ uptime 10:32am up 47 days, 11:36, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 barney:~$ date Tue (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Technically, there was, even if it was only defined 525 years later (I think the system was generated in 526). Y'see, when Dionysus Exuugus [sp, it's late and my Latin sucks] generated the "compiled, authoritative" Christian annular calendar, (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It's amazing how a large heavy object can make "Y2K compliance" totally irrelevant, though. Think about it...just think...mmmm. *crunch* LFB (26 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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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