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Article #9193Re: New years eve 1999
From: William Lewis
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 07:52
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 07:52
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In article <2925@munnari.oz.au> dnk@munmurra.UUCP (David Kinny) writes:
>Again the same stupid claims are being advanced that the end of the
>century/millenium is at the end of the year 2000. This is ludicrous !
[...]
>that differ only in the last 1/2/3 digits. I know when I'll be
>celebrating the New Year's Eve party of the millenium. Hands up all
>those clods who are going to be a year late.
Well, there is an obvious solution to this. I'm going to be celebrating
on the boundary between this millennium and the next... to avoid confusion,
I will get the best of both worlds, and simply celebrate all year long
in the year 2000.
A little impractical, perhaps, but... hmmm...
--- phelliax the celebrant
--
wiml@blake.acs.washington.edu (206)526-5885 Seattle, Washington
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!caesar.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!blake!wiml From: wiml@blake.acs.washington.edu (William Lewis) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: New years eve 1999 Summary: The obvious solution Message-ID: <5140@blake.acs.washington.edu> Date: 22 Dec 89 07:52:26 GMT References: <2925@munnari.oz.au> Reply-To: wiml@blake.acs.washington.edu (William Lewis) Followup-To: sci.space Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 19