Subject: y0k humor
Rowland Net Art Bell Talk Reading Room General Humor
sysop - 05:45pm Apr 3, 1999 MST (#53 of 53)
Keith Rowland or Karen Day
Another approach to Y2K!
Translated from Latin scroll dated 1 B.C.
Dear Cassius:
Are you still working on the Y zero K problem? This change from BC to AD
is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't much time left. I don't
know how people will cope with working the wrong way around. Having been
working happily downwards forever, now we have to start thinking
upwards.
You would think that someone would have thought of it earlier and not
left it to us to sort it all out at this last minute.
I spoke to Caesar the other evening. He was livid that Julius hadn't
done something about it when he was sorting out the calendar. He said he
could see why Brutus turned nasty. We called in Consultus, but he simply
said that continuing downwards using minus BC won't work, and as usual
charged a fortune for doing nothing useful.
Surely we will not have to throw out all our hardware and start again?
Macrohard will make yet another fortune out of this I suppose. The
moneylenders are paranoid, of course. They have been told that all usury
rates will invert and they will have to pay their clients to take out
loans. It's an ill wind ...... As for myself, I just can't see the sand
in an hourglass flowing upwards.
We have heard that there are three wise men in the East who have been
working on the problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive until it's
all over.
I have heard that there are plans to stable all horses at midnight at
the turn of the year as there are fears that they will stop and try to
run backwards, causing immense damage to chariots and possible loss of
life.
Some say the world will cease to exist at the moment of transition.
Anyway, we are still continuing to work on this blasted Y zero K
problem.
I will send a parchment to you if anything further develops. If you have
any ideas please let me know.
Plutonius
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