Y2K

From: Brian Tickler <tickler_at_netcom.com>
Date: Wed Jan 5 21:41:28 2000

> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:57:15 -0500 (EST)
> From: bjm10_at_cornell.edu
> Subject: nine equals ten
>
> > If 99% of the world celebrates the new milleneum on 1/1/2000, then the
> > point is moot, isn't it? Facts are largely immaterial when everyone
> > decides they want to ignore them (witness: Elmal).
>
> So, in that case, can I buy things off you? Since you believe that
> 999=1000, and 99=100 and 9=10, I should be able to get QUITE a discount
> if I manage things correctly.

Hmmm...nowhere in my post did I come even remotely close to stating that. However, you may certainly buy things from me; I charge an 80% markup to anyone with an Ivy League email address, though. It's a special surcharge I levy for pumping so many useless MBAs into the world... :)

Ok, that was my 2nd response to a thread that has gone off-topic (in this case it actually started off-topic). I am now enforcing my personal messageboard ground rules and cutting myself off ;).

• -- Brian T. Tickler

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