# Countdown **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 1999, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414 "1999-12-22T05:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/1 "1999-12-22T05:39:00Z")
9 days till the end of the 1900s…and the end of life itself? Since most of you are in Central Time, that means I will see the Four Horsemen an hour before you. I’ll let you know what to expect. In case of _Rapture_, I have a feeling this computer will still be manned. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/2 "1999-12-22T17:57:00Z")
8 days and counting. I’m on the east coast, so you folks in points west scream real loud as you’re being tormented, so I can have a head start. * * * The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/3 "1999-12-23T06:02:00Z")
8 days and counting. I’m on the east coast, so you folks in points west scream real loud as you’re being tormented, so I can have a head start. * * * The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/4 "1999-12-23T06:07:00Z")
8 days and counting. I’m on the east coast, so you folks in points west scream real loud as you’re being tormented, so I can have a head start. * * * The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/5 "1999-12-22T19:07:00Z")
I already started a thread griping about this lady in the BBQ pit, but I’ll share here, too: One of my co-workers with whom I have to carpool is ultra-religious and she’s driving me buggy by fussing about the signs of the impending Apocalypse. The first Monday after New Year’s, when I pick her up for work, I think it would be funny as hell to have this conversation with her (if only I weren’t so spineless): Me: Hi! How was your New Year’s? Her: Fine, blah blah blah. How was yours? Me: It was all right. The Rapture was a bummer, though. I mean, my husband, mom, and sister are gone now so it’s just me and the cats. But we’re all right. How are you handling it? * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/6 "1999-12-22T19:14:00Z")
I already started a thread griping about this lady in the BBQ pit, but I’ll share here, too: One of my co-workers with whom I have to carpool is ultra-religious and she’s driving me buggy by fussing about the signs of the impending Apocalypse. The first Monday after New Year’s, when I pick her up for work, I think it would be funny as hell to have this conversation with her (if only I weren’t so spineless): Me: Hi! How was your New Year’s? Her: Fine, blah blah blah. How was yours? Me: It was all right. The Rapture was a bummer, though. I mean, my husband, mom, and sister are gone now so it’s just me and the cats. But we’re all right. How are you handling it? * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/7 "1999-12-22T23:29:00Z")
I already started a thread griping about this lady in the BBQ pit, but I’ll share here, too: One of my co-workers with whom I have to carpool is ultra-religious and she’s driving me buggy by fussing about the signs of the impending Apocalypse. The first Monday after New Year’s, when I pick her up for work, I think it would be funny as hell to have this conversation with her (if only I weren’t so spineless): Me: Hi! How was your New Year’s? Her: Fine, blah blah blah. How was yours? Me: It was all right. The Rapture was a bummer, though. I mean, my husband, mom, and sister are gone now so it’s just me and the cats. But we’re all right. How are you handling it? * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/8 "1999-12-22T23:39:00Z")
I guess we should get in as manny posts as possible before then. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/9 "1999-12-22T23:39:00Z")
I guess we should get in as manny posts as possible before then. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/10 "1999-12-22T23:40:00Z")
I guess we should get in as manny posts as possible before then. ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/11 "1999-12-22T23:44:00Z")
Quit that! You’re freakin’ me out! * * * **Launcher may train without warning.** ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/12 "1999-12-22T23:44:00Z")
Who’s Manny? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/13 "1999-12-23T00:00:00Z")
Incidentally, I still count **9** days. Am I missing something? . . . WARNING: Totally _random_ mundane pointless thought ahead. . . . . . . . . Would pro wrestling be _better_ in any sense of the word if it were real? ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/14 "1999-12-23T00:14:00Z")
Since I’m still using the Julian calendar, January 1st was 5 days ago. Let me know how you Gregorians make out. ## However, I’m very worried about the Ides of March. Let’s see. I lathered and I rinsed. But did I repeat? ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/15 "1999-12-23T00:19:00Z")
How embarrassing! I swear I pushed the button once. It’s the Board, honest! * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/16 "1999-12-23T00:24:00Z")
Catholics are treating the whole thing rather differently than the apocalyptic types – we’re gonna party! 2000 is a Jubilee year for us. Ultrareligious (but, with any luck, single-posted), Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/17 "1999-12-23T00:28:00Z")
Doctor Jackson I think you’re holding your map upside down. The torment will hit you before the west coast. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/18 "1999-12-23T00:37:00Z")
My Catholic husband needs to go to church more often, then. He’s almost bordering on Apocalyptic, or at least he counters my complaints of Doomsayers with, “But would it be so bad if they were right?” (Rolls eyes.) * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/19 "1999-12-23T00:42:00Z")
It’s 9 days by my calendar, using the government approved day counting method (yes, we have such a thing; you wouldn’t believe how many people try to argue with us on deadlines because they don’t like the way we count). Is anyone going out for NYE? I had considered it, but my carpool partner has touched a paranoid nerve, and I am afraid crazies may try to loot my house or something (our front door lock doesn’t work very well… have I said too much?) * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414/20 "1999-12-23T00:46:00Z")
Explanation of “manny” [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions/injokes.html](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions/injokes.html) * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown/12414.md?page=2)