Yep, you East coasters are gonna fry first. But really (start of a short rant), have you noticed millennial commemmoration junk being sold? That is driving me crazy. I can understand even junk for the Superbowl, but the year-turn? A T-shirt that says “Millennium, 2000!” Well, Christ on a crutch, you lived through that too? Along with the other 6 billion people who happened to have been alive at the time? Well, doesn’t that make you part of an elite clique, no?
Ok. I feel better now.
Well, lessee:
1 & 2. Saw TenHippies’s OP dated 12-21. Since I was posting on 12-22 I subtracted one day. Didn’t cross reference the calendar and didn’t account for time zones making TH’s post appear to be a day earlier. That’s 2 mistakes.
3 & 4. Held map upside down, then made snide comment based on that error. That’s 2 more.
5 & 6. Posted during MPSIMS software fart. Believed mmessage saying “Server not found” and continued to click submit, resulting in a triple post. 2 again.
Six errors in a single, meaningless one and a half line post. Beat that, ya wussies!
The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik
like a glas is half empty or half full, are you counting down or counting up to year 2000?
Up or down, it’s 6 days till the end of the 1900s!
I’m really not caught up in the media’s millennium hoopla-- the good, the bad, or the ugly.
My excitement over 2000 is threefold:
- I’ve always enjoyed New Year’s Day.
- I remember thinking, as a kid, that the year 2000 was exotic and far, far away…I suppose because the number 2000 looks so different from, say, the number 1965. I’m still that kid.
- For most of my life, I was certain that I would not live to see the year 2000. In my teen years, I believed humanity would destroy itself with nuclear weapons before now (Sure, it’s still possible, but it seems less likely to me)…in my 20s and 30s, my own chemical warfare on myself made it unlikely I’d live this long-- and I nearly didn’t.
So, yeah, I’m thrilled about seeing the year 2000. Like hitting 40 this past July, it’s a milestone that I’m amazed and grateful to be reaching.
Just seeing what time it is. My clock is broke.
Ok, 7:01, huh? That leaves 5 days, 4 hours, and 59 minutes until Y2K. Is that right?
Cessandra
It’s frightening how many crazies think that world is going to end in a few days. All of us smart people know that it’s not ending until next year.
No, 4 days. 4 days, right? And now it’s something like 53 minutes, as well.
Man, this countdown is hard to keep up with.
Cessandra: “My clock is broke.”
Highly unlikely. Most clocks are very frugal and always have a little something stashed away. Perhaps yours felt that was the most diplomatic way to fend off a request for a loan?
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-W.C. Fields
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Not only is your “clock broke” but something else is amiss, too. Right now it’s about 8:30pm EST, so the year 2000 will hit in approximately 6 days, 3 hours, and about 30 minutes here in the Eastern time zone.
Ah, the millenium. I’m not apocalyptic about it, but my husband is a little skittish. So, I bought some extra food & stuff. It could go either way, I think. Either nothing bad will happen, or the Four Horsemen will show up & end it all right quick.
But if the worst does happen, at least now I know who “manny” is!
I know there is some dispute over the beginning of the “new millennium”…it’s really 2001, I know. But surely we can agree that the new year starts on the first day of January.
It is December 25…26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. I count 6 days and a few hours till the new year. Is this a bizarre concept?
I live on the east coast also…we need to make sure that we keep our mouths shut at the turn of the year…why spoil the event for others? Then again…if you don’t hear from us…maybe it’s because we can’t answer you???
Ok, TennHippie, this is how I figured what I did:
The last post was made at 8:16, so let’s call that what time it is.
in 44 minutes it will be 9 o’clock. At 9, we will have 3 hours until midnight. At midnight it will be December 27th. No! That’s where it went wrong! The computer has been telling me that today is the 26th, but it’s not, is it? Today is Christmas, the 25th!
Ok, at midnight the date will be December 26th. From then to the next midnight (when it becomes the 27th) is one day. Then 2 days is the 28th, 3 days is the 29th, 4 days is the 30th, 5 days is the 31st, and 6 days is the New Year.
You’re right, TennHippie. (BTW, the second mistake that brought me from 5 days to 4 was thinking that I didn’t need to count 31-1, because midnight on the 31st was the 1st. I forgot that I was counting from the midnight that started December 31st, not the one that ended it.)
6 days, 3 hours, and probably less than 40 minutes.
It’s frightening how many crazies think that world is going to end in a few days. All of us smart people know that it’s not ending until next year.
4 days!!!
Good gracious…why don’t we just do it the easy way? January first is a Saturday…this COMING Saturday. Today is Monday. In one day, it will be Tuesday, in two days, it will be Wednesday…In FIVE days, it will be Saturday, January 1, 2000.
If you want to be really technical about it, We have four days, seven hours, and about 25 minutes.
“Wednesday the 15th - Chris made one of her rare good points today.”
Guanolad
4 days, 4 hours, 4 minutes!!!
Well, it was according to my clock, anyway!
Future schmuture!
When I was a kid and first started reading science fiction, the year 2000 was unimaginably distant and exotic.
Now it’s almost here, I’ll tell ya what: If there ain’t no flying cars and foodarackacycles by noon on January 1st, I’m turning right around and going back to the 20th century. Until then, there ain’t no new millennium – it’s just an optical illusion.
I once lost my corkscrew and had to live on food and water for several days
-W.C. Fields
http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm
Oh, but you’re just looking at the dark side.
Consider the things we do have that the books never predicted:
WWF
NASCAR
Jerry Springer
gangsta rap
Young Republicans
3(count 'em!), 3, 3 days till…