WR - Fw: Y2K Parody

[Stephen Oyler]

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Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 7:49 AM
Subject: Y2K Parody


>I think you'll enjoy this.
>
>Subject:  Y2K Issue ??
>TRANSLATED FROM A LATIN SCROLL DATED 2BC
>Dear Cassius,
>Are you still working on the Y zero K problem ?   This change from BC to AD
>is giving a lot of headaches and we haven't much time left.  I don't know
>how people will cope with working the wrong way round.  Having been working
>happily downwards forever, we now have to start thinking upwards.
> You would think that someone would have thought of it earlier and not left
>it to us to sort out at this late minute.
> I spoke to Caesar the other evening. He was livid that Julius had not 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 3 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
>
>
>
>Lida Boland
>COTR, Innovation & Procurement Service
>e-mail:  Lida.Boland at med.va.gov
>voice: 205 290-7110; fax 205 290-7417 (call first)
>
>
>

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