Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 21:50:22 -0500 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! Message-ID: <20000101215022.A84669@mad> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001011849090.9474-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from Jonathon McKitrick on Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 06:50:37PM %2B0000 References: <3.0.6.32.20000101111741.0080a680@mail85.pair.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001011849090.9474-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 06:50:37PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Well it seems to me even the people who *know* (though that may be a very > small minority) that the millenium doesn't begin until 2001 would rather > just jump on the bandwagon with everyone else because it's a lot more fun > watching a calendar roll over to '2000' than '2001'. Yes. After listening to endless lectures on 2000 vs. 2001 from parents, peers at University, and this particular mailing-list, all intent on leveraging technicalities so that they could feel superior to the general populace, it was very merciful to spend New Year's with mostly college students. Ah, give me the bliss of ignorance anyday! "I should've taken the blue pill." ;-) [Or do I have the pill colours reversed?] And with that comment, I think we should also congratulate, in the spirit of "First Baby of the Millenium" contests, Jeremy Lea as the first new committer of the millenium! Woo-hoo! Way to go Jeremy! -- Signature withheld by request of author. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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