I just stumbled across the "Gary South" forum this morning, quite by accident. While I'm a GI and have been preparing because I recognize the seriousness of Y2K, I still got a couple of good laughs from this site which, of course, make fun of North. My thought, though, was if whoever created this site spent as much time and effort on real preps as he/she did on this, all would be well in that person's life come 1-1-00.

-- Vic (Roadrunner@compliant.com), February 17, 1999

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Vic, I also thought the site was funny; found it about a month ago. Do you really spend a lot of time preparing? I find it doesn't take that much time to pick up a few extra items at the store, no big deal.

-- Lucy (interested@myhome.com), February 17, 1999.

Lucy:

Preparing for us has meant quite a bit more than picking up a few extras every time we go to the store. We're in a rural setting so it's meant buying a generator and a 1,000-gallon propane tank. Done a lot of canning (that's hard work) and we have a garden (more hard work). Being fully prepared (is there such a thing?) is a difficult task, physically and emotionally, and I wish you the best of luck.

-- Vic (Roadrunner@compliant.com), February 17, 1999.

Lucy,

No offense intended, but either 1) you are WAY more prepared that most or 2) you don't REALLY Get It. or 3)You're below a 5.

Whichever way it is, I don't imply anything perjorative. Just that preps for a 5 or above cannot possibly constitute just picking up a few extra things at the grocery.

I hope for you sake it's 1)

-- Greybear

- Got H20?

-- Greybear (greybera@home.com), February 17, 1999.

You're going to die with the sinners, AES...

-- Nabi Davidson (nabi7@yahoo.com), February 17, 1999.

Got to admit I found this funny

Doom Level 1 Body Count: 0. Very slight effects. Vague rumors of problems in faraway backward countries. Price of chewing-tobacco rises. Riots in West Virginia.

Doom Level 2 Body Count: 100. Things get twitchy. Telephone doesn't want to ring sometimes. Power flickers off in a few locales. Gary North confesses that he really really likes women's clothing.

Doom Level 3 Body Count: 1000. Things get a bit serious. Small bank runs. Power and telephone unreliable generally. Gary North confesses he likes to dance in drag.

Doom Level 4 Body Count: 10000. Run on banks gets serious. Bank holiday. Stock market retreats. Serious power and telephone problems. Gary North confesses he is a lesbian.

Doom Level 5 Body Count: 100,000. Food not on shelfs. People cold, hungry, desperate. Stock market plunges with exception of Internet stocks, which rise to a new record.

Doom Level 6 Body Count: 1 Million. Widespread starvation. Nuclear weapons detonated. Fractional Reserve System promoted to a whole number. Involuntary Baptisms surge.

Doom Level 7 Body Count: 100 Million. Major starvation. Lots of nuclear weapons go off, some forming very pretty mushroom clouds. Division Of Labor no longer divisible. Pope says everyone should "party while they can".

Doom Level 8 Body Count: 1 Billion. War, famine, pestilence. Horror and disease. Mass anguish and death. IRS warns taxpayers not to use these as excuses for failing to file.

Doom Level 9 Body Count: 5 Billion. Earth wiped out. Almost all human life eliminated. Indy 500 cancelled. Hunting and gathering lifestyle-choice in vogue. REI sales boom.

Doom Level 10 Body Count: 6.5 Billion, More Or Less. Earth incinerated. All life beyond the simplest and most primitive protozoan slime molds completely extinguished. Pat Buchanan elected President.

-- - (-@-.-), February 17, 1999.

Hey ASS2010,

Bring the wolf on by,,,watch out for the claymores and pungie sticks,,,,jerk

-- TAZ (taz@no.yr), February 17, 1999.

I di. Sorry, you'll just have to live with it AES

-- God (.@heaven.com), February 17, 1999.

wow, even God makes typos

-- now I'm (feeling@better.com), February 17, 1999.

For someone contemptuous of the posters on this board, you sure are spending a lot of time here, AES.

-- Vic (Roadrunner@compliant.com), February 17, 1999.

"...to taz and anyone else who has their homes wired up to explode or whatever... just because you ARE a character doesn't mean you HAVE character. "

I'm enjoying this. Can you quote from any other Quentin Tarantino movies?

-- a big (harvey@keitel.fan), February 17, 1999.

Hey fumducker,

You point the claymore away from the house stupid. Who said I have charactor,,,bring your sorry 'tude around me and I'll eat your lunch.

-- TAZ (taz@no.yr), February 17, 1999.

c'mon guys don't feed the trolls! AES is just another DWGI who is trying to prove he's smarter than everyone else.

or for the folks who've been here a while: bridge, bridges.

Arlin

-- Arlin H. Adams (ahadams@ix.netcom.com), February 17, 1999.

Ah come on Arlin,,,can't we slap a troll instead of feeding it? He's probably a 5'4" Walter Mitty type that just want's to puff himself up so he'll feel better about his sorry a**. I mean,,,didn't he scare you? He has me all atremble.

-- TAZ (taz@no.yr), February 17, 1999.

Hey troll,

A link just for you.

http://www.menaceu.com/i_told_you_not_to_click_there.htm

-- TAZ (taz@no.yr), February 17, 1999.

AES2010,

You obviously don't have any children...

-- Kevin (mixesmusic@worldnet.att.net), February 17, 1999.