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THE 1999 COMPLIANCE CRAZE You'll be glad to know that companies guarantee plastic cutting boards to be free from Y2K probs. No, we're not kidding. February 23, 1999

-- Declan McCullagh (declan@y2kculture.com), February 23, 1999

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At first I thought you meant the credit card (plastic) swipe machines...

I guess I can rest easy now as I make that dreadful changeover from wood to plastic in my kitchen.

-- (Chef Antwon @ home. com), February 23, 1999.

This may be the dumbest thing I've ever heard

Declan's just trying to get clickthrough on his website.

-- declan's (startingto@bother.me), February 23, 1999.

Declan, you'll be glad to know that I have inside information that the US and Canada will jointly announce within a month that Niagra Falls is fully compliant. (Not the vistor centers, just the falls themselves.)

Also, Lee's rickshaw in Beijing is expected to be compliant by June, but feedback has been slow from his client and customer compliance survey.

-- Puddintame (dit@dot.com), February 23, 1999.

then of course there is gravity, which is y2k compliant, and on a less weighty topic, so is air.

what I'd be willing to pay money for: a rifle sling with the "Y2K-OK" logo...

Arlin

-- Arlin H. Adams (ahadams@ix.netcom.com), February 23, 1999.

Actually that is not completly true. Plastic cutting boards harbor more bugs than old fashioned wood cutting boards.

http://www.woodsgooder'n.com/dam-plastic

-- Mark Hillyard (foster@inreach.com), February 23, 1999.

Would that include the embedded chips after slicing potatos?

(potatoes in case the former VP is reading)

-- PNG (png@gol.com), February 23, 1999.

My white plastic cutting board is not scratch-proof compliant, so I tossed it out into the garage.

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), February 23, 1999.

Can't remember what Dan Qualye was correcting but if it was singular verses plural then according to the following he was right.

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary copyright 1981

Potato...n, plural-toes

Potato...singular

-- Mark Hillyard (foster@inreach.com), February 23, 1999.

But will we be able to make plastic?

-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), February 23, 1999.

-- Mike Lang

Mud and clay are plastic!

-- Mark Hillyard (foster@inreach.com), February 23, 1999.