Here's a little ditty to break the tension hopefully, don't flame me , I'm just the piano player...

(sing to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies, Heres a link for singalong music, but I cant link: http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000bNv)

The Millennium Hillbillies

Well let me tell ya story bout a man named Jed Cobol programmed just to keep his family fed Then one day he was workin for Big Blue Came to realize that the code was all askew

Toasted Fried TEOTAWAKI !

Penetagon ordered for the date to be short Well fix it later was their standard retort Fix on Failure became the refrain So well redo the 1900s again

Well Jed looked around and began to get aware Kinfolk said Jed get away from there! Said Albuquerque is the place you oughtta'be So he loaded up their stuff on the back of an RV

Rumormill has it that the markets gonna crash Banks are gonna close  youll never see your cash! Wont be no TV, no oil, no gas And if you wanna live, ya gotta drink wheatgrass

Granny will be cooking her roadkill bisque To help celebrate the Apocalyspe Guns well be totin for safties sake Gotta find a way to keep yourself awake!!

Now Russia says that her nukes are gonna launch Some rednecks got a recipe for your haunch Folks say thisll be Judgment Day But coming naught-one solar flares are on the way!!!

Panic! Martial Law Youall git out now!!!

-- not that Jerry (jerkenbeck@aol.com), March 19, 1999

Answers

I particularly enjoyed the rhyming of roadkill bisque with Apocalyspe!

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), March 19, 1999.

Ding Ding Ding!!! <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), March 19, 1999.