Subject:	Re: Los Angeles's Y2k drill: oops
Date:	1999/05/27
Author:	cory hamasaki <kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net>
	Posting History

Uh-huh.   "Attention! Attention everyone, this is the mayor.  We are starting the Y2K test now.  You will note that nothing strange is happe..."   -bzzzzzzt-   "What the F***!  The lights are out!"   "Hey, lemme out of this elevator!  I'm scared!  This isn't funny, guys! Stop kidding, OK!"   -bam- -bam-   "Open the door, now."   "What's that smell?"   "I think the mayor had an accident."   -days pass-   "Attention! Attention everyone, this is the mayor.  The power failure and elevator failure during the Y2K test was not related to the Y2K testing.  Everything will work.  That is all."   On Thu, 27 May 1999 19:09:49, alwynaubrey@earthlink.net wrote:   > This is a week-long drill at City Hall, testing various aspects of the > remediation effort in the real world. The elevator story has been pooh-poohed in > the local media as not being Y2K related...as has the second failure, a power > failure for the building during yesterday's test. How odd, though, that these > failures would occur at just this time. The mayor was reported to be "visibly > agitated" when the lights went out at City Hall yesterday as the Y2K tests > started. >  > There is a lot of deep mooing going on at City Hall this week. Wear boots if you > go there.   cory hamasaki http://www.kiyoinc.com/current.html 

-- a (a@a.a), May 28, 1999

Answers

Thanks, a, saw that yesterday (thanks to FM's link) and had a good laugh. Funniest part is, it is so close to what actually happened! Cory's got a gift with the ticklebone ;^)

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-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), May 28, 1999.

Remember the "Peach Bottom Incident" back last February, where the monitors at a nuclear power plant in Penn. locked up during Y2K testing (well documented at Rick Cowles' www.euy2k.com site)? Oh, well, you see that was merely "operator error" or some BS like that.

Come real-life Jan 1, 2000, the ship is going to sink....

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), May 28, 1999.

Just keep telling yourself: Elevators are all Y2K compliant. Elevators are all Y2K Compliant. Elevators are...

All the way down.

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), May 28, 1999.

Mad Monk.

It's more like,

See, no problems yet

-- CT (ct@no.yr), May 28, 1999.

Cory is great, isn't he? A, thanks for the hilarious and timely post.

P.S. Is your handle inspired by its use in "Atlas Shrugged", or by Aristotle's use of it directly? Just wondering...

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-- MinnesotaSmith (y2ksafeminnesota@hotmail.com), May 29, 1999.