After TEOTWAWKI, does it really matter if you die of: immediate starvation (Pollies), prolonged starvation (those preparing for a few weeks), protecting your food and loved ones from the starving hoards (those that GI but live anywhere near a large city), protecting your right to remain free (those that are prepared and bugging out but targeted by the new government), or being starved and worked to death in a government camp (those that give up rather than fight). We had better start getting our shit together NOW, because just because the infrastructure goes down doesn't mean the government will cease to exist. SOMEONE will rule this country!!! Whether it be the NWO or a very crafty general or...........US!!!! I would like to propose a new site dedicated to how we get this country back after TSHTF. We need a common cause that the most loyal,moral and dedicated Americans support with their lives if necessary. Just surviving is not enough. Fighting for an honorable cause is the nobilist death I can imagine.

-- steve (steve@NWMo.com), July 30, 1999

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Can't wait to see the collection of mutants you would attract with a site of this nature....wheeeeeeehhaaaaaaa!!

-- For (your@info.com), July 30, 1999.

I always thought that plane crash might be the best way. My wife would collect that double indemnity on my life policy, and in those last 2-3 minutes of your life, you never feel more alive, man!

-- Retroman (retro50@agapeis.net), July 30, 1999.

And the "Weekend Madness" begins!

Yes, folks, this posting is the official kick-off of the Friday to Sunday part of our show, "Coming Out of the Woodwork."

It may get ugly for the next 48-60 hours, kids! What phase is the moon in now?

-- (dot@dot.dot), July 30, 1999.

Calm down, Steve, and try it again. If you want sane people to respond, try to sound a little less eager for the end of the world.

-- bw (home@puget.sound), July 30, 1999.

Good question, steve-a-reni. For me, it'll be the attack of the lizard people. They're everywhere.....and they're not happy. I propose a board dedicated to defense against the lizard-people and their evil king. Be scared. Be very scared.

-- Bad Company (johnny@shootingstar.com), July 30, 1999.

Just coming off a Full Moon, heading into the Dog Days of August, wherein awaits bagfuls of prophesy, heat, and the last month of Summer. The kiddies will want to troll atoll as much as possible before Back To School diverts their nonattention.

-- still scanning the sky (not long@to.go), July 30, 1999.

While I posted this as a very serious and important subject, I will admit I have been ROFLMAO for 10 minutes now! First good laugh i have had in awhile!

-- steve (steve@NWMo.com), July 30, 1999.

Anyone wanna lay odds that Steve has seen 'The Postman' one too many times??

Maybe I'll send him a seriously stripped down car and an ice hockey goalie mask and he can play 'Road Warrior' next week.

Hey Steve......just to be helpful.....you've gone 10% more postal than most of the extreme regulars here, so much that even they have to distance themselves from you.

HINT: Even severe disruptions would not result in the bizarre evil fantasy world you have described. Three things you should get:

1. Get a grip 2. Get a life 3. Get a good Doctor.

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), July 30, 1999.

Butt Nugget volunteers his service for your new government.

-- Butt Nugget (nugbuttet@better.mousetrap), July 30, 1999.

Craig.....OK, I'll bite. Just how do you know what it will be like? Is it because your mommy told you you'd be taken care of your whole life and nothing bad would ever happen to you? Or did she drop you on your head and you had a "miraculous" vision. Maybe half your brains ran down your Dad's leg and you aren't as incumbered as some of us?

-- steve (steve@NWMo.com), July 30, 1999.

Die laughing, yes! :-)

Have put in our request to die quietly, peacefully, surrounded by our stuff, intact, alone with each other, God, & Guru.

Y2K presents so many other death scenario potentials, won't go there on this thread ;^) But all the gory possibilities are in the archives.

So many new sites/takes/Forums proposed. Just start a new thread, or fish an apropo one out of the archives. Amazing what your fingertips will stumble across in TBY2K archives ...

? 6 ? 6 ? 6 ? 6 ? 6 ? 6 ? 6 ? 6 ? 6 ? 6

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), July 30, 1999.

*sigh* Alt + key = cool symbols. That was supposed to be a "check" graphic, i.e. check 6. Shows the symbol on this typing window, but after "Submit" things change ...

-- A & L HTML challenged (allaha@earthlink.net), July 30, 1999.

Butt Nugget is awaiting a reply. Is there a position in your new government for old loveable Uncle Butt Nugget

-- Butt Nugget (nugbuttet@Better.Mousetrap), July 30, 1999.

Yes, Commander of the Troll Yellow Submarine. Stationed under Bridge To The 21st Century. Aye Aye Aaiiieeee

-- new flow charts (allaha@earthlink.net), July 30, 1999.

LOL Steve ---- I'm not going to die, no way no how, I've got my sprouts, I've got my rice, I've got my Mosberg, I've got my bag of quarts, I've got my old, old set of cloths that I bought at the thrift shop, and like my name says, "I think I can live forever" No one else has ever done that, but then maybe no one else will ever try as hard as I will try. This little thing called Y2K, even though it is going to be a 10 plus, will just be a little bump in the road for me. I'll have bigger buggy men to fight down the road than this Y2K thing. LOL

-- thinkIcan (thinkIcan@make.it), July 30, 1999.

Butt Nugget...How bout Rear Admiral? You can negotiate a surrender to the trolls for me. I give!

-- steve (steve@NWMo.com), July 30, 1999.

Steve........

Of course I don't know what it will be like for sure.....never claimed to know that.....

However it is EXTREMELY unlikely your scenario is plausible.

Furthermore you started out by saying "After TEOTWAWKI...."

You're assuming TEOTWAWKI with that statement yet you have the silliness to accuse me of thinking I know exactly what will happen.

Don't you realize that you don't even have the support of the people that lean towards a possible 8 or 9 on this forum with your outlandish drivel!!

Can't you see that you are making it hard for those of us that are working hard in our communities to get Y2K taken seriously. They come across ridiculous stuff like you wrote and then assume that all those that talk about Y2K are equally as disturbed.

Think about it man!! Your thread is titled "How are you going to die?"

I wasn't joking when I said you should get a Doctor!

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), July 30, 1999.

Old age...

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), July 30, 1999.

One words folks, patience. Don't argue with the trolls.

-- ()@x0169.g), July 30, 1999.

"teething" or "hiccups"

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), July 30, 1999.

I'll go down fighting!!!!! I can't possibly imagine it any other way.

-- Johnny (JLJTM@BELLSOUTH.NET), July 30, 1999.

Steve,

Ok-- I'll bite, here is the plan. I live close to D.C about twenty minutes by car maybe an hour by bicycle. After D.C. implodes and the smoke clears around the rest of the world, say around Autumn 2000. Wait a minute lets be specific. Oct.15,2000. We can all meet in front of the U.S. Capitol and redue the constitution. At that time we will vote for a King since I doubt any other form of government would be possible. what do you think?

-- David Butts (dciinc@aol.com), July 30, 1999.

John 3:16

-- Bill P (porterwn@one.net), July 30, 1999.

Thank you for your kind offers but they are too much responsibility. I was thinking about a dog chaser position in this new world order.

-- Butt Nugget (nugbuttet@better.mousetrap), July 30, 1999.

Steve

Most folks die of heart failure. I expect to die of natural causes.

A new site concerning the effects of Y2K after the fact would be interesting, as long as I can live through it :o)

-- Brian (imager@home.com), July 30, 1999.

Maybe I'll send him a seriously stripped down car and an ice hockey goalie mask and he can play 'Road Warrior' next

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), July 30, 1999.

Shit Craig that is what I did as a kid,,,,,,,, swinging hockey sticks at all manner of moving objects.

This isn't normal??????

-- Brian (imager@home.com), July 30, 1999.

Yes, for Canadians ;^)

-- Cascadians (dodge@water.puddles), July 30, 1999.

I will die at age 104 after having been shot by a jealous husband.

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), July 31, 1999.

Actually change that. I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers.

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), July 31, 1999.

Old age, I hope... <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), July 31, 1999.

You got it Johnny ! And if I can take some of the bad guys with me, maybe I will be saving my friends' lives.

"Its better to be dead and cool, than alive and uncool" - from "Harley Davidson and the Marboro Man."

by the way, duct tape plays an important part in that movie.

-- biker (y2kbiker@worldnet.att.net), July 31, 1999.

If you're dead you will certainly be cool Biker. Were there any hamsters involved with the duct tape? - I always had my suspicions about Don Johnson...

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), July 31, 1999.

I certainly hope it's not the pandas that do me in. I know they're rare, but I often fear that they're watching and ready to pounce. Can anyone recommend a good panda detection site? If the world is taken over by a group of angry pandas it will be better than rule by lizard men.

-- Kookamunga (cubadub@cubadub.net), July 31, 1999.

Kookamunga,

you are just pandaring to your own fears - get a grip man, if we were all like you pandamonium would ensue in veritable pandemic proportions.

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), July 31, 1999.

I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like the others in his car.

:-) Uhmm..

-- Uhmm.. (jfcp81a@prodigy.com), July 31, 1999.

And this is where the brightest y2kers are supposed to hang out. No wonder so many people are 'going polly' lately.

-- Amu+sed (laughing@these.posts), July 31, 1999.

We had better start getting our shit together NOW, because just because the infrastructure goes down doesn't mean the government will cease to exist.

I disagree, but it depends on your definition of infrastructure. For me, the government is part of the infrastructure, so if infrastructure goes, so does government.

I don't think there will be any organized group of people trying to rule for quite a long time after Y2K hits. There will simply be too much chaos and too much killing. Eventually, I would think that people will "burn out" from all the killing and at that point some sort of organization will form. Still, you have a lot more to fear from the chaos, than you do from what comes afterwards. If I die, I plan to die fighting, that's for sure.

I don't understand why everyone's making a big joke out of your post. Maybe they think Y2K is just a big joke. Yeah, don't worry, everything will be okay. Go back to sleep, Pollys.

-- (its@coming.soon), July 31, 1999.

If the situation really gets bad, the federal government will start to lose its authority, as is happening in Russia. The central government needs transportation and communications systems to control the population. There will be some kind of local governemnt and organized gangs which will take over the functions of government.

-- Dave (dannco@hotmail.com), July 31, 1999.

Steve, I will die VERY PAINFULLY.

-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), August 01, 1999.