Friday's posts showed frayed nerves, irritation, mild hysteria, and comic relief. Here's hoping people are rested from the weekend and ready for another week of posting.

Emotions will get more intense every week until it's over.

It helps to have a sense of humor to help take away some of the stress.

Don't go giving yoursevs a heart attack from all of that stress and end up missing the outcome.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), October 18, 1999

Answers

Oh shut the f*** up Bitch!

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), October 18, 1999.

Sorry Cherri - couldn't resist - just joking (smile)

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), October 18, 1999.

Nah, I think most of the militant extremists will be hung over from an extended weekend bender... give them till Wednesday or so to get all riled up again.

Most of the frayed nerves are going to be over on Wall Street.

-- @ (@@@.@), October 18, 1999.

Bitch huh? Why, thank you. I always consider it a compliment when someone is so effected by me that they feel the need to call me that.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), October 18, 1999.

27th floor...Sporting goods....mens wear.....26th floor...cosmetics....linens and whites.....25th floor....lawn and garden supplies....going down....going down....going down....

-- Jay Urban (jurban@berenyi.com), October 18, 1999.

This coffee'll calm me down!

-- Spidey (in@jam.charbucks), October 18, 1999.

I feel better with my small stash of gold/silver THANKS to Andy (and a few others who tirelessly gave of their humble opinions. ANDY, THANK YOU for your time and effort. I'm just a little gal with a bit o' money who converted 1/3 of the little she has into touchables.

-- Debi (LongTimeLurker@shy.com), October 18, 1999.

Thank You Debi - may they swell to $30,000 an ounce as I fully expect, in due course :)

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), October 18, 1999.

Cherri, did you mean to post this at your friend Doc Paulie's forum? He seems to be in sore need of your advice this morning. He thinks those of us at TB2000 "could lead to a Hitler rerun."

No you ought show some dam respect is what you ought do (long)

Posted by (209.170.209.45) Doc Paulie on October 18, 1999 at 03:09:48:

In Reply to: Some of you guys ought to be ashamed....... posted by DavePrime on October 18, 1999 at 01:57:32:

Well, well, poking around in my directories, trying to get a "search feature" up and running ya know, and what do I find? DavePrime ducking in late to post. Take a break here and respond to ya Dave-o.

What you maybe unable to understand is that the MENTALITY so common on a TB2000, COULD lead to a Hitler rerun. Your keyword is COULD. Look at what the mind-set is over there. And I believe common among many beyond the niche of Y2k. Could include the gun-freaks, gold-bugs, NWO-maniacs, ultra right-wing goons, World Net daily type reader, "conservative talk radioheads", you know, all your I AM SICK OF IT ALL UP 2 HERE, AND CLINTON AND THEM ARE TO BLAME! The whiner brigade who have been brainwashed to think we live in the 1950's or as far back as North, the Colonial Period.

Take just ONE of these TARGETS, say the NWO(new world order). Who of a sane mind does not think the new information technologies of this new paradigm, does not DEMAND a new alignment of governance? I would submit it ALREADY has and what the NWO noise IS, is but a REACTION to what already IS the reality. For recorded time, there has always BEEN an effort by someone to DOMINATE the world. The absolute irony of todays' world is, the RULER is and will BE access to information--WORLD FREEDOM. Truth will RULE.

TB2000 types are out-dated, scared, hopeless people who feel DONE WRONG. Their failure lies in the mirror, not OUT THERE. They have failed to properly PROSPER, and are merely SURVIVING. Some are spolied rotten and seek a cleansing of their err. Milne, Yourdon, and a Diane *sigh* would fit this bill. They live from old ill-gotten gains and DO NOT want it to stop. The new reality "threatens" their "lifestyle". In private they do not REALLY live this way, only play like they do for others. These are the ruler type cult member. The more common are the working-class stiffs who live paycheck to paycheck. They LIKE Capitalism, never done them much good, but they LIKE IT. Hitler was a Capitalist, also a Facist. I tend to think they be similar. Lost in all this renaming, and spin-doctoring is the concept of FREE ENTERPRISE. Cept competition is NOT a good thing if you be the one with the eggs. So one's best defense is to condition your customers into the role of sheep/CONSUMERS. Not "partners" in commerce, DUPES. No better group of saps can be found but the card-carrying Sam's Club/Wal-Mart/Costco jokers that inhabit TB2000. These suckers are so lame, they PAY to shop, hello. May make sense, and I am a Costco member, but the original reason for the membership has now become some stamp-of-deals to most of the sheep best seen at TB2000. I joined years ago for business purposes, this was the intent of the club-stores originally-their way around the FTC rules , no more. They are now outlets of monopolies who have spent much time and effort to condition their sheep to pay-to-shop, provide zero customer service, basically treat-em and herd-em like the COWS they are. Insane part is, the COWS think it all just peachy. This conditioning is typical of how you turn a society inside-out. These whiners claim they want a return to real values(all around), but make a beeline to the low/price action like flies to cow-shit. They actually believe things are NOT valued properly. They think a bottle of Tylenol is OVER_PRICED if bought in civilized surroundings in 3 minutes at Rite-Aid, compared to a hour in the circus that is a club-store. Besides, at Rire-Aid you mey get to "chat" with Skippy the 16 year-old stockboy and male-bond, you know, old-fashioned crap like that. At a Costco, one would be "lucky" if one even SAW a freaking employee not taking money or checking a reciept or card(IDs).

"There is a feeling undefined"...Don Henley [End of the Innocence] song just about sums-up our times. Many are displaced, lost, and feel out of control. They want a return to a time when things were simpler and slower. Unfortunately for losers, they whine, bitch, point-fingers, and bring into their reality a world which mirrors these compulsive thoughts. To one watching, these people appear INSANE. Truth is, they are, thus lies the danger. Once enough of these types, or those of similar "mind-set" band together, as like a cult, you have the foundation for a Hitler repeat.

You tell me Dave, do most on TB2000 have contempt for Bankers? the Media? Would you also think many like that also believe these industries operated by Jews? aside from Ted Turner etc? If we have a Dow3000 and a TEN YEAR depression, I think we pretty close to a re-run, a GENE POOL cleansing as the wackos call it.

So before you spout off again and point your TV Tube finger to us, please do the MENTAL WORK ahead of time. If done you will not have to "wonder why" this type of a thread exists below. My opinion is the thread is TAME to the extreme, a parody of a situation I feel is dead-serious. I know you will not get it, but that figures now doesn't it.

This be a sliver of the issue Dave, Y2k is merely NOISE my friend. A major sliver, but one of many involving the drama:::dead-men walking and who will they take with them on their trip to hell.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), October 18, 1999.

Thanks for that Old Git. There's just no better way of reaffirming one's own sanity than reading a little Doc Paulie.

-- number six (Iam_not_a_number@hotmail.com), October 18, 1999.

Thanks so much for your kind concerns, Cherri DeBunker at sams@brigadoon.com!

This quote from your "illustrious" leader is a hoot...

...Some are spolied rotten and seek a cleansing of their err. Milne, Yourdon, and a Diane *sigh* would fit this bill. They live from old ill-gotten gains and DO NOT want it to stop. The new reality "threatens" their "lifestyle". In private they do not REALLY live this way, only play like they do for others. These are the ruler type cult member. The more common are the working-class stiffs who live paycheck to paycheck... -- Doc Paulie

Huh?

Phhhfffffttttt! (Said as a Whoopie Goldberg rude noise).

Boy... is he twisted!

I "WISH" I got a paycheck for volunteering my time here!

*Bigger Sigh Than You Know*

Diane

P.S. Whatcha want to bet he NEVER read these links?...

New Senate Y2K Hearings - "What in the World Will Happen?"

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 001Zqp

Or...

*****Senate 100 Day Report in HTML*****

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 001SFC

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), October 18, 1999.

Hey, Cherri, exactly how would YOU characterize the postings over at the bonkers site? How would YOU describe the posts by Doc Paulie??

I really would like to know....

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), October 18, 1999.

Old Git!!! Bold words on a bleak Monday! Have at 'em!

-- Spidey (in@jam.ennui), October 18, 1999.