I love the excitment of waiting to see who's next.

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this y2k thing has been the most exciting game i have been to since i used the back seat on saturday nite.long ago. we wait to see who is goig to win this game of life and death, better than having a tickets to the white house and a chance to be able to be, a fly on the wall.

seventy some days and we find out who has practiced and who hasen't.

maybe this hurry up and wait to nowhere and anywhere will be solved. .

my .02 worth is worth exacately what you paid for it.i think we are in the path of being unplesantly suprised come next year. the have will have and nots will not and there will not be a damm thing anybody can do about. along about feburary all the major manfactureing will start laying off people in the thousands. paychecks will be rare, even rarer will be that there will not be no money to bail anyone out of the hardrock and deep sea. houses will be for sale for a .10 on the dollar, canned corn and beans there won't be any. soup kitchens will be serving turnip and pumpkin and stale bread for a while.uncle john's shelves will be empty and borrowing a cup of salt will be like asking your neighbor for the loan of his wife for the nite.all dollar stores will disapear indays, then the grocers and the gas stations. people will be crying unto politicans if one can be found and klintoon and wife will be in some other country. all the canadiates will chane their minds about being a leader, and anyone wanting the job will be elected.anyone that has ever been a politican will be in hiding like fbi most wanted. people will not believe anything goverment says, state or church. the dollar will be strong for a few months until people find out it is not worth the paper its written on, and underground barter will appear, the true sense of a republic will be a no hold barred against trading or barter even the peace keepers will need things.it will be 1918 again. china will threaten the world with its horde of people, and russia will throw their hats into the ring along with all the othe countries except britian, france and england switzerland and canada. the only people that will be talking to america will be israel and oil producing nations, for they know what gathering is about. but there won't be very much they can do due to lack of communications, ounce people realize that they have to live like a third world country cites and counties will band together to work like the old days. there will be no alternate route to go, any other way will cost everyone dearly. some honor will return to the country and people will again have local charges. crooks,theives, and murders will be high on the agenda for support will vanish for prisions and jails.

well thats my two cents worth and it is worth less than that unless you can explain to me why greed and power always works when peple are asleep in the night. u&u

y2k is will bring out the goodness and the worst in a country. The attacks will be lies and falsehoods. a horse and buggy would be nice alond with a barn and ten acres.

-- u & u (jsp394@aol.com), October 23, 1999

Answers

Opinion: This is a non-native english speaker. The language indicates a knowledge of idiom and tradition but not a casual understanding of word usage and word order. Word order languages are difficult to master for native speakers of non-word order languages such as Korean and Japanese... My money is on D.P.R.K Ignore this one.

-- Michael Erskine (osiris@urbanna.net), October 23, 1999.

D.P.R.K ? Spell out please.

If from another country, it is nice to get non-USA-centric viewpoints once in a while.

u & u, where u from?

-- abbreviation challenged (interesting@ideas.there), October 23, 1999.


Democratic People's Republic of Korea. But it looks like Cherri to me.

-- Alphabet (soup@R.us), October 23, 1999.

Agreed. Has the ring of prop-o-ganda to it don' it tho?

-- Billy Boy (Rakkasan@Yahoo.com), October 23, 1999.

If you add a bunch of =,+! to it, along with a dash of hellfire and brimstone, it reads just like al-d...

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), October 23, 1999.


Re-read, yep, this smacks... go home. Chin' Gu.

-- Michael Erskine (osiris@urbanna.net), October 23, 1999.

I will admit this one and only time ever, that I am a DGI on this thread. Please essssplain it to me.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), October 23, 1999.

Well shoot I am just inexperienced is a DGI a Dumb G. I.... Is a G. I. an old grunt...

I am not kidding, I don't know all tha acronyms.

-m-

-- Michael Erskine (osiris@urbanna.net), October 23, 1999.


Gee, this cat really fooled you, huh?. You have to pay attention when someone INTENTIONALLY tries to convince you they are "me no speeky eeeenglis".



-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), October 23, 1999.


Damn these stupid foreigners!! Why can't they find a frigging foreign forum???

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), October 24, 1999.


Brilliant writing u & u, and I enjoyed the entire scenario. Many people, such as Gary North, u & u and sometimes myself, are worried that Y2k will spiral into something worse than what we expect. Much worse.

I lived in Oklahoma during the 1980's and witnessed the collapse of the oil industry and an entire state's economy. Texas, Louisiana, Colorado and others were also critical. As jobs were lost and people let their homes go back to the lenders, the FDIC was forced to come in and take over banks. They would fire sale homes to get liquidity. Neighboring homeowners, some losing their jobs and others making less or realizing that their home with a $130,000 mortgage could not sell for $75,000 just give them back to the lender. The spiral down then begins and feeds itself as the economy gets worse and worse and worse. Unless 'things' begin to happen to bring back in paying jobs, the situation continues in a decline mode. There were vacant homes everywhere as people abandoned the state for places where there was opportunity; Michigan, California, anywhere but Oklahoma. National and Regional retail chains shut down their Oklahoma operations, no new business' opened up, companies were cutting back everywhere, entire office buildings and retail shopping strips were 'see thru', an acronym for completely empty.

Once nice apartment buildings went downhill with crime rampant as landlords would be forced to take undesirable tenants to keep cash flow going. Receivers (court appointed landlords during foreclosures) didn't care about upkeep, tenants or other problems. They were making too much money keeping the expenses going into their own pockets.

There were 34 bank failures and many mergers during those wild years. The only reason it kept going so smoothly is because the rest of the US was going strong. The FDIC almost went broke with the ensuing problems that culminated in the Senate's 'Keating Five' investigation which involved several large banks that all had direct or indirect associations with 'oil patch' banks. It took years after the problems cleared up before they finally closed the government (FDIC, RTC, FSLIC) offices that were liquidating all the assets from the failed institutions.

I often used to wonder what would happen if the problems spread to other states around the country; how the government agencies could keep it under control with failures everywhere at once. They were pushed to the brink with just that one region!

I used to tell my friends in Boston and Los Angeles about what was going on but they couln't comprehend. After all, the 80's were a time of great economic expansion overall. It was an excellent experience and I learned a lot from it that continues to help me.

Anyhow, doom and gloom - our worst economic and political nightmare may occur. God, I hope not. Fake or not, I enjoy your style. Thanks.

-- Mark Miclette (info@gasmasks.com), October 24, 1999.


K.O.S., this is the only (interesting) game in town. Why wouldn't everybody want to see the action? If you can read Dieter's little polemics you shouldn't have any trouble with this one.

It is not mandatory to believe everything you read here.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), October 24, 1999.


Bardou, I think you have a problem to GI because the thread has been jumped on by USA-centric egocentric males.

Erskin, you're not in the USA, you're on the internet. Get with it.

KOS, you're in dire need of a mudwrestle. Do something about it.

-- Chris (#$%^&@pond.com), October 24, 1999.


A true blow for freedom from the tyranny of punctuation! Long live free form lowercase!

-- Scarecrow (somewhere@over.rainbow), October 24, 1999.

Chris; Get the name right, Erskine. Y2K is a world wide problem, yes indeed , I just have a problem with paid military professionals from other countrys posting propaganda. It is simply my opinion that u&u is probably exactly that. -m-

-- Michael Erskine (osiris@urbanna.net), October 24, 1999.


"Illinois Nazis ... I Hate Illinois Nazis"

-- PD (PaulDMaher@worldnet.att.com), October 24, 1999.

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