Is it just me, or is this forum heating up....greenspun.com : LUSENET : TimeBomb 2000 (Y2000) : One Thread |
Seems like the pace is accelerating.....Buzzzzzzz
-- Buzz (want@to.know), November 09, 1999
Seems to be heating up altho there is less consensus than ever. Pollies more pollyannaish, Doomers more doomerish.
-- Lars (lars@indy.net), November 09, 1999.
That's a trend I'd expect to see continue right up to rollover, when it will take on absolutely baroque attributes. In a surreal environment, pollies will chortle and giggle and haul out a million saved quotes about thousands dead and cities in flames.Doomers, on the other hand, will seize every page 10 news clip about a air conditioning system failing in a chicken processing factory in Mississippi and proclaim that the lid's about to come off and that the mysterious powers that be and the cigarette smoking man can't keep these failures a secret any more, and the sheeple will riot.
And on we go - until we realize that the whole purpose of this forum is to give doomers and pollies a safe place to growl at each other without the unpleasant distraction of actually doing it in person.
JZ
-- Jeff Zurschmeide (zursch@cyberhighway.net), November 09, 1999.
JeffI remember it being 'millions dead' not thousands......
Deano
-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), November 09, 1999.
Jeff,I like that. A place for us to growl at each other. Fitting, very fitting.
-- (cannot-say@this.time), November 09, 1999.
A thousand here, a million there, pretty soon you're talking about real people...JZ
-- Jeff Zurschmeide (zursch@cyberhighway.net), November 09, 1999.
I'm a doomer, you're a doomer, he's a doomer, she's a doomer, wouldn't ya like to be a doomer, too? (Be a doomer, Y2K doomer...Be a doomer, Y2k doomer)...Drink Doomer Cola!! It's refreshing!!!
-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), November 09, 1999.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
-- (growling@whatever.moves), November 09, 1999.
Thousands?...millions?
Seems I recall someone here saying "two billion dead"...of course, I really don't remember who.
-- K. Stevens (kstevens @ It's ALL going away in January.com), November 09, 1999.
Aloha JZ -- what a lovely visual piece. I like your style -- grngrl
-- grngrl (jhandt@gte.net), November 10, 1999.
Hey, what about those of us who are neither polly nor doomer, but just viciously agnostic? ;p
-- Colin MacDonald (roborogerborg@yahoo.com), November 10, 1999.