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Thought some levity might be helpful....

And the winner of Contest #18 is:

A Mr. Weisfeld, in charge of Y2K readiness in Microsoft Israel: "Our system is already Y2K compliant ... but you can improve your Y2K compliance by using the special CD, which carries out some minor fixes." 
Hmm, so there's "compliant" and then there's "improved compliance?"  Quoted on The Register MS and Symantec spar over 'hoax' Windows Y2K email October 25, 1999.  Submitted first by Erick Van Selst.

ww.duh-2000.com

-- TA (
sea_spur@yahoo.com), December 07, 1999

Answers

oops... www.duh-2000.com

-- TA (
sea_spur@yahoo.com), December 07, 1999.

Well crappo...

www.duh-2000.com

-- TA (sea_spur@yahoo.com), December 07, 1999.


Also from the "Well Is That So" File:

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Roswell Explained...

On July 8, 1947, witnesses claim a spaceship with five aliens aboard crashed on a sheep-and-cattle ranch outside Roswell, an incident they say has been covered up by the military. March 31, 1948, nine months after that day, Al Gore was born. That clears up a lot of things.

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-- snooze button (alarmclock_2000@yahoo.com), December 07, 1999.


I would definitely believe Symantec over Microsucks. I'd even have to flip a coin re Klinton vs. Microsucks.

The reason you can't believe Microsucks is that they use typical weasel words like "Issues" instead of BUGS, as if the euphemism makes a bug into something almost soft and cuddly. Shit is still shit even if you call it excrement.

(BTW, moralists, why are the short Anglo-Saxon words a "no-no", but Anglo-Saxon words with "*" substituted for one or more letters marginally OK, and the Greek/Latin multi-syllabic equivalents just fine?)

-- A (A@AisA.com), December 07, 1999.


From a post card sent to customers regarding their website:

" In order to work properly after the year 2000, some Microsoft products may require a year 2000 software update. We recommend that you install the software updates so you'll continue to have the best computing experience. " The website SAE ( sucks an egg ).

-- Ken G. (None@this.time), December 07, 1999.



Thanks alarmclock, that was pretty funny....coincidence I'm sure. Well......maybe???

-- Michael Teever (teotwawki_soon_2000@yahoo.com), December 07, 1999.

Hey, maybe Al was telling the truth about "inventing" the internet, maybe it was his parents (some type of alien insemination thing) whose technology was responsible for computers as we know them now, maybe they were also upset about environmental concerns too, after he just claimed to have discovered the "Love Canal" fiasco years ago too.

-- Michael Teever (teotwawki_soon_2000@yahoo.com), December 07, 1999.

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