Gold was up a big, fat 7.25 today.

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And its only December 7th!! To be honest, I thought things would be a lot bumpier than they are. Gotta hand it to the press. They really managed to keep a lid on this.....

-- timemachine (timemachine@the.future), December 07, 1999

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Of course the price got socked because of the Dutch plan to sell gold next year. Guess folks are looking at the current price drop as a time to buy. Speculating on the gold situation now would not be for the weak of gut. What a mixed up market.

-- Brian (imager@home.com), December 07, 1999.

I'm both grateful and dismayed at how quiet things have been. I am just smarting from a response to my Y2K warning on a loop of friends. This woman has two children who are the center of her world. She says all that "ordinary people" can do is face each day. If that were so, how could the rest of us on this list have prepared with such forethought? I suppose I should have given up when they kept ignoring me, but I honestly wanted them to prepare. A number of them have children.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 07, 1999.

Mara, I had a similar experience early this year. I had been talking off and on to a woman that I had known for years about Y2K, including how I was going to be re-locating from the Washington, D.C. area to Northwest Arkansas because of it. She always seemed very interested, and said that she was sharing various conversations and printouts that I had given to her (she did not have a home computer) with her husband.

A couple of weeks before I left, I mentioned Y2K and asked what she thought at that point. She started talking about some material that I had definitely not given her, something about a list of people connected to Bill Clinton that had died under mysterious circumstances, which apparently someone else had given to her (probably off the Internet).

To make a long story short, Y2K was simply one of many "Hmmmm, interesting, yes..." type topics that she apparently was looking at, with of course not the slightest comprehension that she and her family could be personally affected by.

You can only do so much.

24 days.

Y2K CANNOT BE FIXED!

-- Jack (jsprat@eld.~net), December 07, 1999.

I'm with you, I have tried, the evidence (in my understanding) has been overwelming that what we will face soon is more than just a BITR, I have made every effort to get my family and friends to take this seriously. The "spin control" has been the biggest success of any media campaign in the history of "so called" reporting of the NEWS. I understand their reluctance to accept what I so fervently wish was not going to happen, but damn, they aren't even making minor, frugal or prudent precautions or preps. I truly wish those in leadership were either more truthful or less stupid, one or the other. May we get thru this the best we can.

Michael

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


Mara: Tell them: "You know what unprepared ordinary people are called? Casualties!"

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


I have an open offer... If any one wants to get rid of their worthless gold, contact me. I think I can afford postage.

-- Reporter (reporter_atlarge@hotmail.com), December 07, 1999.

Wow gold went up 7 today. Yahoo went up over 60 today. A share of Yahoo is now worth more than an ounce of gold.

-- Butt Nugget (catsbutt@umailme.com), December 07, 1999.

A share of yahoo is only worth something as long as yahoo is up and running. An ounce of gold will always have value.

-- cody (cody@y2ksurvive.com), December 08, 1999.

The run-up in Yahoo's stock price is incredible to say the least. Why don't you buy some for bartering. I'm sure it'll hold its worth in case of supply disruptions, right? You buy the stock first. I'll follow you....

-- haha (haha@haha.com), December 08, 1999.

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