[Sorry--Mystery Man (mysterious@man.net) = Y2K Pro--you've been banned from this forum--get one of your friends to post the story instead--Sysop]

-- Mystery Man (mysterious@man.net), December 14, 1999

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Thanks Mystery Man,

I too hope it will not be the end of the world. I made a few preps for some disruptions, though.... just in case.

-- (Polly@troll.com), December 14, 1999.

WWII wasn't the end of the world, either. It killed what, 20 million people? More or less. But the world didn't end.... Unless you were one of the 20 million.

-- the sun will (come@out.tomorrow), December 14, 1999.

the sun will, WWII killed 40 million--20 million combatants and 20 million noncombatants! But,of course, it wasn't the end of the world. At any rate, this organization is connected with the White House as its head is "on loan" from there. So what do you expect as a report, mystery? Oh, excuse me, are you from the White House, too?

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 14, 1999.

Another day, another faulty analogy from doomdom. Just a question for 'sunny' and mara: are you having a contest to decide who can ignore more positive news? Don't you feel the least bit guilty --or even suspicious--in joining the hysterical viwpoint that everything which is not in line with your way of thinking is somehow contrived?

Mystery Man, again, a tip of the hat to you for providing the continued antiseptic.

-- Bad Company (johnny@shootingstar.com), December 14, 1999.

Sun, to you and all the rest who blithely toss off a World War, Great Depression, or natural disaster's effects.

The Debt

No more old England will they see --

Those men who've died for you and me.

So lone and cold they lie; but we,

We still have life; we still may greet

Our pleasant friends in home and street;

We still have life, are able still

To climb the turf of Bignor Hill,

To see the placid sheep go by,

To hear the sheep-dog's eager cry,

To feel the sun, to taste the rain,

To smell the Autumn's scents again

Beneath the brown and gold and red

Which old October's brush has spread,

To hear the robin in the lane, To look upon the English sky.

So young they were, so strong and well , Until the bitter summons fell --

Too young to die.

Yet there on foreign soil they lie,

So pitiful, with glassy eye

And limbs all rumbled anyhow:

Quite finished, now.

On every heart -- lest we forget --

Secure at home -- engrave this debt!

Too delicate is flesh to be The shield that nations interpose

'Twixt red Ambition and his foes --

The bastion of Liberty.

So beautiful their bodies were,

Built with so exquisite a care:

So young and fit and lithe and fair.

The very flower of us were they,

The very flower, but yesterday!

Yet now so pitiful they lie,

Where love of country bade them hie

To fight this fierce Caprice -- and die.

All mangled now, where shells have burst,

And lead and steel have done their worst;

The tender tissues ploughed away,

The years' slow processes effaced:

The Mother of us all -- disgraced.

And some leave wives behind, young wives;

Already some have launched new lives:

A little daughter, little son --

For thus this blundering world goes on.

But never more will any see

The old secure felicity,

The kindness that made us glad

Before the world went mad.

They'll never hear another bird,

Another gay or loving word --

Those men who lie so cold and lone,

Far in a country not their own;

Those men who died for you and me, That England still might sheltered be

And all our lives go on the same

(Although to live is almost shame).

E.V. Lucas

No, it wasn't the end of THE world, but to those who survived it was the end of OUR world. And, in England, we were still frantically trying to build our new world of new lives, shops, factories, houses, schools, hospitals, churches, infrastructur, merchant ships, and municipal buildings in the mid-sixties--thirty years on. The scars linger.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), December 14, 1999.

"Just a question for 'sunny' and mara: are you having a contest to decide who can ignore more positive news? Don't you feel the least bit guilty --or even suspicious--in joining the hysterical viwpoint that everything which is not in line with your way of thinking is somehow contrived? "

I was just pointing out the very obvious fact that the world doesn't have to end for life to become extremely unpleasant. There's nothing whatever hysterical about that.

It really annoys me when people say "y2k won't be the end of the world." It's such an idiotic statement. If you can't feed your family you don't CARE that the world isn't ending. Your world is ending, & that's all that matters.

-- a million here (a@million.there), December 14, 1999.

Pro, if you email me, Ill post it for you. My email address is

y2kproisa@moron.com

HTH

-- me (@ .), December 14, 1999.

Bad Company, you are such a moron! Why are you even wasting time at this forum? You are a total JACKASS. And you prove it each and every time you post here.

-- Pollys SUCK!!! (noone@nottelling.com), December 14, 1999.

True Polly logic is most curious. The complaint listed above is that preparers/'doomers' think the "end of the world" is coming...strange that one would even bother to prepare if that were the case. Warped logic is the polly trademark.

-- Sceptic (PollyLogic@NOT.com), December 14, 1999.