This from the y2k-wrp list. Poster named Cindy came out with a new acronym for people that are just now getting it. Since they really DO NOT get it.

Let's call them OMG from now on. for OH MY GOD...

Several other people and I agree that this would be a great discription for them.

Blessings...

-- STFrancis (STFrancis@heaven.com), December 30, 1999

Answers

I guess we all could have been called that at some stage !!LOL

-- Chris (griffen@globalnet.co.uk), December 30, 1999.

better to call them TOAST

-- (4@5.6), December 30, 1999.

Just had a conversation with a DGI who's been politely snickering for a year. She asked if I was ready for the Big Midnight, and I told her I hoped for a quiet weekend. She said "so no problem, right?" and I said we'd have an estimate for THAT answer around mid-March, because that's when the cover-ups and degraded databases would finally bring down the first wave of bankruptcies. I expected we'd have a pretty complete picture of the risks by June, and they'd play out over the next year.

Wow, it was instant GI, whole face changed. All this snickering, and now the pieces suddenly connected. No problem, still got 33 hours to prep.

-- bw (home@puget.sound), December 30, 1999.

Yeh, I saw lots of them today, it was fun watching the herd pushing their overflowing carts into one another. I was giggling at the expressions on people's faces when they went to reach for propane cylinders and water and the shelf was bare. I figure I could probably make some big time bucks in a couple more days, but I'll hold out a little while longer and go for the gold.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), December 30, 1999.

A name for those who finally see that it didn't turn out as bad as they thought it would: Got-over-it.

Fortunatly most people who were GI's GOI soon after.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), December 30, 1999.

GI = Gets It

JIT = Just In Time

JGIIT = Just Getting It In Time

or is it

NQIT = Not Quite In Time

?

-- jor-el (jor-el@krypton.uni), December 30, 1999.

GIL-RIP - Got it late, Rest In Peace.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), December 30, 1999.

Yes, I got quite a chuckle out of watching people run around nuts at the store with cart overflowing..but at least they were doing something. Today was normal grocery shopping day so I just had a lot of fun going for the items that they weren't too interested in. Chips, Cookies, candy...a few good deals on staples...etc etc. Tomorrow should be pretty interesting.

-- Moore Dinty Moore (dac@ccrtc.com), December 30, 1999.

As long as they prepare, I don't care.

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), December 30, 1999.

Whatever we call them, they're practicing JITJIC (Just In Time Just In Case)

-- Mikey2k (mikey2k@he.wont.eat.it), December 30, 1999.

BTDTJIC = Been There Done That Just In Case

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), December 30, 1999.

DCN = Ditsy Clueless Nitwit = Cherri

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 30, 1999.

Actually Cindy said: OMG - Oh My God - maybe those whackos were right! Pram

-- Pramada (pram108@yahoo.com), December 30, 1999.

The biggest response around here where I live is - "you don't really believe in all that stuff, do you?" DUH! So there aren't even very many OMG's yet. Maybe a few more WMJIC's - "well maybe - just in case". I wouldn't even dare tell them I also believe in weather wars and the ability of "someone" to make holographs appear in the sky - say - that look like - you know TBGITS.

-- judea rains (islandgirle@hotmail.com), December 31, 1999.

JITGIT - sounds a little better...more alliterative than GITJIT.

Of course, either is better than the GOTJA.

(God-Awful Troubles Just Appeared)

-- Robert A Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), December 31, 1999.