We were all told that we were toast,
by code the old ones started;
but when midnight had come and gone,
we found we'd been pop-tarted.

So now we have to ask ourselves
could we have been mistaken?
Or are we simply premature
and in six months we're bacon?

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), January 04, 2000

Answers

Egg-celent!

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), January 04, 2000.

You biscuit back in the house, y'hear?

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), January 04, 2000.

A sticky dilemma proposes he,

At what point shall we be free?

Toast, Jam, or pop-tarts,

Shoot, I've no beans and no f**ts.

Oh well, the future remains to be.....

-- Robert A Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), January 04, 2000.

Good morning Jay! I see your creative "juices" are flowing today. Orange you glad we're still here with you? Don't start to waffle on us now!

on de rock

-- Walter (on de rock@northrock.bm), January 04, 2000.

The Pollies screaming 'You are shit'
Change facts just not one bit,
The IEE and Kossie too,
Believe we are deep in stew.

Although the 1st was not the end,
(And teccies all we must commend),
The lady fat is yet to sing,
We still don't know what March will bring.

The danger is we've dumped our load,
As Pollies loud both rant and goad,
But in the end the truth we'll see,
The middle road the facts will be.

The problem here, a simple fact,
Is that greed alone was the act,
That fixed the problems we didn't see,
And left the others alone to be.

So we're not quite toast here now in Jan,
But the bug is not quite in the can,
With all the cash that's slopping round,
I fear the bug has gone to gound.

If December comes with news real good,
Employment high and pleasant mood,
Economy good with failures slow,
I'll get my fork and eat some crow.

Until that time I'm keeping watch,
For all the fixes and the botch,
In case it proves the doomers case,
And everything goes to slower pace.

So doomer, polly, Get It too,
Hide your venom out of view,
We both might need each other yet,
The road and rubber have not quite met.

-- merville (merville@globalnet.co.uk), January 04, 2000.

... sorry about the formatting, I did press enter after each line, honest !!!!

-- merville (merville@globalnet.co.uk), January 04, 2000.

They'd like to think that we were wrong,
and fools to boot - for preppin'
But we've weaned from "just-in-time",
and lighter now we're steppin'!

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), January 04, 2000.

Walter! Top o' the mornin' to ya! How's things near the 75 degree meridian today? Weather here in Charleston is gorgeous!

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), January 04, 2000.

merville,
Nicely done!!!!

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), January 04, 2000.

Thank you. At least I have a touch of credibility left ;-)

-- merville (merville@globalnet.co.uk), January 04, 2000.

Once again Jay, it's a Bermuda-ful day! Back to work at 7:30 this AM. Sun is shining, 72 degrees, light 10 knot breeze. Have a good one!

on de rock

-- Walter (on de rock@northrock.bm), January 04, 2000.

Time to stop children, what's that sound? everybody look what's going round.

-- King Middleton (kingmidleton@yahoo.com), January 04, 2000.

And I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.

-- King Middleton (kingmiddleton@yahoo.com), January 04, 2000.

Your condition was in, but then it left. So it's outright now. But we shall see the sea the rock left behind when it returns what it left - if it doesn't turn out at first, you'll have to try, try again.

-- Robert A Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), January 04, 2000.

There you go, man!
Keep as cool as you possibly can!
Face miles and miles and piles of trials with smiles.....it riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave.....
Moody Blues - A Question of Balance

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), January 04, 2000.

Come writers and critics who prophecie with your pen
And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'

Bob Dylan - The times they are a-changin

-- King Middleton (kingmiddleton@yahoo.com), January 04, 2000.

Gotta get back to work. I have a mellinium bug to chase down.

-- King Middleton (kingmiddleton@yahoo.com), January 04, 2000.

Otter be-an 'ornry Fruitcake Thread roun heah somewhere.

Jes pullet an see if de Clown Car she be comin roun de mountain when she comes...

C

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), January 04, 2000.

Thanks Jay and all! First good laugh of the day, and I needed it!

-- Mumsie (shezdremn@aol.com), January 04, 2000.