Y2K SOLVED!! Well..sort of...

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Y2K means different things to different people. For some, it was potential computer failures on NYE. For me, it means Year 2000, but I track computer incidents and will continue to do so throughout the entire year.

Now...for a solution, and I realize this is risky posting this (I have donned my full-font armor), but as my little nephew says: "A muppet baby's got to do what a muppet baby's got to do." ...out of the mouth of babes comes much wisdom. Anyway, here goes:

Y2K needs a new name! The term "Y2K" has got to go. Here's why...

Companies can't own up to Y2K glitches due to lawsuits and such; the media is in the middle, because without advertising--they're sunk; and the general public thinks it was over when the power stayed up on NYE. So, I have noticed that computer incidents occurring recently are under debate--Y2K or not Y2K--that is the question.

This could all be solved by ditching the term Y2K and calling it CRIME-Computer Related Incidents and Mysterious Errors. (Formerly Y2K...kind of like the artist formerly known as...well, you know).

This would get the support of the general public...people don't like the CRIME rate to be high. And since the word has another meaning...it would be like getting a little extra publicity for computer related glitches.

The trail blazers could clear their names because they would no longer be fighting Y2K...they would be fighting CRIME, and that could potentially change their status.

The Doomers and Polly's would both have to agree because it wasn't Y2K...it was a CRIME.

As for the Lurkers and Polloomers, it really wouldn't matter too much.

TimeBomb 2000 could still keep their name, although they could always start a sister board called CRIME Stoppers...they could say things like, "Let's take a BYTE out of CRIME" See? Kind of catchy...

Well, there you have it...Y2K solved...the magic bullet after all. =)

-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), January 08, 2000

Answers

Dee,

CRIME? Wouldn't it be CRIAME?

Sorry; gotta rib ya...

Peace,

Don

"Everything in this book may be wrong."

-- Shimoda (enlighten@me.com), January 08, 2000.


I LOVE it. Let's do it. Mousie

-- Mousie (mousie@mymousehole.com), January 08, 2000.

Mousie, That ole ex-hubby of yours really blew it...see your brain cells are growing in leaps and bounds and he lost one of the world's smartest wives. His loss... LOL =)

-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), January 08, 2000.

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