TEOTWAWKI & Happy New Year

[Blackdog]

I just wanted to take this chance to wish all of you a Happy New Year, New Century and New Millennium before TEOTWAWKI (The end of the world as we know it).

It will surely be the end of the world as we know it, but that's an ongoing process. The world today is different than the world we knew 10 or 20 years ago. When we stop growing and changing, we die. It's the natural order of things.

I'll raise my glass at midnight to toast the end of the old and the beginning of the new. Then I'm gonna kiss my wife, turn out the lights and go to bed. I have to work tomorrow. Some things will never change.

Nite all, and God Bless

Blackdog

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[Steven F]

Blackdog, Happy New Year to you also. It looks as if the world survived, so I reckon it's business as usual -- at least for another thousand years.

 

[Blackdog]

Steven,

Yeah, looks like we made it. No planes fell out of the sky, no nuclear mushrooms were on the horizon, the world wasn't plunged into darkness and my car started this morning.

I heard Y2K described today as a sucessful non-event. Seems the only disasters that occurred were alcohol related.

Happy New Year My Friend. May your knives be sharp for the next 1000 years.


Blackdog


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[X-Head]

To Craig, Blackdog, Old Engineer, and all the other GH Forumites, Happy New Year!

I for one am very relieved that Y2K so far has been a 'non-event,' and this is coming from one who was hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. Maybe deep down in my subconscious, I knew nothing would happen, since I bought my brother a bowling ball for Christmas instead of a case of MRE's or something else survival-related. How much use would a bowling ball be in TEOTWAWKI?

Hopefully, everything will continue to go smoothly. You guys know the worst thing about Y2K turning into TEOTWAWKI?--the fact that the WWIII's would never get finished!

 

[Craig Gottlieb]

Here's a question: What does it say about our society that people are actually ANGRY at the Y2K people because there wasn't a meltdown? I've been reading articles that these people are pissed off that "all this money and effort was spent, and nothing happened." While there were many opportunists that made a fortune off the Y2K bug, are these complainers whacked out, or do you think they have a point?

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[Steven F]

Apparently, Craig, these morons don't understand that the Y2K thing really was a big deal. A whole lot of people put in a whole lot of work beforehand to prevent the "meltdown" that the prophets of doom were predicting. And, let's face it, many of the people who were predicting global chaos and carnage either directly or indirectly profited from the spread of unfounded fear.