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RE: Century not over till 2001

To: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>, "Kevin N. Andrews" <kevina@emji.net>
Subject: RE: Century not over till 2001
From: "Ken Gano" <triumphs@mcleodusa.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 23:33:00 -0600charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
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Reminds me of the joke:

Do you  know what caused the dark ages?

The Y1K bug.

kg

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Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 10:31 PM
To: Kevin N. Andrews
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Subject: Re: Century not over till 2001



"Kevin N. Andrews" wrote:
>
> The century doesn't end till 2001. Remember we started counting at 1 not
0.
> Kevin

Unfortunately, our forebearers in the Middle Ages, who weren't as good
at math as we, and who were even more caught up in millenial fever,
started counting at year 1000.... We just inherited the tendency from
them. <g>


Cheers.


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