Re: 2000 is too early!

["Brad Houser" <bhouser@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes Allan, you are right. Everyone who thinks the otherwise is wrong. We
didn't
know how to count back then. (The Romans had no symbol for zero).

There is something about seeing all those digits roll over, like when my
first car,
a '67 Beetle, rolled over from 99,999 miles to 00,000. (I stopped in the
middle
of Kansas and took a picture of it, back in 1976.) For party value, and to
be
consistent, this millenia can begin at 2000. Of course, the truth won't come
out and be realized until after the champagne corks have been thrown/put
away.
("Where were you at the new millenium Grampa?." "I was at work making sure
the computers wouldn't crash for the first one. For the real millenium, I
was at
home to avoid the drunken drivers.")

So it will take a year for the world to realize that the big party (1999 to
2000)
was early, and there will be another big party (2000 to 2001)!

Brad
- -----Original Message-----
From: Allan Williams <allanw@domain.elided>
To: bmw@domain.elided <bmw@domain.elided>
Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: bmw-digest V9 #785


>Some of you may not realise and might want to know the following:
>
>The year 2000 will be the last year of the century - 2001 will be the first
>of the next .


<snippage>

>The whole world will celebrate the end of 1999 years since the death of
>Jesus (the point defined as 0) instead of 2000 years they think they will
be
>celebrating.

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