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- From: cah@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ceri Hopkins)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
- Message-ID: <CAH.92Nov17192855@fat-controller.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 19:28:55 GMT
- References: <BxtIyL.LG2@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <721949208snz@muir.demon.co.uk>
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- In-Reply-To: ccdarg@dct.ac.uk's message of 17 Nov 92 12:38:36 GMT
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- >>>>> On 17 Nov 92 12:38:36 GMT, ccdarg@dct.ac.uk (Alan Greig) said:
-
- Alan> In article <1992Nov17.121155.1432@dct.ac.uk>, mcramm@dct.ac.uk (McRamm) writes:
-
- > we won't have a load of ill-informed drunks shouting happy new Millenium at
- > Midnight on Dec. 31 1999.
-
- Alan> I fully intend to be one of the ill-informed drunks on 31/12/99. I also
- Alan> intend being a slightly better informed drunk on 31/12/2000 :-)
-
- Good on you Alan.
-
- Who are these people who celebrate the "new millenium" or for that
- matter the "new century" or "new decade" anyway (well -- we all know
- them don't we)? Surely it's more logical (for hedonists) to place
- importance on those things that occur more frequently in one's
- lifetime, e.g. Fridays (as it happens Dec. 31 1991 is a Friday). Or on
- a slightly longer timescale, one's 30th, 40th, etc. birthday, since I
- don't see my lifetime fitting into a conceptually significant slot in
- the calendar as I know it.
-
- Of course there is the counter argument that infrequent events should
- be celebrated since our mortality will prevent us from experiencing
- said things again. However I would consider such things as Halley's
- Comet, complete solar eclipse over Cornwall, etc. to be more deserving
- than calendar dates.
-
- Anyway, imagine the scene...
-
- 00.00 01 Jan 2000 -- scene of mass revelry...
-
- IIDs (Ill-informed drunks): "Happy New Year, Happy New Decade, Happy
- New Millenium!"
- Angus M. Marshall (McRamm): "Actually..."
- IIDs: "F*** you"
-
- NB. To be fair to Angus he did acknowledge that he is a member of the
- UK Pedants Association.
-
- Ceri
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- Ceri Hopkins
- School of Computer Science C.A.Hopkins@Cs.Bham.Ac.Uk
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