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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
- Message-ID: <11659@hogg.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 22:23:45 GMT
- References: <BxtIyL.LG2@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <721949208snz@muir.demon.co.uk> <1992Nov17.103050.29411@memex.co.uk>
- Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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- In article <1992Nov17.103050.29411@memex.co.uk> scott@memex.co.uk (Scott Williamson) writes:
- >In article <721949208snz@muir.demon.co.uk> malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk writes:
- >>
- >>Next argument - I say the first year of the 21st. century is 2001, not 2000
- >>which is the last year of the 20th. century.
- >
- >So what? When the party-poppers and champagne corks go off on 1/1/2000
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- ... and the ill-informed drunks start shouting "Happy New D/C/M" ...
- (and they will no matter what anyone says ...)
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- >are you going to be the one sitting in the corner drinking orange juice
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- I can't speak for Malcolm, but I celebrate every New Year with champagne,
- and 2000 will be no exception. I won't switch to orange juice just because
- it is not a New Decade. I didn't on 31 December 1989/1 January 1990.
-
- >saying "you're all wrong, stop celebrating"?
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- On the contrary, let them celebrate. The more rewarding it will be to
- celebrate the New Decade, New Century and New Millennium a year later,
- in a narrower circle of better informed people.
-
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- `Haud yer wheesht! Come oot o the man an gie him peace.' (The Glasgow Gospel)
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)
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