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The Romans did not have to face the change from BC to AD.  First off, BC is
"Before Christ (English)" and AD is "Anno Domini (Latin)" or "Year of our
Lord."  Second.  Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC on his way to the
Senate.  Third, the Romans kept a calendar which was based on the founding
of Rome, "Ab Urbe Contida."  The birth of Christ occurred in the Roman year
750.  (753 according to the scholar Dionysius Exiguus, who had been
commissioned by Pope John 1 to figure it out.  The former made a mistake in
his calculations.)

Apart from that, it was great.  :)  TGIF.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Jim Alexander [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Friday, 15 January, 1999 12:53 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        OT: Humor:  Y0K Problem

Y Zero K Problem

Translated from Latin scroll dated 2BC

Dear Cassius:

Are you still working on the Y zero K problem?  This change from BC to
AD is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't much time left.  I
don't know how people will cope with working the wrong way around.
Having been working happily downwards forever, now we have to start
thinking upwards.  You would think that someone would have thought of
it earlier and not left it to us to sort it all out at this last
minute.

I spoke to Caesar the other evening.  He was livid that Julius hadn't
done something about it when he was sorting out the calendar.  He said
he could see why Brutus turned nasty.  We called in Consultus, but he
simply said that continuing downwards using minus BC won't work and as
usual charged a fortune for doing nothing useful.  Surely, we will not
have to throw out all our hardware and start again?  Macrohard will
make yet another fortune out of this I suppose.

The money lenders are paranoid of course!  They have been told that all
usury rates will invert and they will have to pay their clients to take
out loans.  Its an ill wind....

As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an hourglass flowing
upwards.  We have heard that there are three wise men in the East who
have been working on the problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive
until it's all over.

I have heard that there are plans to stable all horses at midnight at
the turn of the year as there are fears that they will stop and try to
run backwards, causing immense damage to chariots and possible loss of
life.  Some say the world will cease to exist at the moment of
transition.  Anyway, we are still continuing to work on this blasted Y
zero K problem.  I will send a parchment to you if anything further
develops.

  If you have any ideas please let me know,

  Plutonius

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Jim Alexander   Longs Drug Stores
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