Thank you for that reminder, Jim.  For those who may not have had the
opportunity to enjoy Jim Trudeau's wisdom and humor, I'd like to re-post this
little gem that he sent to the list about 3 months before his death.  It's
especially poignant to re-read it now and realize that he quite possibly
suspected at the time that he would not be here when Y2K arrived.

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James L. Trudeau wrote:

Howdy,

 01-001-CNTL-RANT-PARA.
     So I finally get back from the shop floor where the dreaded y2k bug has
raised
      it's ugly head in PRODUCTION.  And after *I* had said production was
cool
      with the possible exception of some Quiz junk we would deal with on an
      as needed basis.  They were right, the report was wrong as could be
when
      it came to dates beyond 20000.  Got new compiled source listings,
heated
      up the debugger and had all ready to chase down the shop calendar
dragon.
      The report does not list the options that were given at runtime, and
it's
      interactively run, so off I hike to get the gory details.  After
watching and
      carefully noting the input parameters I returned to my desk and
reported
      to management that if the user types insisted on entering 1900 instead
of
      2000 then truly we had a problem.  GO TO 01-010-MO-IDIOCY.

 01-010-MO-IDIOCY.
      So the suggestion was that to avoid the year 2000 problem, that
everyone
      get together and agree that there would be no year 2000.  We would all
      just go straight to the year 2001.  GO TO 01-020-GOOD-GRIEF.

 01-020-GOOD-GRIEF.
*
*   this one has some touchy content and I am not up for starting flame wars
of
*   any kind.  Nor interested in starting a thread, nor even a comment.  But
there
*   it was, real world and put out on the table.
*
    The foundation of the year 2000 problems which we face were started by
the Jews.

    STOP RUN.

Jim - i'm not ready for the rest of this year - T.