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So I bought a bag of peanut M&Ms, and whoever is in charge of quality
control there at the Mars Candy Company is asleep at the switch! Only a
fraction of my M&Ms have Ms on them. In with all the Ms, I've got Ws, Es,
and even a bunch of 3s.

Have a Happy New Year, so to speak. See some of you Saturday.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 12:40 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: OT: "Official" start of new millennium

Personally, I take my standards regarding when the millennium starts from
the
Mars Candy Company (http://www.mars.com) -- although it took me a long time
to figure out what they meant when they kept saying that M&M's were the
"official" candy of the millennium.

The secret is right there in the word, "millennium", literally meaning
thousand years in Latin (mille + annum). The symbol for a thousand in Latin
is "M", and the year 1000, one thousand years ago, was marked as "M", thus
the little "MM" that's written on every M&M's piece can (and should be)
quite
readily be interpreted as 2000.

I consider that sufficiently good enough evidence for anyone.

Wirt Atmar