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- From: okes@essex.ac.uk (Simon Oke)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?, Now: 2000/2001
- Message-ID: <OKES.92Nov17193535@SunLab43.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 19:35:35 GMT
- References: <BxtIyL.LG2@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <721949208snz@muir.demon.co.uk>
- <28248@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.101210.11982@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- In-reply-to: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk's message of 17 Nov 92 10:12:10 GMT
-
- In article <1992Nov17.101210.11982@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
-
- | In article <28248@castle.ed.ac.uk> rwb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Bingham) writes:
- | >In <721949208snz@muir.demon.co.uk> malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk ("Malcolm S. Muir") writes:
- | >
- | >I agree with you Malcolm, but you can bet the press & TV will have us
- | >all celebrating the end of the century on 31st December 1999...
- |
- | It'll be horrendous. In addition to all the usual "look back over the
- | year" programmes, there'll be "look back over the decade" and "look
- | back over the century" programmes. I wonder if anyone will dare
- | attempt a "look back over the millennium" programme though? ("We've
- | discovered some rare archive footage of the Battle of Hastings...")
- |
- Yes, but because there is so much disagreement, we can have TWO
- "new milennium" parties!
- (And just think of the hangover you can have - 1000 times your common-or-garden
- "new year" hangover!)
-
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