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Re: That word for a thousand-year period surfaces again...
Howard, on host 205.184.139.56
Friday, December 31, 1999, at 06:54:56
That word for a thousand-year period surfaces again... posted by codeman38 on Thursday, December 30, 1999, at 20:39:14:
> Currently at the top of the page, as I post this message, is an advertisement for some site reading "Wish someone a happy millenium"...
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> When will they *ever* learn? IT'S GOT *TWO* N'S! I even entered a question about it in Trivia Stampede-- is there any way to get statistics on the answers that have been given to specific questions, Sam? ;-)
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> And, besides, I'll make another linguistic rant while I'm in linguistic rant mode. I don't believe that, with our current life expectancy, someone could actually have "a happy millennium". Perhaps a happy TURN of the millennium...disirregardless of which year that actually happens. But a happy millennium? Sheesh, with our current technology, we can only live about a tenth of that long... :)
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> -- codeman"maybe we'll stop seeing the M-word so much by January...but it figures, it'll come back right before 2001"38
I keep hearing the question, "What would you like to see happen in the next millinnuim?" Well, at my age, anything, absolutely anything. Did I get enough n's in there?
Howard
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