THE Y1K CRISIS
Canterbury, England. A.D. 999.
An atmosphere close to panic prevails today throughout Europe as the millennial year 1000 approaches, bringing with it the so-called Y1K Bug, a menace which, until recently, hardly anyone had ever heard of. Prophets of doom are warning that the entire fabric of Western Civilization, based as it now is upon monastic computations, could collapse, and that there is simply not enough time left to fix the problem.
Just how did this disaster-in-the-making ever arise? Why did no one anticipate that a change from a three-digit to a four-digit year would throw into total disarray all liturgical chants and all metrical verse in which any date is mentioned? Every formulaic hymn, prayer, ceremony and incantation dealing with dated events will have to be re-written to accommodate three extra syllables.
All tabular chronologies with three-space year columns, maintained for generations by scribes using carefully hand-ruled lines on vellum sheets, will now have to be converted to four-space columns, at enormous cost. In the meantime, the validity of every official event, from baptisms to burials, from confirmations to coronations, may be called into question.
We should have seen it coming , says Brother Cedric of St. Michael Abbey, here in Canterbury. What worries me most is that THOUSAND contains the word THOU, which occurs in nearly all our prayers, and of course always refers to God. Using it now in the name of the year will seem almost blasphemous, and is bound to cause terrible confusion. Of course, we could always use Latin, but that might be even worse — The Latin word for Thousand is Mile which is the same as the Latin for mile. We wont know whether we are talking about time or distance!
Stonemasons are already reported threatening to demand a proportional pay increase for having to carve an extra numeral in all dates on tombstones, cornerstones and monuments. Together with its inevitable ripple effects, this alone could plunge the hitherto-stable medieval economy into chaos.
A conference of clerics has been called at Winchester to discuss the entire issue, but doomsayers are convinced that the matter is now one of personal survival.
Everybody on earth dies and goes to heaven. God comes and says I want the men to make two lines. One line for the men that dominated their women on earth and the other line for the men that were dominated by their women. Also, I want all the women to go with St Peter.
Said and done, the next time God looked the women are gone and there are two lines. The line of the men that were dominated by their women was 100 miles long, and in the line of men that dominated their women, there was only one man.
God got mad and said, You men should be ashamed of yourselves. I created you in my image and you were all whipped by your mates. Look at the only one of my sons that stood up and made me proud. Learn from him! Tell them my son, how did you manage to be the only one in this line?
And the man replied, I dont know, my wife told me to stand here
A merchant captain and several of his officers were returning to the ship after an evening of partying ashore.
As they climbed the gangway, the captain threw up all over himself. Pointing to an apprentice seaman above, him he shouted, Give that man five days in the brig for vomiting!
The following morning the captain was checking the log and saw that the young seaman had been sentenced to ten days and asked the chief mate why.
Well Sir, when we got you undressed we found that hed also took a dump in your pants.
Dear GOD, Did you mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident? -Norma
Dear GOD, Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why dont You just keep the ones You have now? -Jane
Dear GOD, Who draws the lines around the countries? -Nan
Dear GOD, I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church. Is that okay? -Neil
Dear GOD, What does it mean You are a Jealous God? I thought You had everything. -Jane
Dear God, Did you really mean do unto others as they do unto you? Because if you did, then Im going to fix my brother! -Darla
Dear GOD, Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy. -Joyce
Dear GOD, It rained for our whole vacation and is my father mad! He said some things about You that people are not supposed to say, but I hope You will not hurt him anyway. Your friend. (But I am not going to tell you who I am)
Dear GOD, Why is Sunday school on Sunday? I thought it was supposed to be our day of rest. -Tom L.
Dear GOD, Please send me a pony. I never asked for anything before, You can look it up. -Bruce
Dear GOD, My brother is a rat. You should give him a tail. Ha ha. -Danny
Dear GOD, Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother. -Larry
Dear GOD, I want to be just like my Daddy when I get big, but not with so much hair all over. -Sam
Dear GOD, I think the stapler is one of your goodest inventions. -Ruth M.
Dear GOD, I bet it is very hard for You to love all of everybody in the whole world. There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it. -Nan
Dear GOD, If You watch me in church Sunday, Ill show You my new shoes. -Mickey D.
Dear GOD, I would like to live 900 years like the guy in the Bible. Love, Chris
Dear GOD, We read Thomas Edison made light. But in school they said You did it. So I bet he stoled your idea. Sincerely, Donna
Dear Sir Mix-A-Lot:
I am an elderly woman who lives alone. There are no senior centers in my area, and I live on a fixed income. I would love to get out and meet more people, but there seem to be very few options for someone my age. Is there some social outlet I dont know about?
— Lonely In Laramie
Dear Lonely,
Kick it, lick it, watch where I stick it
Face down while I punch your ticket
Ride my king cobra round the world
Wanna do ya girl
Want ya pettin my big black cat
Blackberry jam dont shake like that
If your bootys extra-large, Ill bring the funk
Wanna see some extra luggage in the trunk.
Dear Sir Mix-A-Lot:
I am preparing an elegant dinner party for the holidays with approximately 30 guests. Many on the guest list have made special requests regarding next to whom they wish to be seated. Is it my job to accommodate as many requests as possible, or is my time better spent on the other details of the party?
— Baffled In Baldwin
Dear Baffled,
Drop em and shake it, girl, ya wont break it
Leave enough for me to take it
Mix likes to get down and make it
When the girl is large and naked
Talkin bout a booty with meat on the bones
Two scoops of chocolate, hold the cones
Wanna hit your pleasure zone
Mix-A-Lot gonna make you moan.
Dear Sir Mix-A-Lot:
If you ask me, your response to Torn In Tuscaloosa was way off the mark. If her boyfriend doesnt want to get off the couch and start working for a living, hes nothing but a no-good, selfish moocher. That girl should drop him like a hot potato!
— Peeved In Peekskill
Dear Peeved,
Whos afraid of my big bad weenie
Rub it and see if its got a genie
Gonna make disappear this 10-inch zucchini
Just like Houdini
M-I-X to the A-L-O-T rappin
Wanna see yo butt cheeks flappin
Mix want the honeys with the big back doors
So drop them drawers, whores. Unh.
Childrens worst book titles!
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You might be a redneck if…
Youve ever made change in the offering plate.
Microsoft announced today that the official release date for the new operating system Windows 2000 will be delayed until the second quarter of
1901.
She pulled over so she could watch it turn
La maestra en la escuela de Jaimito:
A ver, mañana me traéis todos un objeto relacionado con la medicina.
Al dÃa siguiente: ¿A ver, Manolito, que has traÃdo?
Pues unas tiritas señorita.
A, muy bien, ¿quien te las ha dado?
Mi mamá.
¿Y qué te ha dicho?
Que sirve para curar las heridas y los golpes.
Muy bien, Manolito. A ver, tu, Jaimito, ¿Que has traÃdo?
Una bombona de oxÃgeno.
Ahhh, que bien, ¿quien te la ha dado?
Mi abuelito, señorita.
¿Y que te ha dicho?
Joputaaaa, que me ahogoooooo….