When I was driving the other night, a toad jumped out in front of my car. Just a bump in the road...to me. To the toad, however, it was a bit more...

When people tell me that Y2K will be but a bump in the road, I'll remember that toad...and go buy another can or three of SPAM.

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), June 07, 1999

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SPAM..... Stands for "Something poseing as meat."

-- smfdoc (smfdoc@aol.com), June 08, 1999.

"How bad a bump in the road is, depends on what you're driving."

Excerpts from recent Senate hearing:

SENATOR BENNETT: ...

There's been some criticism--I guess it's probably justified--that at one point I did use the phrase, We've now solved this to the extent that nationally, it's going to be a bump in the road,' and somebody said, How can you say that in view of the other comments you've made?'

A member of the staff saved me. He said, "How bad a bump in the road is, depends on what you're driving."

"If you hit a bump in the road in a small two seater sports vehicle at 60 miles per hour, it can throw you out of the seat and into the side of the road and can produce very serious injury. On the other hand, if you're going over a bump in the road in an 18 wheeler, at maybe 30 miles an hour, you don't notice it that much."

So each of you must take charge of your own Y2k situation and see how you survive where we are.

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-- Cheryl (Transplant@Oregon.com), June 08, 1999.

MM you crack me up! Now consider this. We are driving at a fixed rate of SPEED so that's not a variable, we can't personaly fix the computer software or firmware, which is the SIZE of the bump so that's not a CONTROLABLE variable. That leaves us with how we LAND on the other side of the bump. Let's hope it's an emaciated toad, ok?

Some day are just plain BETTER than others, ya know? Keep it up

-- MidwestMike_ (midwestmike_@hotmail.com), June 08, 1999.