no i don't really think you people are doomsdayers, just thought that subject line might get more responses that way. i'm writing a report for family and friends, and need another word for what the public call those who plan and prepare for y2k. gloom and doomer, etc...

by the way i'm making plans, and am hoping with this report, my family and friends will wake up and also prepare. i don't honestly believe most will, but all i can do is try.

so what would i be considered? doomsdayer, Y2Krazy...? thanks for all responses

-- jane doe (someone@somewhere.com), August 02, 1999

Answers

a "responsible citizen"

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), August 02, 1999.

Prepared, savvy, lucky, optimists...

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), August 02, 1999.

How about "Prudent Citizens"?

Or "People willing to take responsibility for their lives"?

-- (dot@dot.dot), August 02, 1999.

Preppies ;^)

-- optimists (want@to.survive), August 02, 1999.

Rational Pessimist

-- Jon Williamson (jwilliamson003@sprintmail.com), August 02, 1999.

SNIP

"no i don't really think you people are doomsdayers, just thought that subject line might get more responses"

ENDSNIP

Hey guess what Doomers, you just violated your own rule of not feeding the trolls!

And on top of that you actually call this one a "responsible citizen", "prudent preparer".

Man oh man, the hypocrisy around here is enough to reach up into heaven and strangle the angels with the stench of it.

-- (X@X@X@.X), August 02, 1999.

Jane Doe,

How about "those preparing for an uncertain future"

...or these terms from FEMA...

http://www.fema.gov/y2k/ccmp.htm

"emergency managers" "emergency management community"

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), August 02, 1999.

Realists

-- facing the facts (preps@head.start), August 02, 1999.

I have TWO terms:

SCAPEGOAT and TARGET. But let's not forget the ever popular "tinfoil hat survivalist nutcase wacko". (I'm sorry, too many?)

(I'm prepared for 6 months....)

-- Dennis (djolson@pressenter.com), August 02, 1999.

anti-sheep

-- CygnusXI (noburnt@toast.net), August 02, 1999.

De Jager said it awhile back....enemies of the people...

or,

panic-mongerers, millennial flakes, propaganda-deficient cancers on the Public's immune to reality system, those who refuse to see the wisdom of the crowd, those who refuse to be lemmings, anti-ostriches (although my son pointed out that ostriches are actually looking for water with their heads buried in the sand???),

-- we are (enemies@thepeople.commie), August 02, 1999.

How's about: THE SMART ONES, or RUGGED INDIVIDUALISTS, or THE COMING SURVIVORS, or INDEPENDENT THINKERS, or THE ONLY PEOPLE LEFT WHO ACTUALLY THINK FOR THEMSELVES AFTER GATHERING AS MUCH INFORMATION AS THEY CAN AND NOT PROPAGANDA SPOONFED BY THE GOVERNMENT OR ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA, or FOLKS WHO KNOW THE S**T HAS TO HIT THE FAN SOON AND DON'T WANT TO GET HIT BY THE SPRAY, or THE ONES WHO DON'T THINK Y2K WILL BE A PROBLEM FOR ANYONE EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHO LIKE TO EAT, or THOSE WHO ARE WAITING FOR MOTHER NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY TO THIN THE HERD THRU NATURAL SELECTION, you catch my drift by NOW , right !!!! GOOD LUCK.

p.s. ....or THOSE WHO AREN'T WAITING FOR BILLY GATES TO FIX THE PROBLEM.....

-- synonym (three day max@ NOT.com), August 02, 1999.

How about: "Mentally Ill"

or

"I can hardly wait until I shoot my first human being..."

People who want to survive Y2K should be prepared to kill. -- (its@coming.soon), July 27, 1999.

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), August 02, 1999.

Y2K Pro said "...how about 'mentally ill'?"

Well, he ought to know.... (Always ask an EXPERT is my motto)

-- Dennis (djolson@pressenter.com), August 02, 1999.

Prudent.

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), August 02, 1999.

Enthusiasts :) y2kaware :) But I'v heard nuts,crazy,stupid ):

-- Rooster Cogburn (Gotitlate@wow.com), August 02, 1999.

Wise

-- owl (eagle@soars.above), August 02, 1999.

am trying to make the point in my report that i don't care what you think of me ( be it panic-mongerer, skeptic, millinnial flake, doomsdayer, etc...). i already know that is how i am labeled. i would read a "hey doomsdayer" headline, and know someone was referring to someone like me, because that's how they see me. but i'm not predicting doom. i'm not predicting anything. i am, however, asking lots of questions in order to make one THINK. and hence, i have been labled. can anyone agree with this?

-- jane doe (someone@somewhere.com), August 02, 1999.

Jane, you might want to take a look at Faith's letter to her family. I thought it was very good. Link

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), August 02, 1999.

Noah?

-- hee (hee@hee.hee), August 02, 1999.

Jane, are you related to Al-d perhaps?

-- For (your@info.com), August 02, 1999.

Job

-- too tested (trials@tribulations.more), August 02, 1999.

Jane: Do you like to mudwrestle?

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), August 02, 1999.

Boy Scouts (motto "Be Prepared!")

-- (snowleopard6@webtv.net), August 02, 1999.

Ready, as in Y2K ready. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), August 02, 1999.

Don"t worry about it X@X@X@.X you won"t be up there anyway!

-- dESERTJ98 (JTURNER@PTWAY.COM), August 02, 1999.

"doomslayers" ? Preparing for a soft fall from grace.

-- anon (anon@anon.com), August 02, 1999.

Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr near Monterey, California

Risk Minimizers

-- RiskDancr (addy.available@my.webpage.neener.autospammers--regrets.greenspun), August 02, 1999.

Prudent Prepared People of the Planet of the Pious Pirates

-- Butt Nugget (nubuttet@better.mousetrap), August 02, 1999.

"The next generation."

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), August 02, 1999.

Oh I see, I guess it's okay for trolls to do their thing as long as they troll in the name of Doom.

assheads!

-- (X@X@X.X@), August 03, 1999.

Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr near Monterey, California

People and organizations that are studying and preparing for unknown but inevitable disruptions are Y2K-Adaptives. DGIs are Non Y2K-Adaptives. DWGIs are in Y2K-Denial.

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage.neener.autospammers--regrets.greenspun), August 04, 1999.