A phone call that begins just before midnight on December 31, 1999, and ends moments later on January 1, 2000, could be billed as a gabfest that droned on for 99 years.

-- Batman (batcave@gotham.city), November 15, 1999

Answers

Are you the guy in the picture at the bottom of this thread?

-- Boy Wonder (robin@the.cave), November 15, 1999.

OK, I'll just make local calls...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), November 15, 1999.

Naw that's not me. That's what happen when you 'mess' with me....

batman

-- batman (batcave@gotham.city), November 15, 1999.

Maybe we should just be on the internet...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), November 15, 1999.

Wait a minute, that would be a -99 year call. Think of the huge _credit_ you will get on your bill. At say $.10 per minute would be a credit of over $525,000 dollars.

Mikey2k

-- Mikey2 (mikey2k@he.wont.eat.it), November 15, 1999.

Nah.... I won't make any long distance phone calls but just for the heck of it I am going to pick up the phone at 12:00 a.m. just to see if there is a dial tone.

Now if you want to talk hoarding, I plan to hoard my share of the communications industry by being online all day December 31 and January 1 so that I won't take a chance on getting a busy signal. That is if the net, phones and power all stay up which I am figuring or at least hoping they will.

I am starting to like that word HOARD. Yes indeed I am a hoarder. A hoarder a hoarder a hoarder. I hoard food, guns, ammo, cash, fuel, and of course WATER. Now my accusers can say that I am a hoarder of phone line availability.

-- the Virginian (1@1.com), November 15, 1999.

Virginian,

ROFLMAO---Hoarder Power

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), November 16, 1999.

Virginian: thanks for that. Been a long time since I have laughed out loud while on the computer.

I'm a Hoarder Girl. Hey, that feels good to admit.

I HOARD!!!! I HOARD!!!! PASTA, RICE, BEANS, CANNED FOOD OUT THE YIN- YANG!!!! WATER!!!! AMMO!! (Well, ok, not exactly enough to call it hoarding, but...)WARM CLOTHES!!! BLANKETS!!! FIREWOOD!!! KEROSENE! FLASHLIGHTS!!! I HAVE 5 MILLION MATCHES!!!!!!

Whew. Feel much better.

I think all of this is getting to me.

-- preparing (preparing@home.com), November 16, 1999.

Sooo, what you are saying is that this is a Hoard House?

Are we all studying Hoardiculture?

After the rollover, are we all gonna throw parties and serve Hoard-erves?

Whoops, gotta go, just Hoard the phone ring!

-- pizzaman (cjwarner@yahoo.com), November 16, 1999.

Guys, come over here... No, it's okay, c'mon over... A little closer... It's okay, I won't hurt you... A little closer..........

SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!

STRAIGHTEN UP, DAMMIT! YOU HOARDES ARE STARTING TO ENJOY THIS ***WAY*** TOO MUCH!!!!! (It's okay, doctor. Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder, with a bad case of the puns.)

-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), November 16, 1999.

This is perfectly possible, although it's unlikely to happen on a network.

An interesting point is that it wouldn't be -99 years anyway. If it happened, it would most likely be (the biggest unsigned number that the software could handle - 99 years). In fact, for a 16 bit unsigned integer second counter, you'd get billed for effectively random times, some of which would obviously be too long, and some of which would not.

In general, one of the dangers of Y2K is that the effects of data corruption AREN'T ALWAYS OBVIOUS.

-- Colin MacDonald (roborogerborg@yahoo.com), November 16, 1999.

HunhHunhHunhHunhHunh!!! He said HOARD....HunhHunhHunh!!!

HehHehHeh!!!Yesss!!!Hoard!!!Heh-Heh-Heh-HehHeh!!!

-- Beavis and Butthead (still@the.TV), November 16, 1999.

Time to call the Hoarder Patrol.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), November 16, 1999.

To hoard, or not to hoard. THAT is the question....

-- willy (will@shake.speare), November 16, 1999.