Why no entries from other Countries? Just thought I would mention the "Oddity".

-- Princess Flicker Faith (looking@answers.com), November 30, 1999

Answers

Heh, a virtual Skinner Box? Cool! But I don't remember signing a consent to participate in a research project, so that means it would have to be military test reverse-engineered from ufo technology.

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), November 30, 1999.

Princess:

nice monikor... I'm emailing you all from Prince George, British Columbia, CANADA.

Lots of nice folks from all over here!

-- (Kurt.Borzel@gems8.gov.bc.ca), November 30, 1999.

I travel all over the world (have a tour company) and very few people give Y2K a thought. I've talked and talked and some have seen the wisdom of preparing for the possibility. But most are more complacent than our masses. I moderate another list and only have a few from Australia on that one besides the US.

We do have one person on this list from Denmark though. Sheri http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin

-- Sheri (wncy2k@nccn.net), November 30, 1999.

My dear Exalted Princess. There are plenty of individuals on this forum from other countries. We have Aussies, Canadians, British, some folks that live in Japan(but are American citizens). occasionally someone chimes in from the Central or South American clime. Primarily the reason that most of the folks on here are American is the simple fact that the basic language on THIS forum is English (or some facimile thereof). That pretty much limits the input from other countries. Not that they have such poor command of the english language (or that some here have such great command of same) but that they prefer to be comfortable in their own language. Consequently

-- Lobo (atthelair@yahoo.com), November 30, 1999.

HEY! we gots Jawjah'ns here, too!

"never again" zog

-- zog (zzoggy@yahoo.com), November 30, 1999.

Let me finish that thought for you Lobo:

Consequently, since the "No English Spoken Here" used on this forum is a pidgin of the most advanced technacal terms, e-mail ACRONYMS, troll insults, Yankee colloquialism and already FUBAR formatting and typos, and since anyone who can't sling the slang gets FLAMED instantly, most prefer to llurk. Witness Colin MacDonald -- A Brit I believe -- who took himself a week or two of agonizingly apologetic posts, before he fit into the groove.

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-- SH (squirrel@huntr.com), November 30, 1999.

Have you met the King of Spain yet?

-- FLAME AWAY (BLehman202@aol.com), November 30, 1999.

HEY SH;

Easy with the name. ;)

-- FLAME AWAY (BLehman202@aol.com), November 30, 1999.

Sheesh, now I can get real paranoid! Pleeze, direct one of those "different speaking humans to my door step. I will cook them up a batch of whatever. You are lying, and you know it.

-- Princess Flicker Faith (looking@answers.com), November 30, 1999.

Yeah, I've noticed it too, Princess. Just Americans here.

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 01, 1999.

I'm a Canadian citizen living in Hong Kong.

Any other non-U.S. types out there?

-- Midas (midas_mulligan_2000@yahoo.com), December 01, 1999.

I'm an Aussie that lives in Australia :-)

I've been posting various bits and pieces to this forum for around the last 9 months. I know of several other Aussies and New Zealanders that watch this forum as well.

Regards, Simon

-- Simon Richards (simon@wair.com.au), December 01, 1999.

What would be the point of foreigners Getting It? They don't have the 2nd Amendment.

-- Ocotillo (peeling@out.===), December 01, 1999.

Speaking of Japan, has anyone seen our old friend PNG lately? <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), December 01, 1999.

He still lives.

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), December 01, 1999.

Northern European Migrant to Oz.

Watched this forum daily for 12 months. Great info base and congratz to all contributors.

Sorry to say that family overseas do not 'get it'. Most locals don't understand either, but some twigged to it when the power substation at Bordertown crashed most of South Australia a few weeks ago. A Y2K test went troppo, so rumour has it.

In for a long hot summer. Blistering today. The Emergency Services etc are on standby notice for the turn-over.
Regards from Zaadz...

-- Pieter (zaadz@icisp.net.au), December 01, 1999.

Yes Pieter, it is tooo hot!.

-- number six (!@!.com.au), December 01, 1999.

Sheesh! Why don't you guys go outside, face the east coast of the USA, and blow real hard. Maybe some of that heat will make it here! We've got a snow storm brewing in the Atlantic, and wind-chill near 0 tonight. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), December 01, 1999.

I'm an Irishman with dual nationality (Irish and British) living in Denmark.

"Go mbeimid beo ag an am seo arms" (Gaelic prayer - "may we all be still alive at this time next year").

-- Risteard MacThomais (uachtaran@ireland.com), December 01, 1999.

I'm an American living in Italy. I'll be here for the rollover and a year beyond....

Hey Colin, we're due to go to London next..maybe I'll see you there?

:0)

Ynott

-- Ynott (Ynott@incorruptible.com), December 01, 1999.

Hi Ynott. Sure, I live in the lazy London suburb called Scotland, about 400 miles to the north of the River Thames, so chance are we'll bump into each other. ;)

-- Colin MacDonald (roborogerborg@yahoo.com), December 01, 1999.

Colin, you dog you, and you didn't come to see me when I was there on vacation with my family two months ago? Did the fact that we needed a babysitter have anything to do with it? ;-)

Scotland sounds lovely, and I intend to visit there too. I've been doing my family tree and am trying to trace our ancestry in Ireland. I hear that is another "burb" of London, HA!

-- Ynott (Ynott@incorruptible.com), December 01, 1999.

He's a Scott! Hallooo, Mr. Scott! That explains everything. Silly me, here I was thinking you were a Limey. A warm welcome to ya, Scotty, from an uprooted, transplanted descendant of the Clan Ross.

There're lots more foreigners here than your casual inspection has revealed, Princess.

And, yes, THEY are listening. And, yes, THEY do impart a bit of 'english' to us now and then. Spin us around, and see which way we bounce. Eight ball in the side pocket.

Godspeed to all, stripes and solids, foreign and domestic.

-- Pinkrock (aphotonboy@aol.com), December 01, 1999.

Hi YNOTT,

Irish Ancestry? You mean you are my long-lost cousin?

Both London and Scotland are suburbs of Ireland, you know.

-- Risteard MacThomais (uachtaran@ireland.com), December 01, 1999.

Aye, I've heard the same thing, Risteard! My dad's side is loaded with Irish last names, but I am having trouble locating exactly where in Ireland they debarked from....I'll keep looking. It is FASCINATING! But as you are intelligent enough to post here, we MUST be related, don't you think? :-)

So far, I can trace my ancestors back to 1689 in Basel, Switzerland and a little town that WAS in Germany and NOW is on the edge of Czechoslovakia! Once I can figure out where the Irish forefather landed, I can trace that one too...

Do you babysit? This could become akin to KOS's , "Do you mudwrestle?" line....Ha!

-- Ynott (Ynott@incorruptible.com), December 01, 1999.

Probably related to me at some point there Ynott, I can directly trace the Family lineage/history in Ireland to the year 574 B.C. (long time ago eh?)

-- Billy Boy (Rakkasan101st@aol.com), December 01, 1999.

I'm in South Africa, hot here too. People are not very aware of Y2K, I can't imagine that anyone (except for me) is doing any stockpiling.

-- (indigoseahorse@hotmail.com), December 01, 1999.

I'm from Louwzy-ana originally, but moved to Kentucky since with the way things are backwards here, Y2K won't hit for another 40 years or so.

Tick Tock Kook

-- Y2Kook (Y2Kook@usa.net), December 01, 1999.

And then there are all those Texans.

Texas - it's a whole nother place.

-- Greybear (greybaear@home.com), December 01, 1999.

Clan McLellan reporting in...

-- Deb M. (vmcclell@columbus.rr.com), December 01, 1999.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

This week alone I've seen people from India, Germany and The Netherlands. I'm sure there've been lots more (I don't really make a point of noticing them) -- those are just the ones I talked to.

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), December 01, 1999.

Princess, now do you believe me?

-- Lobo (atthelair@yahoo.com), December 01, 1999.