Its obvious, the Pollies are panicking. They are unsure of what y2k will bring, so instead of just monitoring this forum they have to scream "NOTHING WILL HAPPEN !!!" even though in the pit of their stomach they have the very unpleasant feeling.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), December 23, 1999

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Actually the reason I'm so mad today is some person is prostituting a human life out indiscriminantely on the internet and it makes me sick.

I don't know about the rest of the web, I'm not paying attention. But it seems to me that IF things we actually getting bad then there wouldn't be any reason to waste time on the internet shouting "nothing is wrong", becasue they'd all be out at the grocery stores ripping food off the shelves and rioting.

You can't have it both ways you know. Either they don't care or they do care. If they do care then there would be a frantic rush to prepare for doomsday.... if they didn't care they sure as hell wouldn't be on the chat rooms screaming it.

-- (*********@mindspring.com), December 23, 1999.

That polly is screaming like a jailhouse punk at a coming out party in the showers!!

-- Porky (Porky@in.cellblockD), December 23, 1999.

Whew! That's a relief, now I can get some sleep.

-- Porky (Porky@in.cellblockD), December 22, 1999.

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Another witty remark from the poster boy of backwater hicks. This absolutely proves that the quality of regular TB2K forum "contributors" here is something to be scraped off the bottom of your shoe and left on the sidewalk. Of course, there are other things that can happen to shit. Just ask Inspector Callahan.

-- (not@staying.here), December 23, 1999.

I actually feel sorry for the Pollies. I know how they feel. Let me explain.

Just this week, I experienced the "fear induced denial resulting in the inability to act" phenomenon while trying to decide whether or not I should secure a room in my house with plastic to avoid (possible) exposure to toxic gas from a nearby chemical plant.

As I walked around contemplating the job, I kept telling myself, "This is crazy. Just look how I'm acting. Look what I'm about to do. I'm fixing to cover a whole room with plastic!"

After four false starts, I finally "threw caution to the wind" and proceeded to get started. I'm now almost finished.

In retrospect, I can understand how Pollies can walk by hundreds of gallons of water without picking up a few and placing them in their cart. It's "fear of acting"...the same fear that almost prevented me from securing one little room in our house...which may turn out to save the lives of my family. I had the materials, I had the know-how. I had the time. And I almost didn't act.

Overcome your fear, Pollies. You have but 8 days left. Just do it. Stop thinking about it and just do it. Do it now.

-- GoldReal (GoldReal@aol.com), December 23, 1999.

Goldreal:

Exactly. I felt the same way about buying books that would help me with a serious "rebuilding". Doing so made it too "real". Have had other such moments, have overcome them, but they do hit at the oddest moments.

-- mushroom (mushroom_bs_too_long@yahoo.com), December 23, 1999.

Porky, you're the kind of slob from 'Deliverance' who obviously has taken it up the keester one too many times. The only person you see eye to eye with is your proctologist.

As for 'real' and the gang...wow,how pathetic. The world isn't panicking. Instead, it's laughing at you. Only a few more days until the shroud is ripped off and your sniveling, cowardly demeanor is out there for the world to see.

-- Bad Company (johnny@shootingstar.com), December 23, 1999.

Bad Company, Who scraped you off their shoe and left you here?

-- Good Company (You'reareal@ass.com), December 23, 1999.

Bad Company, your bravado is a false front, hiding your fear that you are wrong and the "doomers" are right. You know you really don't have a clue about what is to come in the next few weeks and months. You are afraid, very afraid, that you are WRONG.

-- Look Out (lookout@hereitcomes.com), December 23, 1999.

GC, wow. That hurt. Next year, when you hit the high school, I'll bet you really will have some hard-hitting words...more than just 4 or 5 letters...in your arsenal. Now into your room for a little Backstreet Boys!

As for being 'scared', yeah, 2 years ago, when I was doing nightly reading here and on scary Gary's site, I was really scared. And a doomer. But time marches on and the call to maintaining one's intellect entails constant education. Over the past two years, I've noted a lot of progress and a lot of holes being shot into false premises.

Apparently, your intellect stopped after reading the opening lines of doom. Too bad, you could have broadened your horizons dramatically if only you'd have explored a little more, and not made this a 'home'.

This, in essence, is akin to daily brainwashing.

But ask Steve Heller all about intellect. After all, he is the 'super intelligence', personified. Just ask him.

-- Bad Company (surrounded@morons.com), December 23, 1999.

GC, wow. That hurt. Next year, when you hit the high school, I'll bet you really will have some hard-hitting words...more than just 4 or 5 letters...in your arsenal. Now into your room for a little Backstreet Boys!

As for being 'scared', yeah, 2 years ago, when I was doing nightly reading here and on scary Gary's site, I was really scared. And a doomer. But time marches on and the call to maintaining one's intellect entails constant education. Over the past two years, I've noted a lot of progress and a lot of holes being shot into false premises.

Apparently, your intellect stopped after reading the opening lines of doom. Too bad, you could have broadened your horizons dramatically if only you'd have explored a little more, and not made this a 'home'.

This, in essence, is akin to daily brainwashing.

But ask Steve Heller all about intellect. After all, he is the 'super intelligence', personified. Just ask him.

-- Bad Company (surrounded@morons.com), December 23, 1999.

I got them pollies good this time, REAL good!

-- Porky (Porky@in.cellblockD), December 24, 1999.

But ask Steve Heller all about intellect. After all, he is the 'super intelligence', personified. Just ask him.

Compared to "Bad Company" and most of the other pollys here, that's not much of a challenge. However, just for the record, I never claimed that I was "super intelligence, personified", just that I didn't fit Decker's condescending statement about the mediocre intellect of the posters here (of course excluding himself).

-- Steve Heller (stheller@koyote.com), December 24, 1999.

And me.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), December 24, 1999.

What could possibly motivate these individuals....why on earth would they spend one of the most precious commodities a person has, time attacking people that have a difference of opinion.

-- DGI_motives of trolls (karlacalif@aol.com), December 24, 1999.

As usual lately, my couple of cents. Even if every "doomer" is wrong about their individual fears about "why" Y2K could a problem for "them" or "us", each and every one of the reasons they give must be considered. Many can be discounted, but for each and every fear, there are rational reasons why the should be taked into account. My basic take on what's about to occur, after much, and I mean much analysis of the best information available is that I don't really have a clue.

Information overload? not sure. What I am concerned with are the things I barely understand. (I admit it, the complexities are enormous) Basically, I think "Just in Time Inventory" is FUBAR. How our society is going to function without this system is beyond me. I expect unhappiness for all, hope I'm wrong.

As for embedded chips, the numbers alone are incredible. If, somehow, only the smallest percentage are affected by the date changeover, it's still way too many!!!! THERE ARE GOING TO BE SOME PROBLEMS, WE ARE NOT GOING TO LIKE IT, NOT ONE BIT.

I constantly look for reasons society will remain as comfortable as it is now here in the good old "USA", somehow the so called "polly's" expect this to be the norm. I lean much closer to the "doomers" on this one. Not real happy about THAT "thought pattern", just a little reality kicking in. Wish I could "click my heels", so to speak, and have Y2K not something I have to think about and deal with.

May my lucid thoughts about all that might go wrong be totally incorrect. We will have a good idea within the next six months or less. Hope you and I survive to talk about it.

Bye the way, Merry Christmas All, and for those that don't celebrate this as a Holiday, have a good one too.

-- Michael (michaelteever@buffalo.com), December 24, 1999.

My only answer to this post is a reminder for the care and feeding of pollies and the safety of legit contributors to this forum:

After Dec 31, 1999, PLEASE, FOR GOD'S SAKE...
"DON'T FEED THE POLLIES...they bite and may be rabid"

Got ammo?
John 9.5

-- John 9.5 Galt (jgaltfla@hotmail.com), December 24, 1999.

Compared to "Bad Company" and most of the other pollys here, that's not much of a challenge.

-- Steve Heller

*grin* speaking of not much of a challange.......

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), December 24, 1999.

Cheri- says snip .."*grin* speaking of not much of a challange....... --end snip

Good one Cheri. LOL How do those boot laces taste anyway?

-- Michael (mikeymac@uswest.net), December 24, 1999.

Michael, My boot laces are still in the boots I marched in during VietNam.

How do your fingernails taste?

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), December 24, 1999.

Cherio - Since I double wrapped and buried them in the back yard in a coffee can, I haven't been able to chew my nails.

BTW- What color pajamas were you wearing with those boots?

-- spun@lright (mikeymac@uswest.net), December 24, 1999.

Gawd, I can just see Cherri, wearing her Victoria Secret nightee, her red booties, making her way through a rice paddy in 'Nam... Suddenly, Jane Fonda a.k.a. Hanoi Jane and her galley of commie oriental bar girls accost Cherri, resulting in a frenzied mud battle galore!! But Cherri whips all of them, her amazon prowress being more than they can bear!!!

Cherri may not be able to spell, but she can damn well kick butt!!!!

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 24, 1999.

You shore got a purty way with words there KoS!!

-- Porky (Porky@in.cellblockD), December 24, 1999.