Mothers Day On Viagra & Kamikazee's

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Just got done watching Kosky's performance from his new theatre in the round. He did a three part play with a fella named Powell from the FCC and Roth from GTE.

The topic of network congestion came up and this is what Powell said in his closing remarks...

"blah, blah blah...I'd also like to mention the phenomenon o fnetwork congestion. There sometimes occasions when a great number of individuals attempt to make calls at the same time. This results in 'network congestion'. Folk's we see this EVERY MOTHER'S DAY. And we expect that Y2K will be like MOTHER'S DAY ON VIAGRA!..."

At that point, there were some very nervous smiles all around. I'll give it to Powell, he realized how bad that sounded and rolled right along....but then turned the mic over to Roth who had this to say....

"I want to thank Mr. Powell for painting a rather interesting picture with that analogy..."

And he said it totally deadpan. I was ROTFL.

So listen up kids, the official message is

1. It's all fixed, it's been fixed for a while and we see no problems.

2. Picking up the phone on New Years simply causes problem.

3. If you should happen to develope a stiffy, chubby or woody don't use it as an excuse to call Mom, or anyone else for that matter.

My other Millenial quote of the evening came from Quincy Jones, producer of the Millenial Mall Madness Gala in DC. When asked, what does it take to produce something like this event,,,Quincy replied..."A kamikazee mentality"

There you have it.

-- Gordon (g_gecko_69@hotmail.com), December 28, 1999

Answers

Translation: Y2K = One MOTHERF***ER

-- SH (squirrel@huntr.com), December 28, 1999.

A little Freudian slip, maybe?

-- (nyuck@nyuck.nyuck), December 28, 1999.

Gecko-

I like the viagra and kamikaze image, but I think Hunter S. Thompson was ahead of his time when he described what Y2K might seem like to some pollies, if it hits as hard:

"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls......but the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge....."

from "fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson

mix THAT all together, and you've got a reasonable facsimile of Y2K polly headache...

-- (cavscout@fix.net), December 28, 1999.


And that weird boy lives here. Yikes.

-- OR (orwelliator@biosys.net), December 30, 1999.

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