I have been happy that it all passed so uneventfully. But I spent New Year's Eve doing fireworks. It's amazing how a little gunpowder can turn balding middle-aged men into giggling Huckleberry Finns.

You light the fuse and chuck it. Everyone crouches and waits for the noise. Fzzzzzzz.....zzz.......zz..... Nothing but a few wisps of smoke as the fuse burns out. Everyone relaxes and takes their hands off of their ears. Forget about that one and light the next one.

Ten minutes later you're not even looking at it and then KAPOW!

(even better it was a roman candle and started chasing us with little exploding fireballs)

There has been an awful lot of fizzing. It's only been a week. Wait for a bang somewhere!

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), January 08, 2000

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What, you're saying that y2k is a giant hidden digital firecracker waiting to go KABOOM when we turn our backs the other way? I never thought of y2k being like that, thats worse than that I've ever said about y2k. I knew y2k started with a fizzle over the last few days and I've noticed it's still fizzing away but very much alive, but more importantly just where is the fizzing going to lead to? Oh now you've upset all the pollies and doomers.

-- Brent Nichols (b-nichol@ihug.co.nz), January 08, 2000.

So y2k-related TEOTWAWKI might suddenly sneak up on us any second?

Or is this a cryptic threat?

Okie dokie.

-- Kim (ten@eleven.com), January 08, 2000.

INFOMAAGIC said "Y2K is the trigger and the economy is the target. The trigger has clicked, but the hammer has not yet hit the firing pin to hit the bullet. We have a couple more months to prep.

-- John Littmann (littmannj@aol.com), January 08, 2000.

No guys, the analogy was that something, somewhere has yet to go Bang.

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), January 08, 2000.

Cheeseburger please, to go. Thanks Pro.

-- Michael Erskine (Osiris@urbanna.net), January 08, 2000.

Nahhhhh Forrest...Y2K is more like a box of chocolates. =)

-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), January 08, 2000.

Everywhere I go there is this little white feather floating in the air......

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), January 08, 2000.