Quotably Quoted #22

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Welcome to 1801!

Date: July 4, 2001: It has been 6 weeks since the nuclear war first started. New York was the first to go. As if that wasn't bad enough, a string of earthquakes started tearing apart the Pacific Rim. You're awake at 4:30AM. You are still tired and dirty - still trying to figure our where to get enough water to fill the bath tub (city services were lost after the last tremor). You haven't bathed in nearly two weeks, and you only have a little water left in two old milk containers that you and your family have been sipping off of for days. The weather is weird - so dark all the time. Worst of all, no one can say with certainty just when it will rain again. None of your neighbors have water either, and everyone is praying for rain and trying to setup rainbarrels. Everyone's patience is wearing thin.

You are hungrier than you have ever been in your life (all supplies to your town stopped coming in two weeks ago and you were in the habit of shopping for only a couple days at a time). You have already eaten everything in the kitchen pantry, including year-old oatmeal and a can of dog food left over that was meant for your pet golden retriever - Spunky. (Poor old Spunky, he has been gone for a week and with all the rumors around the neighborhood of people eating their pets, you only fear the worst). If only you had listened to your sister and planted a garden in the spring!

You haven't been to work in nearly a month. Your work as an accountant was almost over with anyway after Y2K hit. And now, with all the catastrophic events that have occurred around the country and the world - nuclear, biological and others - you knew that it would soon be a lost cause anyway. After all, since people are now fighting for their very survival, what do they need an accountant for anyway? Besides, after the electromagnetic pulse subsided, half of all vehicles wouldn't run anyway - there hasn't been any gasoline available for nearly a month - and what is now available is priced at $20/gallon! Who can afford that?

And then - there are the eruptions of urban and suburban warfare. When President Gore signed an executive order to mandate stage 4 of the Brady Law, you dutifully turned-in your only weapon. The only people with weapons now are criminals, gang members and the police - and the police have all but said that they are not capable of protecting anyone at any time. You are now on your own - left to protect and defend your family with mere kitchen utensils! The "bad times" as they are now being called, can be heard all around, every night. Sirens, gun fire, calls for help - they never cease. Even if you felt like sleeping, you couldn't. You are finding yourself praying for the first time in years - but with such paper-thin faith, you wonder if anyone is listening. Hope is fading. Suicide is now being considered.

How prepared are you?

-- watchin' the storm approach (be@ready.com), August 01, 1999

Now, this was funny...and sad...

Vindicated Regards,
Andy Ray



-- Andy Ray (andyman633@hotmail.com), June 09, 2000

Answers

Andy Ray should adopt a slogan that applies to the doomers who deride his efforts.

"An apology filled with excuses negates the apology". That would nicely cover such people as Big Jerk and Sysboy. Yourdon doesn't even bother but merely declares Y2k over thus maintaining his perfect record of a life of never making a single mis-statement in the grand tradition of the Snake Oil Salesman/Consultant.

This message following Andy Ray's will be followed shortly by several from people who need to get a life instructing Andy Ray to get a life.

Andy Ray is lazy. If he devotes more than 5 minutes a day to finding a new quote that would be a lot.

With a bit of effort, anyone could post 5 quotes a day for the next 3 years using only the tripe at TB I selected randomly.

Try it. Read 15 threads and see if you can't find 5 quotes in less than 20 minutes.

We leave you now to await the postings of the "get a life Gang".

-- Anon (anon@anon.anon), June 09, 2000.


If people will just stop replying to these posts by Andy, sooner or later he'll get tired of talking to himself. I haven't been reading them for some time, but must call them up to get them to change color so they don't keep shouting out at me. Very annoying. Too bad we can't get him and LadyLogic together!

-- Tired (of@Andy's.inanaties), June 09, 2000.

Thats ONE.

-- Anon (anon@anon.anon), June 09, 2000.

And here is the "LordDumbo" himself. http://www.jimlord.to/SecretSurvey.cfm

-- gh (a@s.c), June 09, 2000.

Get a life, ANON.

-- (nemesis@awol.com), June 09, 2000.


That's Two!!!!

-- hop (ss@home.c), June 09, 2000.

Get a life, HOP.

-- (nemesis@awol.com), June 09, 2000.

Thats 3!!!!

-- fbi (see@home.com), June 09, 2000.

Since I missed a lot of this while it was going on, I find Andy Ray's retrospectives to be interesting, and I hope he keeps them up.

-- E.H. Porter (Just Wondering@About.it), June 09, 2000.

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