COUNTRYSIDE editor predicted world would end 1/1/00

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How many of you were duped by countryside mag. into believing that you had to stock up on food and supplies because the waord was going to end? The editors play on your paranoia in order to sell their mag. How liong before this post is removed?

-- Hector (hector@wabcmail.com), April 16, 2002

Answers

Perhaps it has ended Hector. Perhaps the world "as we knew it" has ended.

-- Judy (JMcFerrin@aol.com), April 16, 2002.

Hector, the real question is- did you get paranoid and/or deluded and stock up too? Sounds like it. ; ) Nobody can make you paranoid but yourself.

On a related note, you should always be prepared for those kinds of things, long before and long after 1/1/00.

-- Dave (multiplierx9@hotmail.com), April 16, 2002.


Never liked that old waord anyway! heehee! Sooooo liong cruel waord!

-- Bukbuk (hmmm@chicken.com), April 16, 2002.

get with the times Hector - 2012

-- B. Lackie - Zone3 (cwrench@hotmail.com), April 16, 2002.

Based on all of the money spent on programmers, and the extent of the messed op computers before mending the program code, I sure felt there would be disruptions.

As you must know, we can say what we want in this fine country, within reason.

-- Rick in Southwest WV (Rick_122@hotmail.com), April 16, 2002.



I have been a long time Countryside subscriber. I recall in 1999 when Jerry first began his articles he stated that it may not happen, but provided information indicating it may. I in no way thought I was dupped. In the end it was a eye opening realization as to how dependant we are on technology and our modern ways.

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), April 16, 2002.

I personally stocked up on quite a few boxes of Malt-O-Meal, which is my favorite cereal. But seeing how I can't get it in this part of the waord, I have always kept a few boxes on hand.

-- Bren (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), April 16, 2002.

Hector, out here we spent 3 1/2 days without power during one of the coldest parts of the winter. We were lucky: it was 10 days before some people had their power back on. It wasn't paranoia that had me take precautions: it was the knowledge of being vulnerable to this sort of thing.

I love living out of the city but we are a long ways from the power plant and due to the relatively sparse population we are NOT on the high priority list to get it fixed to say the least! THE POWER GOES OUT AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR, EVERY YEAR! It is just common sense to take precautions.

By the way, the main subject of the magazine is how to work a small acreage without having to buy a $50,000 tractor, building your own barn, and so forth. I subscribe not due to fear, but because the information is useful.

Besides, I LIKE reading the magazine, no other justification is necessary.

-- Terri (hooperterri@prodigy.net), April 16, 2002.


OOPS! I meant it shows HOW to build your own barn, not how to get along without one!

-- Terri (hooperterri@prodigy.net), April 16, 2002.

Mag?, would that be magnum, maggot, magenta(lovely color),maggellen (great little discoverer there), or would that be magnificent! I just hate being fooled by the magnificent! If it is just one thing I don't like, it is being fooled by the magnificent. What about you Gilly and Bren?

-- Bukbuk (hmmm@chicken.com), April 16, 2002.


We just hate being taken in by the magnitude of magma erupting from the waord.

-- gilly and Bren (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), April 16, 2002.

Oh lovely! The magenta magma of magnificent magical magnitudes!

-- Bukbuk (hmmm@chicken.com), April 16, 2002.

Now,now. Y'all are not being nice to Hector. I, for one did stock up and provided myself with alternative methods of doing almost everything. I still have my beautiful pantry and keep it fully stocked at all times. I have a wood stove- just in case. I have a well bucket- if I need it. I have hand tools and heirloom seeds, as well as the knowledge to survive without modern conveniences. Those of us that weren't 'prepared' and got 'duped' into thinking the end of the world as we know it was at hand, should thank Countryside. At least I will. Thank you Countryside for giving me the incentive to prepare my homestead for WHATEVER lies ahead!

-- Gayle in KY (gayleannesmith@yahoo.com), April 16, 2002.

Hector's baiting, and I'm waiting for the Magi with baited breath...or is that chex-mix breath?

-- gilly (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), April 16, 2002.

yup, if anything all that 'paranoia' opened some eyes and lead more to being self-sufficient. I personally never doubted we'd have a smooth transition with computers, airlines, power, etc but I was a bit more alert that maybe someone with an agenda would use that date to start trouble.

It sure made alot of money for the people on the side of selling all those preps.

-- Dave (multiplierx9@hotmail.com), April 16, 2002.



Actually would be meatloaf and mashed potatoes at our house tonight! But yes! The Magi is most magnificent! It could happen any moment! We could leave this Waord and say so liong!

-- Bukbuk (hmmm@chicken.com), April 16, 2002.

I believe that there might have actually been a problem on 1/1/00 if folks like the editors at countryside (and others, like Ed Yardeni) hadn't raised the alarm and made individuals take notice and upgrade systems in order to by Y2K compliant. So perhaps we have CS mag to thank for a reverse-self-fulfilling prophesy.

On the other hand, we probably have the Y2K "problem" to thank for the current recession, since everyone bought new computers (and such) just in time for Y2K, then didn't need to spend any new money for a couple of years afterwards... Doh!

Just my .02

Hey, make posts that aren't patently inflammatory, and you make my job easier. Refrain from complicating my life, and your post gets to stay. Everyone's happy. :-) How about that?

-- Chuck (woah@mission4me.com), April 16, 2002.


Chuck, you are only flamed if you actually take the guy cereal!

-- Bukbuk (hmmm@chicken.com), April 16, 2002.

Bukbuk, Bren was just tellin' me that she thinks you are so magNANimous!!! But I find you more magniloquent.....

-- gilly (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), April 16, 2002.

Yep!

-- Bukbuk (hmmm@chicken.com), April 16, 2002.

Magniloquent? Did you all cheat and use a dictionary? heeheehee! What in the waord is magniloquent?

-- Bukbuk (hmmmm@chicken.com), April 16, 2002.

ROFLMAOPIMP!!!!!(or something on that order of magnitude) ;^}~

-- gilly (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), April 16, 2002.

Oh goodness Gilly, you are spelling like Hector!!

-- Bukbuk (hmmm@chicken.com), April 16, 2002.

g'night John-boy.

g'night Bukbuk.

g'night Hector.

-- gilly and Bren (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), April 16, 2002.


Nightie night! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

-- Bukbuk (hmmm@chicken.com), April 16, 2002.

Actually, I don't recall JD saying that the world would end. In fact, I specifically recall him looking at the Y2K hullabaloo as an opportunity rather than a catastrophe. I recall him listing various ways in which the world was supposed to end, and why he thought these scenarios would not happen. So could you please quote the place where he said the world would end??

-- Rebekah (daniel1@itss.net), April 17, 2002.

I have to agree with Chuck. The whole disaster was reversed because it did bring the problem to the attention of the computer world. Maybe the world didn't end, but it did cost dearly! We are all still paying for technologies biggest screw up.

Friends, it doesn't have to be computers that send us into chaos..there is a whole lot good in the world, but there is also a whole lot bad and there are a lot of potential disasterous storms brewing out there -- even more than before Y2K!

My therory--if you stock the stuff you use anyway you aren't out a thing, your just ready! Hey, lots of folks thought Noah was crazy too....wonder what they thought when it started to rain???????

-- Karen (mountains_mama2@hotmail.com), April 17, 2002.


Love you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Rose (open_rose@hotmail.com), April 17, 2002.

Maybe he was HOPING the world as we know it would end!!! I kind of thought it might be a real eye-opener to some people.

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), April 17, 2002.

I am so proud of you all !!!!!!!! Excellant job , much more fun to make fun of the post instead of them baiting us.

-- Patty Gamble (fodfarms@hotmail.com), April 17, 2002.

Yep. Strange stuff in this waord! Better to be just a little 'paranoid' than get caught with your pants down (can I say that?) in case of a storm, war, power outages, recession, depression, etc. etc. etc.etc........

wait, maybe that was another spelling error, maybe you meant to say prepared instead of paranoid? That what oit was! So, we agree then! Good day!

-- Novina in ND (homespun@stellarnet.com), April 17, 2002.


well, evidently HE bought the magazined!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Bonnie in indiana (queqid@att.net), April 17, 2002.

The editors didn't dupe us,The world duped itself. The y2k preperation was just that preperation , not a promise. Those preperations are now paying off for me as the resulting recession eliminated my employment and I used my y2k reserves for my transition to what I do now. As a matter of fact, now that I am on the outside of the self centered and uniformed rat race society, I'm restocking that pantry to afford myself more flexibility.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), April 17, 2002.

Gee, now I need to drag out the old mags just for curiosity.......my waord changed long before 1/1/00 and I love it!!! Funny people in the waord...................liong on trouble and short on brains??

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), April 17, 2002.

My dad was little during the great depression. He said you should always have your pantry stocked full. I even remember my mom keeping full cases of can goods under the beds for storage. Maybe that is why I am so over weight I dreamed of food. LOL Anyway most people are only one or two months from losing everything if they lose there job. Since food is one of the bigest bills you have every month it is a good idea to always have enough to get your through several months with no income. Your family won't go hungry it will be easier on your saving till you can pick up another job. I don't find people who are well stocked up panic stricken I find them very smart to think about how people are losing jobs right and left these days, and are ready for anything.

-- Teresa (c3ranch@socket.net), April 17, 2002.

Diane, I think he meant the *wood* was going to end. S'pose he's (?) one of them tree huggers??? 8-)

-- sheepish (WAH!) (the_original_sheepish@hotmail.com), April 17, 2002.

Ha! Sheepish that IS funny! Long time no read! Glad to hear from you!

-- Nan (davidl41@ipa.net), April 17, 2002.

Sheepish, maybe it was supposed to read "the wood was going to bend"?? Was this a post about bent wood for rocking chairs?

-- Liz Rhein (merhein@shentel.net), April 17, 2002.

I really miss Y2K. It was a lot of fun & I learned so much that is helpful in my new life. For me, the world as I knew it ended in June of 2000; husband retired & we moved to our dream place in the woods. I love my new life!

-- Bonnie (stichart@plix.com), April 17, 2002.

Well, I am new to this forum...though not new to "Countryside"..and I sure am having trouble understanding Hector....what is "waord" ...is that a typigraphical error..or does he speak a different language? Whatever....just don't get too rowdy...I'd hate to see this forum go...I just discovered it and it is really quite useful.

I certainly don't feel duped by "Countryside" about Y2K. I did some extra perparing for it and don't regret it. I am convinced that whatever I have will be useful in some future event. Bigger things than Y2K are certainly coming if you believe your Bible. If I were Hector, I don't think I'd be getting rid of anything I'd stocked up on just yet. Those things may really come in handy real soon.

Evelyn

-- Evelyn Flesher (etflesher@netexas.net), April 17, 2002.


Hey Chuck! Let him be. I think us Country Side Homesteaders are really having a lot of fun with this one. We love an oportunity to defend our way of life. Besides I need to streighten out my thinking here... If you wern't already taking Country side, How would you know what Jerry said anyway. And.. If he was the cause of the panic, Does that mean everyone reads it? Businesses all over the world spent huge sums of money to protect their computers. That included my employer. A bank. So.. Why would he have to make up somthing to sell his magazine if every one in the WORLD takes it already? I am so confused!

-- corky wolf (corkywolf@hotmail.com), April 17, 2002.

Geez, you guys, you are really picking on poor Hector. I wonder which camp he is going to lump us all into? Will we become his friends or his enemas?

-- Cabin Fever (cabinfever_MN@yahoo.com), April 17, 2002.

With friends like us, who needs enemas?

-- Bukbuk (hmm@chicken.com), April 17, 2002.

Oh, great, the world ended and nobody told me! Now I find out two years later. :>

-- Jennifer L. (Northern NYS) (jlance@nospammail.com), April 17, 2002.

No Jen, the Waord came to an end! The world is still chugging aliong.

-- Bukbuk (Hmm@chicken.com), April 17, 2002.

gilly go change your clothes.

You can never be Paranoid enough.

y2K just a minor tremor for the crunch yet to come.

Stock up? Hmmmm it would seem prudent to have 3 months of food on hand at any time.

Waord Hmm what a waord we live in. :o)

Actually Hector, we were alraedy P-R-E-P-A-R-E-D. It's a way of life.

-- Kenneth in N.C. (wizardsplace13@hotmail.com), April 17, 2002.


You know folks, I don't think Hector is the pain he professes to be. Unlike another that posts here. I think he thought long and hard to pick the right question to generate the most fun. It worked.

-- corky wolf (corkywolf@hotmail.com), April 17, 2002.

Bukbuk, with enemas like us, who needs Grape-Nuts?

-- gilly (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), April 17, 2002.

What's that you say Mr. Gibbens? Many parts of the waord are edible!? Personally I prefer Lucky charms! No fiber, but it has those cute little squishy shapes! ;~)!!

-- Bukbuk (hmmm@chicken.com), April 17, 2002.

Ooooooh Hector....where'd you go? Was it something we said?

-- Bukbuk (hmmm@chicken.com), April 17, 2002.

...shhhhh... hey, everybody... I don't think Hector's listening anymore...(Bukbuk, I bet you like to have a few enemas around if that's all the fiber you get!)

-- Bren (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), April 17, 2002.

Nah, I said I liked them, didn't say I ate them! LOL! We alas, are a flake family! Not that they wouldn't eat the Cap'n Crunch and that wonderful sugar saturated Lucky Charms if I bought them! ;~) Nope, it is cheapo cornflakes and branflakes for us! We are a regular type of family!:~)!

-- Bukbuk (hmmmm@chicken.com), April 17, 2002.

Hey, I think we have come up with the solution for cleaning up the forum for Chuck! Discussing regularity and cereal has seemingly gotten rid of our little friend. Too bad, it was getting to be fun! Guess that we now have to get back to "regular" forum questions! heehawheehaw! Sorry, Just couldn't resist you all!

-- Bukbuk (hmmm@chicken.com), April 17, 2002.

I dont think its the cereal your eating as much as what you are pouring on them?

-- kathy h (ckhart55@earthlink.net), April 17, 2002.

STOP! QUIT, YOU GUYS! I am laughing so hard I am nearly in hysterics. Poor dh thinks I've lost it, sitting here in the living room by myself laughing my head off.

-- Lenette (kigervixen@nospam.com), April 17, 2002.

Why Kathy, we are offended aren't we Bren? NOT! heeheehee! hiccup! oops!

-- Bukbuk (Hmmm@chicken.com), April 17, 2002.

I was very disappointed the bank computers did not crash! THat was my plan: Take out as much money of the banks as possible, hoping they would forget I owed them money. Now I have huge loans to pay back! Oh well maybe next time...

-- BossNass (chrisnass@hotmail.com), April 17, 2002.

How about putting it this way...Does anyone here want to sell me their years supply of Dehydrated food at dirt cheap prices now that there is nothing to worry about...Come on the world is in a whole lot worse mess now than Two yrs ago and It is continuing to spiral downward!!!!

-- BT Clowne (lakebreezefan@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002.

OMG....LOLROFPIP.

-- Susan in Michigan (cobwoman@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002.

ROTF LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Jodie in TX (stanchnmotion@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002.

Having been a banker for 23 years before I saw the light and started a goat dairy in the hills in Arkansas, I was personally affronted that the banks didn't crash. Gosh I wanted to see that soooooo bad. Worked my fingers to the bone and what do you get? Boney fingers and no money. I remember in 1959 all the rubber stamps that had to be thrown away because they didn't have the '60's in 'em. Of course I was just a pup, only 7 years old, but it made an impression. I also remember when I bought my 8088 computer (remembering the 59 to 60 issue) thinking whaaaas gonna happen in 2000 when you have 19xx in the bios. I didn't go out and buy an AK47 to protect my basement full of home canned goods. Just stocked up on a little more lamp oil than usual and shot off fireworks. Them there republicans aren't gonna let all their profits go to hades, so you could really rest assured that Y2K was gonna fizzle except for my own personal fireworks on top of the hill.

Dennis

-- Dennis Enyart (cowboy405@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002.


BT, I'll give you $1.95 for all, and I'll put 'em in my fallout shelter! You do know what to do in case of fallout all????

-- Dennis Enyart (westwoodcaprine@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002.

Do tell.

-- Gayle in KY (gayleannesmith@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002.

Hey, Bukbuk..... Pass the milk! (wink, wink)

-- Bren (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), April 18, 2002.

What happened to my Cheerios post??

-- Ardie/WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), April 18, 2002.

Ardie, That was on the "Soldiers killed by Arabs" post. Your Cheerios post is still there. I'm a Captain Crunch fan myself, the peanut butter kind!

-- cowgirlone in ok (cowgirlone47@hotmail.com), April 18, 2002.

Exactly what are you people putting in your milk??? ;>)

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002.

Diane

I'm not sure about the milk question, but I can say if the wood does come to an end, I will certainly need friends more than enemas (or I better start saving my catalogues, and other recycling ;>).

-- Rick in Southwest WV (Rick_122@hotmail.com), April 18, 2002.


I thought it was Post Cheerios

-- B. Lackie - Zone3 (cwrench@hotmail.com), April 18, 2002.

Thanks cowgirlone! I thought I was getting paranoid from too much cereal. BTW,I never did stock up on anything! Why would I stock up on anything when the waord was coming to an end? LOL!

-- Ardie/WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), April 18, 2002.

We stocked up on 800lbs of wheat. We fed it to the pigs and they got fat on it. We're done with it now. Now, we've got fat sausage in the freezer. The theory was that I could make wheat beer with it.

-- Mark Rhein (merhein@shentel.net), April 18, 2002.

Hey ya'll, I am back. Had some surprise company that just left and I came back here to see if ya'll were still having a little forum party! Pass the Cheerios Ardie and Bren pass the "milk"! Hey Hector, come join us and we promise we won't sing Kumbaya! :~)!

-- Bukbuk (hmmm@chicken.com), April 18, 2002.

Hey Bren, what was in that "milk"? Gilly seems to be yodelling! ~~~

-- Bukbuk (hmmm@chicken.com), April 18, 2002.

Working with the computer industry at that time, I wish more people could have seen the overtreatment at a fully automated water treatment facility when everything was set ahead in controlled scenario testing. 150 pounds of chemicals added at one time instead of the maximum 4 ounces that was normally mixed in. I for one am glad that y2k debugging was implemented. Thats also why to the general public "nothing serious happened",because engineers that didn't really know ,chose to err on the side of precaution.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), April 18, 2002.

Hey Jay, do you suppose that is what happened to the Milk? Those cows must have been drinking that Y2K water! Makes sense to me! That is scarey isn't it?

-- Bukbuk (hmmm@chicken.com), April 18, 2002.

Yodelayheehoooooo....that wasn't milk...it was Swiss Miss Instant Cocoa....

-- gilly (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), April 18, 2002.

What a giggle! For certain and for sure....if the jokes about fiber and cereals don't scare the guy away....your yodelling will! Hey, if everyone would just yodel, the woard would be a better place! :~D Oh and Gilly, you ought to add water to that swiss miss next time! hardy har har!

-- Bukbuk (hmm@chicken.com), April 18, 2002.

Hey Hector! The best prophet is one who's predictions didn't happen, for he did what it took to 'change things'. By the way ... Y2K will happen in 28 years. Seems the programers were over worked at the last minute, and just told all those stupid boxes that it was 1972, and to call it 2000. Programers were few, hard to find (people who know the old computer languages) how many will be around and remember the next time Y2K come around? I wonder who was duped? It never hurts to be prepared, after all we are at war, or did you miss that one?

-- T Carroll (caerhuill@att.net), April 21, 2002.

Well I haven't looked at this post since I posted to it in the begining .Boy have you guys been having fun and I was missing it all .

-- Patty Gamble (fodfarms@hotmail.com), April 21, 2002.

Yeah, where did Hector go? Maybe he no longer lives in this waord! How liong before Hector knew he didn't live in this waord anymore?!? It sounds like Hector bought into the "duping" like we all did. So if I'm correct, and Hector did leave this waord, there is going to be one heck of an auction of Hector's supplies. Does anyone know where in the waord Hector lived?!?!?!?!?!? Ok, I'm done!

-- Michael W. Smith in North-West Pennsylvania (kirklbb@penn.com), April 21, 2002.

I knew I was completely ready for Y2K. Wrong!! The following year we had a terrible ice storm. 13 days without utilities or water (well water on electric pump). try to cross ice creeks and feed cows, horses, sheep, chix plus trees falling everywhere. We were not as ready as I thought. This house was cold. I had lots of canned foods and even did the Dutch Oven thing outdoors on wood. New Years Eve, ham and cherry pie but..I lost sheep (they got upset and aborted their babies and then became so sick, it was a mess), a few cows were lost, horses fine but I was pretty rattled. Take a bath with a pint of water a day! We could get creek water but that took a lot of walking and hauling which we used in the tolets and to water the animals. It was not healty water for the animals but I was limited to water. We are much better prepared now after the 13 days to figured out what we missed. I am sure glad for the amount of planning I did do with the Y2K though.

-- debbie (bwolcott@cwis.net), April 23, 2002.

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