Re: "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?"

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From: Stevie Kay
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 00:00

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In article <nTyk5FAW...@notwen.demon.co.uk>, Bill Newton
<Bi...@notwen.demon.co.uk> writes

>Hi Neil, I think you might be incorrect here mate. We cant be in the
>second Millenium 'already' because it doesn't exist as yet! 
>
>Why?
>
>Because a Millenium is a span of a thousand years and accordingly can
>only be identified in looking backwards in time.
>
>Ater the year 2000 it would be in order to say  "we lived in the second
>Millenium"  because we could then look back and identify the 1000 year
>span that became the second 'Millenium.
>

In which case we won't be going into but out of the new millenium.
Also it will be the "old" as opposed to the "new" millenium because it
will already have passed.
-- 
Stevie
ste...@the-raven.demon.co.uk

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From: Stevie Kay <ste...@the-raven.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?"
Date: 1997/06/14
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