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Article #722371Re: Millennium WAS "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?"
From: Stevie Kay
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 00:00
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In article <$c3SqUAD...@notwen.demon.co.uk>, Bill Newton <Bi...@notwen.demon.co.uk> writes >In article <33a559d1....@news.structured.net>, >Fre...@hempseed.com writes >>were you 1 when you were born? ..think about it, weve all celebrated >>a 1st birthday....1 year after you were born...not the day you were >>born... > >In looking at 'birthdays' , which we celebrate >annually, we traditionally celebrate for a full day i.e the date which >corresponds with the date of our birth. > >So, If I'm born for example at 23.59 hrs on December the 31st, that >date becomes my 'birthday'. > >This means that each year my 'birthday' would commence >immediately following midnight on December 30th and last for a >period of 24 hours. > >So I actually ENTER my 'birthday' 23 hrs and 59 minutes before the >actual time of my birth. > >Now! A 'Millenium' cant be celebrated yearly 'cos its NOT a >Millenium til a thousand years have passed. > >So, it's obvious that we need to celebrate the YEAR in which the >Millenium 'comes of age' > >(Much the same way as we celebrate the DAY in which homo sapien >celebrates a 'birthday') > >That will be the year 2000, which of course commences immediately >following midnight of the 31st December 1999. > >So, we actually ENTER our Millenium 'birthyear' celebrations >immediately following midnight on December 31st 1999 even though >there's still a year to go before the Millenium 'thousand' is reached. By which rationale when you are born it is the start of the year which will terminate with the 1st anniversary of your birth. So obviously in your culture you celebrate your first birthday at the moment of your birth. Pass round the milk : ) -- Stevie ste...@the-raven.demon.co.uk
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From: Stevie Kay <ste...@the-raven.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Millennium WAS "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?" Date: 1997/06/14 Message-ID: <Oz51kAA9tqozEw33@the-raven.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 248604219 Distribution: world X-NNTP-Posting-Host: the-raven.demon.co.uk [194.222.221.25] References: <01bc750e$7441ea00$5af62581@dferner> <5njrcp$ndc@limes.air.saab.se> <339e0344.1446549@news.onramp.net> <33a559d1.179639998@news.structured.net> <$c3SqUADxOozEwze@notwen.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,alt.games.quake,alt.games.duke3d,alt.games.mechwarrior2,alt.games.descent,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,alt,recipes.babies,alt.games.redalert,chile.futbol MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit