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

#722373
From: Matthew G. Nowak
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 00:00
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Bill Newton wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> The upside of this is that we can quite legitimately  party like mad
> for an entire year i.e. until the 'actual' thousandth year concludes at
> midnight on December 31st 2000. Thats when the 'birthyear' ends.
> The second Millenium will be no more. Ah!
> 
> But hey! let the party continue, to say cheerio to the year 2000 and
> bring in the new year 2001!
> 
> Cheers.
> --
> Bill Newton

	Umm.. and we all give a damn about this because?....
-- 
Matthew Nowak
ma...@ptd.net
Chazwozel on Kali
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From: "Matthew G. Nowak" <ma...@ptd.net>
Subject: Re: Millennium WAS "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?"
Date: 1997/06/14
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