Help: Y2K

Subject: Y2K
From: Matthew B.
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 01:43 PM

I posted this on another thread, but got no takers. I wrote (in 5 minutes, as you can tell) the beginnings of a Y2K New Years song, to the tune of Greensleeves, asking if anybody wanted to add a verse or two.

How 'bout it, folks?

New Year's, 1999 (to the tune of Greensleeves)
by Matthew B (and others?)

Before the advent of Y-2-K
As ev'ryone is out rev-el-ing
The clocks are ticking the minutes away
And the date fields are nearing their lev-el-ing

Cho:
Crash, crash go the systems all
As the lights go out and the elevators fall
Phones are down so there's no one to call
And the banks have lost all your mon-ey

The planes can't land 'cause their guidance is down
And the lights are out all over the town
There's no water pressure the fires to drown
And you find yourself stuck on the subway

Cho.

Well, you get the idea. Anybody want to add a verse?

Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: MMario
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 01:52 PM

My response is the same as before. Please do not encourage the Y2K disaster mongers. I suspect the biggest problem with Y2K will be a FEW people will have billing problems in January.

Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Matthew B.
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 01:55 PM

Actually, as a software developer myself, I'm inclined to agree with you. But I still think it's a fun subject to sing about

Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 01:56 PM

Well, I do think there are going to be some serious hangovers on January 1, 2000. I don't expect much else to happen. Oh, well...probably a few extra babies will be conceived.
Yawn....
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Matthew B.
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 02:12 PM

Okay, joe, but how about a stanza for the song from you?

Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Marion
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 02:13 PM

Not to mention a few extra babies being born to all the people who calculated to have millenium babies.

I think there's more to be worried about from general human weirdness than from computer glitches. I think we can expect to see a rash of cultic/terrorist actions inspired by the cosmic significance of the change in digits.

Marion

Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Matthew B.
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 02:17 PM

Cults and terrorists? What a great idea for some extra stanzas!

Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Matthew B.
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 02:47 PM


The doomsday cults are all in the fray
As they usher i-in the judgement day
And each little prophet will have his way
And the re-est of u-us are heathens

Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 02:48 PM

OK, Matthew. You may be sorry:

People are anxious about the Millennium to come
But I think all this hype is really quite dumb
Why should we worry and sit around in a funk?
It's a great excuse to get laid and get drunk.

With sincere apologies,
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 02:53 PM

I think I can respond to Matthew and make MMario happy at the same time. These are for "the day after," and are prompted by those Armageddon-happy TV stations that have been selling end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it preparation kits:

The TV guy said I should buy
A bunch of stuff to stay alive
He sold me all that I required
For seventeen fifty and and ninety five.

But the joke's on him, cause I paid by card
And his system will crash in ten seconds, flat
To collect my money will be very hard
You'd think they would have thought of that

Damn, damn, the old year's done
The phone is ringing, the lights are all on
From creditors now I'll have to run
'Cause I don't have any money

Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 03:23 PM

Great idea, Matthew! Good verses. LOL, Joe & Jeri.

I think a little sensitivity about conception and babies might be better, though, remembering what Matthew & his wife have just been through.

Kat

Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: MMario
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 03:23 PM

HA-HAH! THAT I like! (Sorry - Y2K is right up there in my list of "Questions that will make me go berserk if I am asked again today")

MMario

Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Matthew B.
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 04:08 PM

Kat, no problem about the conception stuff. My wife and I are back to the drawing bed... uh, board, and you have to admit, the process itself is fun to say the least.

Jeri, I love those verses!

I think I'll visit the cash machine
And stock up on bills of that lovely green
Then maybe on new year's they'll wipe my slate clean
And I can deny the with-draw-al

Cause Y2K is the big excuse
Which I plan to put to its fullest use
I'll phone the banks up and heap the abuse
While I claim that they lost all my millions