Help: Y2K

29 Sep 99 - 01:43 PM (#118930)
Subject: Y2K
From: Matthew B.

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?

---

29 Sep 99 - 01:52 PM (#118933)
Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: MMario

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.

---

29 Sep 99 - 01:55 PM (#118936)
Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Matthew B.

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

---

29 Sep 99 - 01:56 PM (#118937)
Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Joe Offer

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-

---

29 Sep 99 - 02:12 PM (#118940)
Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Matthew B.

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

---

29 Sep 99 - 02:13 PM (#118942)
Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Marion

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

---

29 Sep 99 - 02:17 PM (#118944)
Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Matthew B.

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

---

29 Sep 99 - 02:47 PM (#118951)
Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Matthew B.


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

---

29 Sep 99 - 02:48 PM (#118952)
Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Joe Offer

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-

---

29 Sep 99 - 02:53 PM (#118954)
Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: Jeri

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

---

29 Sep 99 - 03:23 PM (#118970)
Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: katlaughing

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

---

29 Sep 99 - 03:23 PM (#118971)
Subject: RE: Help: Y2K
From: MMario

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

---