Just to claim my joke Banjer it was me who sent in the Y to k joke - Bev Lawton. As it happens I am an Analyst/Programmer and have spent the last three years on and off doing work on this but the best Year 2000 problem I've heard happens to be true -

There is a certain company in UK who sells gravestones wholesale to funeral parlours etc and most of the engraving work is actually done on computer controlled robot engravers. What they supply to the "trade" is the usual pictorial scene (Roses, Angels etc) with a suitable pious verse - plus pre-engraved

Born 19 Died 19

Apparantley they have several thousand gravestones on special offer at the moment!!!! Bev