Got Plans for the Milennium?

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: T in Oklahoma
Date: 30 Sep 99 - 08:36 AM

WyoWoman, I've heard of Lindsay, in the Chickasaw Nation near Erin Springs, but where on earth is Britton ?

I live in the Unassigned Lands at the center of the state, and work in OKC.

T.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: GeorgeH
Date: 30 Sep 99 - 10:43 AM

Thinking about this a little more (and hoping no-one's already come up with this bit of silliness); I don't reckon I'll be around for a thousand years, so I'll stick with planning a week at a time . . .

G.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 30 Sep 99 - 10:51 AM

T-in-OK

Maybe I spelled it wrong. Britten, maybe? up by The Village, north of OKC, south of Edmond.

Yup, smack in the Chickasaw Nation, that's it. My homeland. I don't miss chiggers.

WW

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Larry B.
Date: 30 Sep 99 - 11:42 AM

W.W.:

I live in Putnam City (Northwest OKC), and there is a Britton Road up here that runs east and west, about three miles south of Edmond. Could that be what you are thinking of?

LB

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Larry B.
Date: 30 Sep 99 - 11:46 AM

Usually a get-together with friends or neighbors. I don't see why 2000 should be any different than any other new year's celebration. Of course, a party at the Mudcat, watching everyone go off line as the Y2K bug catches up with them, might be fun!

LB

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: kendall
Date: 30 Sep 99 - 12:40 PM

Hi Mag... what made you think I was a teacher?

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 30 Sep 99 - 05:39 PM

GeorgeH... why am I getting this eerie feeling that, any minute now, you are going to ask me to diagram a sentence?

LEJ (linguistically innacurate, but with a heart as big as all outdoors)

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Eric_Storm
Date: 30 Sep 99 - 07:29 PM

My wife and I will be vacationing in Maui. I'm hoping our flight back late Jan 1 will be grounded by Y2K.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: annamill
Date: 30 Sep 99 - 08:18 PM

At our bank, Bank of New York, we are working hurriedly to finish testing with all our clients before the end of the year(everything) and I over heard one of our testers, who sits in the cubicle right next to me, talking to one of our clients while testing.

The client casually asked him if we were finished testing all our software for Y2K yet. I loved his answer. "Heck", he said. "We're testing for Y3K already".

PARTEEEEE!!!

Love, annap

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From:
Date: 30 Sep 99 - 09:48 PM

A Londoner, when asked if he really thought the world would come to an end on Bug-bear Black Monday (March 29, 1652) said, No, if he believed that, he would go to Paris.

Maybe I'll go to the moon and watch and see what happens.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 01 Oct 99 - 12:41 AM

T-in-Ok-- yop. That road just east of Western goes through what used to be the little town of Britton. When I was a kid, it was a town all by itself.

(sorry for the thread creep, all. Just scroll past...I've already said what I'll most likely be doing for the millennium: Working. Hey, I'm a journalist. Some of us have to keep track of what's happening so when the rest of you sober up we can give you a report.)

WW

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: T in Oklahoma (a.k.a. Okiemockbird)
Date: 01 Oct 99 - 08:25 AM

WW: Actually it was LarryB that mentioned Britton Road (though I suppose I might've if he hadn't) A little north of Britton Road (=93d NW), off Pennsylvania, is North Britton Park. That and Britton Road seems to be all that's left, as far as the cartographers are concerned, of Britton.

Okiemockbird (a.k.a. T in Oklahoma)

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 01 Oct 99 - 08:46 AM

Wow, multiple Okies all of a sudden. NOW the 'cat's gettin good.

(Just kiddink all you other 'catters. One doesn't HAVE to be an Okie to be wonderful. It just helps...)

This thread has reminded me that I probably should go buy my lone little bottle of champagne soon and stick it in the fridge. I bet supplies will be dwindling soon...

ww

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Oct 99 - 09:17 AM

Keyriced, we are a boring bunch of mortar forkers aren't we?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 01 Oct 99 - 09:38 AM

I had thought to log into Mudcat...but since it looks like there won't be anyone here.....

mcmoo

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: poet
Date: 01 Oct 99 - 07:17 PM

I thought all flights are grounded (in case) january 1st. and incidentally when do journalists sober up enough to notice what's going on.
graham

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 01 Oct 99 - 11:51 PM

Oh, journalists are actually a sort of well-behaved lot these days, dammit. My first boss, 20 years ago, always kept a fifth of Scotch in his desk drawer and would dramatically bring it out and set it on his desk at the drop of a hat. He had milk and vodka for breakfast, but was a terrific editor.

In my first newsroom we could smoke at our desks, and I thought that was an important part of looking like a journalist, so I did -- until I emptied the ash tray into the trash can and was in the middle of an interview when flames leaped up from under the desk.

Nowadays, it's double lattes at 4 p.m. to get us through the late deadlines. And I actually meet a couple of fellow journalists at the gym in the mornings at 6:30. Not like the old days, nosirreebob...

But for the millennium, maybe I"ll actually order some bubbly for the gang. We ought to get something for working while the entire rest of the world is wearing funny hats and playing with noisemakers.

ww

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Morgie
Date: 02 Oct 99 - 08:53 AM

Well, living in New York City as i do, I will probably be in a car frantically trying to escape to somewhere just a wee bit safer..probably Jersey...I've already stockpiled cans though, just in case. Either that, or I will be spending time with my lover, unless he's planning to do something..I really hate big parties unless they are really just an excuse for a huge session, but I don't think I'll be able to find anyone interested in doing that over here on New Years Eve. *sigh*

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 02 Oct 99 - 07:05 PM

Morgie -- I bet you could. I'd much rather be singing or working than out doing my best to party hearty. New Year's Eve has always been my least favorite holiday -- dedicated totally to false gaeity.

Now, Halloween. THERE's a holiday. You can't go wrong with a holiday dedicated to gore and sugar.

WW

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: emily rain
Date: 02 Oct 99 - 08:40 PM

amen to that!

of course, it's also the neo-celtic-pagan new year: a time to review the losses of the past year and look ahead to the next. write messages to your dearly departed and burn them in the bonfire, then grab hands with someone you love and leap over it!

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 03 Oct 99 - 02:18 AM

I wanna come to YOUR party!

ww

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: selby
Date: 03 Oct 99 - 02:37 PM

Sorry to be the party pooper but I have to go to work in a power station Because i'm on nights altogether now AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! Keith

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: skarpi
Date: 03 Oct 99 - 04:15 PM

Just gonna be at my home . In Iceland at the Milennium. skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 03 Oct 99 - 10:33 PM

Emily, would any of that bonfire-jumpin' and dancin' and hand-holdin' be nekkid? Just wondering.

ww

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 07:35 AM

WW....Seems like every thread topic, you find a reason to git nekkid.......I like that. In this case, I'd have aome concern about a conflagration in the bush, so to speak.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: FionaN
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 07:51 AM

I need to be *outside* to welcome the new year...I'll be up on the Berkshire or Wiltshire Downs too so hopefully I can find a Beacon lighting, probably end up sleeping in the car with my beloved and a bottle of brandy...

The idea of anywhere the least bit dome shaped or involving a £60+ entry fee fills me with alarm.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 10:45 AM

Well, nekkid or wearing festive plaid.

I just seem to free-associate bonfires with nekkidness. I think it's because of my crypto-druid roots.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: emily rain
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 04:06 PM

heh. funny you should say that, ww.......

one year at school we did get naked (a few of us anyway, mostly girls), and a cop came. !!!!!!! when we saw him coming we jumped under our sweaters and looked innocent. as it turned out, he had seen the fire from the road and was just coming to make sure everything was okay. he was a nice guy; small town iowan, new to the force, no discernible predjudices towards snooty intellectual college kids. : ) he did mention that he thought he might have seen someone "without their clothes on", and cautioned us not to "burn any _parts_" wink wink nudge nudge knowattahmean? hahahahahaha! yup, good joke!

later we heard through the grapevine that he had really wished he wasn't on duty so he could join the party. LOVE! usually, though, the pagans i know try to avoid getting naked at public events, just 'cause some folks aren't comfortable with it. one girl left after the nakedness began, and later we learned that she had been sexually abused as a child. damn, did i feel guilty.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 08:11 PM

Yup. There are many reasons to know well the people with whom you get nekkid ...

ww

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: wildlone
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 08:44 PM

log into Mudcat and give you all a blow by blow account as it happens
OR
Clean the loo
Watch paint dry
Count my pubic hairs
Cut my toenails
There are so many exciting things to do in Dorset