Got Plans for the Milennium?

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 03:26 PM

LOL at Jeri. Love the Martha Stewart concept!

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 03:26 PM

hopefully, survival.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: emily rain
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 03:08 PM

i've been invited to new orleans for the new year (i'm not even going to _try_ and spell the m-word). i don't know; going within a hundred miles of the quintessential party town on the quintessential party night may be quintessentially suicidal.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: lamarca
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 02:12 PM

Oh, yes, Jeri - did you realize that those lovely but worthless post-Y2K-crash stock certificates can be used to make exquisite wall paper or elegant stationery? And the artistic uses of multicolored circuit-board scraps? Quite lovely and intricate place mats can be macrame'd out of the many-colored strands of defunct phone cable. Why, the possibilities are endless!

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 01:55 PM

Lamarca, have you ever thought of doing a "Martha Stewart Does Y2K" book? How to attractively decorate your dead PC and convert it to a planter? How to smash up all your light bulbs and place them strategically so they crunch when your neighbors come to kill you for food? A cooking section - "Marinated Elmer and Sylvia," or "Pookie Pot Pie?"

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: lamarca
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 01:38 PM

Lessee, what did all those Y2K sites recommend? Oh, yeah -
1. Clean all the guns.
2. Inventory the huge stock of toilet paper accumulated for barter (minimum 150 rolls).
3. Kill all the neighborhood cats and dogs, salt down the meat, make soap out of the fat and wood ashes and shoes out of the hide (Martha Stewart's planning on making gilded baskets out of the bones...)
4. Hold a ceremonial bonfire burning Bill Gates in effigy...

Seriously, our local folk shtetl will probably gather together and toast in 2,000 A.D. (After Disney?) with the motley assortment of fizzy alcoholic beverages we have accumulated and then nod off to sleep at 12:05...

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 12:52 PM

Thanks George and Jeri. I'll stop beating myself up over my little faux pas . millennium

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Splenky
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 12:22 PM

Couple of bottles of wine; couple of movies; fall asleep on the couch with my wife.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Barbara
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 12:19 PM

I'll be singing in the woods with my friends, where I am every NY's, near Santa Cruz CA -- at the San Francisco Folk Music Club's annual NY's camp out -- Camp Harmony. Whatever happens or doesn't, I can't think of a better place to be.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 12:07 PM

I wont be going to any parties, I usually have aquiet night in with My hub and kidneys. This year I will drink a little more and sing a little louder. Hope there will be something scottish on the tele

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 11:57 AM

LEJ, it happens to everybody. I've done far worse.

I just noted this New Year's Day (the beginning of the last year in the millennium, and the beginning of Y2K - gratuitous pedantia, but I can't help it.) falls on a Saturday. New Year's Eve is Fri night. Good time to stay off the roads, especially if all the traffic lights are going to go off at midnight. Maybe I'll just watch CNN until the TV goes dead. :-)

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: GeorgeH
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 11:45 AM

LonesomeEJ . . I don't reckon it's important enough to worry about whether you spelt it right or wrong . . .

G.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 11:36 AM

Yeah, damn it, I spelled it wrong. AND I spelled it wrong in the THREAD TITLE where it will be an unchangeable example of my ignorance for ever more. Millennium, millennium, millennium!

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: NSC
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 11:04 AM

Well - Here in Ireland Pat Sheridan has organised a huge hooly in Achill where there will a piped procession around the Island.

Loads of singing etc.

The adventure school has been fully booked out with outdoor water sports, fishing competitions, dances beach bar bq's etc.

Sorry folks - it's fully booked for 6 days 26th through 2nd.

George

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: annamill
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 10:44 AM

Private party on Long Island. PARTEEEE! What else? Glenn is playing with some old friends AND getting paid for it.

Love, annap

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 10:37 AM

Well I certainly won't be going to the Millennium Dome or any of the overpriced events on offer. I'll be spending it as every New Year with the spouse's sister & brother-in-law & ma-in-law & possibly occasional glimpses of nephews passing through, getting ratarsed (ahem, I mean enjoying convivial company), possibly "singing" the occasional song (my s-in-l encourages me to the despair of the others!) and going for bracing walks along the Blackwater estuary in Essex to blow away any lingering ill-effects.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: JedMarum
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 10:33 AM

I'll be working ... but if I weren't I'd be sitting at home watching Marx Brothers movies, eating chips and Yankee Guacamole ... maybe having a sip of champagne, but certainly getting a New Year kiss from my inamorata!

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 09:51 AM

well, there's about 18 hours of Y2K going to hit the REST of the world before it gets to me, so I guess what I do at midnight will depend on whether I see New Zealand and Australia shutting down as Dec 31st progresses. Perhaps I'll just call Allan C and see if he needs help..(he left out flossing the dog's teeth and contemplating his eschatology)

Then NEXT year, I'll call Charlie Baum and see how it went..maybe we can study some old maps of New Jeesey.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Allan C.
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 08:39 AM

1. Try to see how many times I can flush the toilet in the last 60 seconds of the year

2. Read the "Y" section of the dictionary

3. Click onto the Hamster Dance page and try to learn the moves

4. Catalog the different flavors of burps created by various imported beers

5. Time my watch's second hand

6. Practice French-kissing my left hand

7. Memorize the train schedule

8. See how many times in a row I can quickly say "millennium" without messing up

9. Phone the information operator in Fancy Farm, Kentucky and inquire about the weather

10. Alphabetize my spices

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 08:29 AM

I was getting very vexed over this one. Then I realised that I don't want to spend New Year turnover in a house with extended family (bah humbug)& a TV. Then I started thinking about what we (the immediate family) like to do. So now I am proposing to take a long walk along the riverside, or perhaps find a beacon up on the Berkshire Downs or something. Something outdoor, mellow & which will mean something special to us. Even if the weather is cat. Anyone know of any beacon fires or such?? Kris

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: GeorgeH
Date: 29 Sep 99 - 07:23 AM

Well over in the UK the EFDSS Cecil Sharp House Ceilidh would be worth going to at any time (gbp 25 a head for 12 hours of dancing to superb bands isn't bad) - so we're breaking with tradition and celebrating new year this year.

G.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Sep 99 - 11:59 PM

Charlie, don't knock it. We could have two years' worth of millennium parties to go to - the popular one and the real one. (And I'm the only one to spell it right so far, nyah, nyah!)

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 28 Sep 99 - 11:24 PM

Well, for one thing I'll turn 45,

I'll also eat black eyed peas and corn bread. I missed eating my black eyed peas one year and what a disaster that year was! I'd hate to not have any luck for a whole millineum.

JAB

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 28 Sep 99 - 08:54 PM

I've still got 15 months to plan for the Millenium New Year's Eve--no sense making plans too early. We'll see how everyone survives the 2000 New Year's first.

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Sep 99 - 08:44 PM

I was thinking of getting my video camera out to record the implosion of this monitor and the meltdown of my hard drive. Then I was going to check with my bank to be sure all of the 1.7 billion was deposited in my account and with the credit bureau to assure that my new virtual files under the names "Hugh G. Rection" and "Ben Dover" were in place. Barrring any of that, I'm considering evacuating my bladder and winding my watch.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Graham Pirt
Date: 28 Sep 99 - 08:23 PM

Well I'm going to a barn dance in Derbyshire where the music will be provided by around twenty brilliant musicians ranging from about 16 to 20 years of age. (including my lad Sam) The new millenium is in safe hands!

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 28 Sep 99 - 08:13 PM

So far I have no plans, other than LEJ's option #3. I feel so pathetic. I'm certain something will come up. (I may do the right thing and volunetter to work.) Kesey's place sounds pretty inviting ...

ww

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: MAG (inactive)
Date: 28 Sep 99 - 08:08 PM

Well, my folk society has an annual dance on NYE. This year, the board voted to have optional formal dress and the usual potluck supper to be sit-down gourmet.

A sit-down gourmet potluck supper, and doing a balance & swing in a formal?? I suggested bringing sleeping bags and having a sleepover, in case none of us could get home.

MA

Subject: RE: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 28 Sep 99 - 07:47 PM

I normaly like to be out in a pub for a few drinks on a New Years Eve but unless I can find somebody who is putting on a good (music) party, I think that I probably will stay at home and cook myself a nice meal and have a bottle of red wine thi time.

The best other alternative that I can think of where I live is to walk to the top of the Great Orme, make a bonfire and see it come in from there.

Jon

Subject: Got Plans for the Milennium?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 28 Sep 99 - 06:59 PM

I was wondering what plans we all have for probably the BIGGEST New Years Eve Celebration of our lives, or of anybody's life, possibly going back to the amazing blow-out thrown by William the Conqueror's Grandparents for the 1st Millenium.

Here are some options i'm considering:

1)Going to Bethlehem and sitting up all night in a lawn chair to await the Second Coming.

2)Chartering a sailboat,then watching the powergrid collapse from 10 miles out as the bonfires start to swell.

3)Drinking a bottle of Champagne, then nodding off on the couch so that I am totally unconscious as Dick Clark starts the New Years Count-down.

Anybody else? Of course, I don't have to remind you that we've all been invited to Ken Kesey's place in Oregon. So we've got that going for us.

LEJ