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To: Bill Wexler who wrote (7791)6/4/1997 12:23:00 AM
From: Robert Lawkins   of 18263
 
This is the be all and end all to justify the enormity of the dreaded Y2K problem.

For all of you doubters, please visit this site and you shall see the light!

westergaard.com:8080/Y2K/y2k0827.html

Just an excerpt of what we can expect as the end draws near:

<<Most computers now believe "00" stands for 1900 which, for example, recently caused the return of canned herring shipped from Norway to Brazil. It was marked "For consumption before 00-08-01." The computers read 00-08-01 as August 1, 1900, assumed it had expired 96 years ago, and shipped it back.

The problem is enormous and projected to cost $600 billion to fix assuming it can be fixed by December 31, 1999 which is improbable. What nobody is talking about is what does this do to the economy? Our view is that already by mid-1998 the panic buttons will start going off???>>

Wow, $600 billion for canned herring alone! This problem could run into the, the, what comes after hundreds of trillions?

Just think, people eat a lot more tuna fish. The tuna solution should go for at least $10 trillion.

This is too funny to make up!

<<Don't take this lightly, folks. This year 2000 problem may be to the economy of the new century as the market crash of 1929 was to the economy is the 1930s. You read it here first!!>>
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