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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Eddy who wrote (7828)	11/15/1997 10:29:00 AM
From: Done, gone.	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 13949

Bounced Czech perspective. Last nite, feelin' Top-of the-world-TPRO-ma, I went to dinner with some folks I know. Walking on air. Anyway, at the table sat a constitutional lawyer who has argued at least a dozen cases before the Supreme Court, and a VP of a HUGE Other People's Money Company. Y2k came up (yeah, I brought it up). I said it like I think is, and got what drives me absolutely bonkers these days - smirks. Both of these incredibly itelligent, but y2k-ignorant people, looked down their nose at me - the way we look at three-year-olds when they say something really stupid. I ignored it, and went on. The VP cut me short, and called me Chicken Little. I shut up for about fifteen minutes, and listened to the drivel that usually gets tossed around a dinner table - and thought. When the time seemed right, I asked the VP if I can tell a story. "Sure you can," was the answer, again with that LOOK. I ignored it, and told my story: "Back in the Czech Republic, before WWII, my Jewish grandmother's cousin, who now still lives in England, (retired from his position as the president of a giant import/export conglomorate), realized that Hitler was a major threat. He explained, he begged, he pleaded with everyone to pack their bags and leave - while there was still a chance. They were all extremely rich, packing and leaving would have been a piece of cake. Everyone called him Chicken Little. He left for England - alone. All 43 of the other family members died in gas chambers. Grandmother, my mother, and my aunt were the only ones that survived concentration camps - by a miracle." Silence. Then the conversation turned to drivel again... Why am I telling you this? Because I agree with Cheryl, aka C.K. Houston: we are all headed for the y2k gas chambers UNLESS the VP's and constitutional lawyers, and the rest of the leaders and followers in our society get educated, and help solve this problem. I am going to spend a lot less time watching the ticks, and a lot more time doing my part to get the y2k problem solved. I want to urge you all to please do the same. One wise in council, one in action brave. --Pope. Bounced Czech (FBN - Action!)