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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (7922)	11/18/1997 1:06:00 AM
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>> #1 catch-phrase of 1998 << Thanks Jeff! How many shares of Amazon should I buy for each shopping cart I fill? BTW, enjoying this? amazon.com Great times call for great men. These unknown heroes who are modest, with none of the historical glamour of a Napoleon. If you analysed their character you would find that it eclipsed even the glory of Alexander the Great. Today you can meet in the streets of Prague a shabbily dressed man who is not even himself aware of his signficance in the history of the great new era. He goes modestly on his way, without bothering anyone. Nor is he bothered by journalists asking for an interview. If you asked him his name he would answer you simply and unassumingly: 'I am Svejk...' --Jaroslav Hasek Bounced Czech (FBN - $vejk)

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (7922)	11/21/1997 6:14:00 PM
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OFF TOPIC Re. America in So Many Words. amazon.com Thanks Jeff, just arrived! Excited, I turned to page 303 of the Word Index, scanning for "tech". Sorry: T tailings, 147 talk turkey, 7,219 talkie, 210 TAMALE, 40 tank, 216 TAR AND FEATHER, 74 teammate, 48 TEADDY BEAR, 203 teenage, 234 TEENAGER, 233 and so on. . . . Hmmm. . . OK, TAR AND FEATHER may be interesting . . . 1769 tar and feather The practice of smearing the body with tar and then sprinkling the tar with feathers was not original to America. As long ago as 1189, during the reign of Richard the Lionhearted, it was prescribed in the British navy as punishment for theft. But English colonials brought it ashore in North America and made such use of it that it now is thought of as American. It was described as the "present popular punishment for modern delinquents" in 1769. The term tar and feather* is ours, too, and dates from that time. Richard Thornton's 1912 American Glossary has more than a dozen examples of tar and feather for the years 1769 through 1775, starting with a newspaper account from October 30, 1769. "A person," reported the Boston Chronicle, "was stripped naked, put into a cart, where he was first tarred, then feathered." The Newport Mercury for December 20, 1773, carries a "Notice to the Committe and Tarring and Feathering": "What think you, Captain, of a halter round your neck - ten gallons of liquid tar decanted on your pate - with the feathers of a dozen wild geese laid over that to enliven your appearance?" During the American Revolution, rebels made examples of British loyalists by tarring and feathering. A memoir of 1774 refers to "the Liberty Boys, the tarring-and-feathering gentlemen." That year a notable victim was "Mr. John Malcomb, and officer of the customs at Boston, who was tarred and feathered, and lead to the gallows with a rope about his neck." The prohibition in the 1791 Bill fo Rights against "cruel and unusual punishments" may have helped discourage the practice of tarring and feathering, which seems to have vanished by the end of the nineteenth century. Tar and feather remains in our language today, but as a figure of speech for public humiliation." * techstocks.com The rewards and punishments of another life. --Locke. Bounced Czech (FBNA - Humiliate!)

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (7922)	11/21/1997 6:14:00 PM
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America in So Many Words: 1989 millennium bug. amazon.com p. 291: 1989 millennium bug "Will the millennium end in war, pestilence, famine, earthquakes, volcanoes, floods; with the sinking of California to join Atlantis under the sea, the coming of the Antichrist, the rapture of the faithful into heaven, or maybe even campaign finance reform and a balanced federal budget? Perhaps none of the above, despite many predictions. But there is one certain peril that humanity faces as the century hurtles to its end: the millennium bug. Until recently, the millions of computer programs that account for our lives paid no attention to the next century. When they needed to enter a year, they used just the last two digits: 60 for 1960, 97 for 1997. That is fine through 99, but computers will understand 00 as a return to 1900. A person who works from 1970 through 2000 will have accumulated minus 70 years toward retirement; in 2000 there will be 90 years of negative interest on money deposited in 1990. In other words, as Time explained in 1997. "The snafu - aka, the Millennium Bug - arises because corporate and government computers recognize years by their last two digits, and thus will be unable to tell the year 2000 from 1900. Fixing the problem," Time adds, "could cost $600 billion." Another name for it is the Year 2000 Problem, abbreviated Y2K, as in The Wall Street Journal from January 1997: "Cyber-apocolypse is less than three years away, if you believe the hype about the Year 2000 Poblem. Known in geek-speak as 'Y2K,' this is the bug that affects mostly older computers. . . " Year 2000 Problem is the earlier term, noted in 1991, but the 1995 millennium bug seems to be gaining ground. So the Year 2000 is coming early. Before that deadline, thousands of computer programmers will spend millions of hours and billions of dollars to keep most important corporate and government programs from catastrophe. Two years ahead of the millenium, the millenium bug will be the linguistic preoccupation of 1998." Sir, spare your threats: The bug which you would fright me with I seek. --Shakespeare. 1. a: A thousand years; especially, thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world . . . b: a period of great happiness or human perfection. --9th New Collegiate Dictionary [Universal FBN Disclaimer: techstocks.com ] Bounced Czech (FBN - Perfection!?)