------- Forwarded Message [snip junk] Y zero K Bug Translated from the Latin Letter from Roma, January 18, 1 B.C. Dear Cassius: Are you still working on the Y-zero-K problem? This change from BC to AD is giving us a lot of headaches and time has run out. I don't know how people will cope with working the wrong way around. Having been working happily downwards forever, now we have to start thinking upwards. You would think that someone would have thought of it earlier and not left it to us to sort out at the last minute. I spoke to Caesar the other evening. He was livid that Julius hadn't done something about it when he was sorting out the calendar. He said he could see why Brutus turned nasty. We called in some Consultants but they simply said that the abacus was not built for continuing downwards using minus BC, especially since only those crazy Arabs are using negative numbers. What a laugh. What is a negative number? Clearly it�s imaginary. The Consultants, as usual, charged a fortune for doing nothing useful. I hope we will not have to throw out all of our hardware tablets and start over. Microhard will make another fortune out of that. The money lenders are paranoid of course. They have been told that all usury rates will invert and they will have to pay their clients to take out loans. It's an ill wind....As for myself, I just can't see the sand in the hourglass flowing upwards. We have heard that there are three wise men in the east working on this problem but, unfortunately, they will not arrive until it's all over. We have heard that all horses have been stabled for fear that they will run backwards and damage the chariots with a possible loss of lives. Some even say the world is coming to an end. Others say that the Gauls will attack and the galleys won't sail. A few of the centurions are gathering supplies and heading for caves in the hills. Anyway, we are still working on this bastard Y-zero-K problem. I will send you a parchment if anything further develops. If you have any ideas, please let me know. Plutorius - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW DO I SUBSCRIBE? Just send a message to [email protected] saying SUBSCRIBE FUNNIES and giving your name. HOW DO I UNSUBSCRIBE? ditto -- but say UNSUBSCRIBE FUNNIES and giving your name. WHERE DO I SEND JOKES? [email protected] but send the funny LEGAL STUFF: With extremely rare exceptions, I am merely passing jokes on, and do not claim any copyright whatsoever. Where I know it, I try to give the joke�s ancestry. Enjoy these in the spirit of fun. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- End of Forwarded Message