On Jan 07, 2011 07:44pm, ROGER NELSON wrote to FRED BURGESS:

 RN> On Fri Jan-07-2011 14:42, Fred Burgess (1:226/0) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 RN>> So we will get a message from you next year on December 22 just to be
 RN>> sure we will all be just as safe from the end of the Mayan calendar as
 RN>> we were from the Y2K and Mars hoax?  (-:

 FB>> Mars hoax?  I don't remember that one, unless you are talking about
 FB>> Orsen Wells.

 RN> Orson Welles? --- NOT!  Don't you get email every once in awhile about
 RN> Mars being very close?  Here is a snippet I posted in the BAMA echo:

 RN> ===CUT===
 RN> The Mars Hoax got its start in 2003 when Earth and Mars really did have
 RN> a close encounter. On Aug. 27th of that year, Mars was only 56 million
 RN> km away, a 60,000-year record for martian close approaches to Earth.
 RN> Someone sent an email alerting friends to the event. The message
 RN> contained some misunderstandings and omissions-but what email doesn't?
 RN> A piece of advanced technology called the "forward button" did the rest.
 RN> ===CUT===

 RN> The above has appeared regularly for years, claiming that Mars would be
 RN> brighter than the Moon.

You know, I never heard that one.  I guess I wasn't friendly enough back in 03
:)  I'll start to worry when it's 56 million miles (don't do that metric stuff
:) )



 FB>> The Y2K one was funny as heck,  Considering I had checked my
 FB>> computer out in 1988 to see if it would take the year 2000 and up.

 RN> There were programs I used regularly, but displayed the date/time
 RN> function in a funny and strange way.  Other than that, they still
 RN> worked.

 FB>> Not knowing that the hackers back then were doing their job very
 FB>> well and had us protected. The polecats in Washington and Billy
 FB>> Gates just wanted people to buy new computers and get away from
 FB>> Win95 and DOS based systems.

 RN> (-:

 FB>> It's like all of these new "flu's" that we get every year.  I
 FB>> don't get the flu shot and I don't get sick, take the shot, and I
 FB>> am sick for over a month.  What gives there?

 RN> I don't know.  I have the same reaction.  What I've been doing to keep
 RN> it away is wash my hands a lot and that seems to be working.

Sad thing is, I have been doing that too, and now I'm sick.  Must have been
around somebody who was sick and I caught it.  :(


 FB>>> I wonder if they will let me slide the next year so I don't have to
 FB>>> spend out the extra $$ since the world is going to end anyway?  ;)

 RN>> Dream on.  Bureaucracies don't operate that way.  You'd be endangering
 RN>> their jobs and their ability to prevent you from harming yourself (I
 RN>> read that somewhere).

 FB>>  Heh!  Probably true about that.  It's their job to harm us :(

 RN> Don't you remember what Ronald Reagan said?  "The most terrifying words
 RN> in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to
 RN> help."

Loved it when Mulder said it (X-Files)  :)  But no, I don't remember him
saying that ... WOW!  Where the heck was I back then?  Oh, I was in the Navy
:) didn't have time to listen much to anything but the officers :(

Fred

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