Posted on 01/19/2018 7:47:16 AM PST by Salvation
Remember the WORLD -including ALL the ‘chicken little types’ were planning for and predicting a grand party while the doom & gloomers pitched in also— for 1/1/00 and some ‘party pooper’ suggest the ‘new’ century didn’t start till 2001.
I don’t know, and there was a lot of foolishness going on.
I was spending all my money because ‘they’ said the banks and computers would crash and no cash registers etc would work at 0000 01/01/00
Good question on 0000 or 0001
0000 is considered midnight
0001 is considered tomorrow - well today....
Like the old out of the 10 days, all end in Y except one
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
YESTERDAY
TODAY
TOMORROW.....AND WE WON’T WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW BECAUSE IT NEVER COMES....
Its on of Hillary's favorites.
Or my liberal brother’s favorite:
Any thinking person would have to agree........
(Ya’can bet I ain’t gunna agree.)
It’s logical that the new century begins at midnight on December 31, 2000. Because there is no year 0. It goes from 1 B.C. straight to 1 A.D. (or A.D. 1 if you’re a stickler).
I have looked up “turn of the century” everywhere and nobody seems to know which century is turning, the old one or the new one. I would vote for the old one, like a page in a calendar being turned. But I can’t find it anywhere.
Let’s circle back and level set the value proposition.
I have to correct that all the time. People say “sixteenth century” when they mean the 1600s, or vice versa.
Here’s another, similar one:
Someone is turning 70, and they report it as “entering his seventh decade.” Um, no. He’s entering his eighth.
But not until the end of that year.
“Your response to this thread is value-added.”
I remember when I worked for GE in the late ‘90s. My boss asked me to email someone at Corporate with a request. The response was something like “we can’t do that; it isn’t ‘value added’”. WTF? I asked my boss, an old-school, non-PC, gruff older guy (who was great to work for), “What the heck does ‘value added’ mean?” He said he wasn’t sure, but figured it meant “Don’t bother me”.
I guess I wrote poorly. Sorry.
I was complaining about “tow” vice “toe.”
“I can’t stand people who speak in a perfectly normal American accent, and then when encountering a Spanish word or name, switch into a phony exaggerated Hispanic accent, and then go back to their normal speech patterns once they get past the Spanish words.”
I have a similar problem. I lived in Japan for over 20 years, and conducted most of my business and personal life in Japanese.
Now, if I am not careful, I pronounce Japanese words correctly and create just the impression you describe.
I guess it is all good....
Like on a birthday.
Someone says ‘I am a year older today’
“Yes, that may be so but actually you are only a day older than your were yesterday”
Everybody likes a little arse but not everyone likes a smart arse...or, like we used to say ‘Sexual Intellectual’ <: <: <:
Like ‘they’ say about old age...
Don’t fight old age, it is a privilege that not all get to enjoy.
I seriously never expected to see 30 so I am in my 48th year of ‘bonus’ time...
“Like ‘they’ say about old age...”
Winston tastes good, as a cigarette should.
I used to have “Tommy” memorized, until time eroded my memory.
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ’is country” when the guns begin to shoot;
An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool – you bet that Tommy sees!
ROFL!!
Headline with error:
Government shutdown begins as senators continue intensive talks into the night.
Should be
Government shutdown begins as senators continue intense talks into the night.
Sustainable
I’m surprised no one has mentioned this little annoyance:
“And so it begins...”
*** “All I know is that back in the day we never said BACK IN THE DAY!!!” ***
Back in the day we didn’t put up with smart alecs like you
:^)
We used to say, “Way back when...”
Now you have 22-year-old mutton-heads on the tube talking about “back in the day...”
What do they mean, last Thursday?
My short list:
“Roger that”
Anything that turns a noun into a verb, especially “gifting”
“Reach out”
Epic
Game changer
Utterly destroyed
Narrative
Walk back
There are many, many more.
Forgot one, Brutal Takedown
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