Yup
2000 is the magic number that has our imagination all right.  I suppose the real
techie or pedantic types will have their bash next year, and the party types
will have another bash just for fun.  It's purely symbolic - the 2 with three
zeroes is way more exciting in our imagination than 2001.  Think about when your
old 'beater' turned the odometer back to 0000000.  Same kind of excitement -
there's nothing else to it except the look of it and our feeling about it.
It is only one religious group's opinion anyway (made dominant by our global
commerce) - the Jewish people are somewhere in their fifth millenium (I think)
and the Muslims still in their second, and the Chinese....
Anyway for the SUPER picky, if you really think that exactly 2000 years after
Christ's birth is the important thing, then religious historians will tell you
that we missed that a few years ago.
Whichever year is important to you and whatever you chose to eat and drink to
celebrate (those messages were making me hungry), I hope you are all having a
great start to 2000 (new millenium or not).

Nora in Calgary


"Thomas E. Eichhorst" wrote:

> Sarah,
>
> I agree with Ferreter (as unusual as that may be), your aiming at windmills.
> The issue has been debated all over the place, but "Scientific American"
> called 2000 the new millennium, and that's good enough for me.
>
> Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA (where the gunfire was so intense around
> midnight (Silver City), the cops took shelter rather than hunting down the
> perps -- and you thought the wild west was gone!  A local family heard a
> loud crash, went in the kitchen and found a small hole in the roof and a
> blown up box of cereal with a bullet in the bottom)