Only if I fly north, south, or west.  Otherwise the whole world
will be celebrating the new millenium while I'm stuck in the
20th century.  I'll have about 23 hours to watch for stuff to
go haywire around the world before it's our turn.

Manuai o le Y2K!


Don

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> From: ferreter <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Colus porteri
> Date: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 9:31 AM
>
> Don , are you going to be the first to have the lights go out ? aren't you the first
conch-ler to see the light of a new day?
> weasel (and Y2K compliant)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Barclay <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 5:29 PM
> Subject: Re: Colus porteri
>
>
> |OK Helmut, that is undoubtedly your best joke of the
> |year.  And just in time, too, or it would have counted
> |for the next millenium, HA!
> |
> |Cheers and Happy New Year,
> |
> |
> |Don
> |
> |----------
> |> From: Helmut Nisters <[log in to unmask]>
> |> To: [log in to unmask]
> |> Subject: Colus porteri
> |> Date: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 7:06 PM
> |>
> |> Dear all,
> |>
> |> thank you best for answering. But you know me well and my self invented jokes. This
was
> |only a joke
> |> for the Millenium. Colus porteri was invented by me as a malacological name for Cole
> |Porter, a famous
> |> American composer. Hope you don't be worry about this joke and that you anything to
> |smile.
> |> with best shelling regards for a Happy New Year.
> |> Helmut from Innsbruck.
> |>
> |>
> |> Helmut "Helix" Nisters
> |> Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
> |> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Innsbruck
> |> phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
> |> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> |> web:    www.netwing.at/nisters/
> |>
> |> office:
> |> Natural History Department of the
> |> Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
> |> Feldstrasse 11 a
> |> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
> |> phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37
> |