Sodom
Wade T. Smith wrote:
> We can all sit calmly knowing, can't we? that December 31, 1999, will
> pass, and that January 1, 2000, will come, and there will be parties, and
> gatherings, and maybe even some suicides, homicides, children conceived,
> drunk drivers on the roads, drunks in your back yard, and maybe even some
> fireworks over your town.
>
> We can all smugly sit and say, tsk, tsk, we'll just have to do this
> again, next year, when it will be _correct_ to do all this....
>
> And we will all laugh about anyone saying much of anything different.
>
> Then again, these happenstances of a cultural numbering system don't
> happen every day....
>
> Stephen Jay Gould has a laissez-faire attitude about the whole thing.
> Sounds like a plan....
>
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