15 Unforseen Consequences of the Millennium Bug
15. IRS
demands a hundred years of interest from stunned taxpayers.
14.
"99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" song gets stuck in infinite
loop.
13. At the stroke of midnight, Windows 99 turns back into
DOS 1.0, the Pentium V turns back into an 8088, and the Handsome User is left
holding a beautiful glass mouse.
12. Internet Movie Database now
lists "1901: A Space Odyssey."
11. Residents of Indiana have to
figure out if they're off by 999 years, 364 days and 23 hours, or 1000 years
and one hour(since we don't change our clocks).
10. Bob Dole's
age erroneously listed with only 2 digits.
9. Mel Brooks's "2000
year old man" skit stops being funny...Oops, too late.
8. Sales
of Coca Cola jumps drastically after original cocaine-laden formula becomes
legal again.
7. Software engineers point out that since
computers think it's almost 1900, we technically have to "party like it's
1899," which, frankly, doesn't seem like much fun.
6. Microsoft
declares the year 1900 to be the new standard of the "Gatesian"
calendar.
5. Jesus shows up late for His second coming, blames
it on COBOL programmers.
4. Computers temporarily fooled into
thinking Strom Thurmond is only 103.
3. First Top 5 List of the
year? "Reasons No One Would Ever Assassinate President
McKinley."
2. Using a computerized adoption service, Michael
Jackson mistakenly takes home some octogenarians.
and the Number 1
Unforeseen Consequence of the "Millennium Bug"...
1. Unexpected
demand for COBOL programmers results in severe understaffing of fast-food
restaurants.
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