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Dear Netters,
A friend sent this to me.  I don't know who wrote it originally.  It gives=
 a
neat Y2K explanation for all grades and would incorporate easily into a
presentation  (and would also incorporate a little humor :-).

Sing to the tune of =93Gilligan's Island.=94

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
of the doom that is our fate.
That started when programmers used
two digits for a date,
two digits for a date.

Main memory was smaller then;
hard disks were smaller, too.
Four digits are extravagant,
so let's get by with two
so let's get by with two.

This works through 1999
the programmers did say,
unless we rewrite before that
it all will go away
it all will go away.

But Management had not a clue,
it works fine now, you bet!
a rewrite is a straight expense,
we won't do it just yet
we won't do it just yet.

Now when 2000 rolls around
it all goes straight to @#%&
for zero's less than ninety-nine
as anyone can tell
as anyone can tell.

The mail won't bring your pension check
it won't be sent to you
when you're no longer sixty-eight
but minus thirty-two
but minus thirty-two.

The problems we're about to face
are frightening, for sure
and reading every line of code's
the only certain cure
the only certain cure.

(key change, big finish)
There's not much time
there's too much code
(and Cobol-coders, few)
when the century is finished with
we may be finished too
we may be finished too.

Eight thousand years from now I hope
that things weren't left too late
and people aren't then lamenting
four digits for a date
four digits for a date.
_____________

Jan McGee, LMS
Mitchell Elementary School
West Monroe, LA  71292
JMcgee8038@aol.com

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