Re: CHAT: Happy New Year! Parinaye!

Jeffrey Henning wrote:

> Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> comunu:
>
> > > Happy Millennium folx!
> >
> > I'm sure it will be, a year from now.  :-)
>
> I know you're being humorously pedantic, but I can be pedantic too. :-)
>
> So you can celebrate a new millennium(sense1) every second, if you like.
> And since the calendar we use wasn't even in effect for the first 400 or so
> years it stakes out as its own, and since scholars now believe Christ was
> born 4 BC, it seems like you're missing the fun to be like Arthur C. Clark
> and define the millennium the way you do.  So please join me in celebrating
> the end of the millennium that spanned from 1000 to 1999!
    Personally, I'm looking to history to solve the answer to this pedantic
debate. In 1900, they couldn't decide then either, so they had huge celebrations
in 1900 AND 1901! Any excuse to party!!

    Clint