Vern Faulkner wrote in a message to Patrick McCullough:
 PM>  The next century doesn't start until 2001.  Which is, of course,
 PM>  why Arthur Clarke called his book/movie 2001.
 PM>  I'm sure everyone will go nuts on New Year's Eve 1999, but they'll
 PM>  be a year off for the new century. 
VF> The way I have found to deal with the people who can't wrap their
VF> minds around the concept is actually quite simple.  Its a flowchart
VF> thing. 
 Ahhh...
VF>                        Do you have kids?
VF>         No.                                            Yes.
VF>How old were you when you                  Did you celebrate their first
VF>were first born? When did your             birthday when they were born?
VF>parents celebate your first birthday?      Or did you wait a year?
VF>Why then?
 This is about the best way to explain it I've ever seen.  Mind if I
 borrow it?  :)
 Patrick
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