On Fri Jan-07-2011 14:42, Fred Burgess (1:226/0) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 RN> So we will get a message from you next year on December 22 just to be
 RN> sure we will all be just as safe from the end of the Mayan calendar as
 RN> we were from the Y2K and Mars hoax?  (-:

 FB> Mars hoax?  I don't remember that one, unless you are talking about
 FB> Orsen Wells.  

Orson Welles? --- NOT!  Don't you get email every once in awhile about Mars
being very close?  Here is a snippet I posted in the BAMA echo:

===CUT===
The Mars Hoax got its start in 2003 when Earth and Mars really did have a close
encounter. On Aug. 27th of that year, Mars was only 56 million km away, a
60,000-year record for martian close approaches to Earth. Someone sent an
email alerting friends to the event. The message contained some
misunderstandings and omissions-but what email doesn't? A piece of advanced
technology called the "forward button" did the rest.
===CUT===

The above has appeared regularly for years, claiming that Mars would be
brighter than the Moon.

 FB> The Y2K one was funny as heck,  Considering I had checked my 
 FB> computer out in 1988 to see if it would take the year 2000 and up.

There were programs I used regularly, but displayed the date/time function
in a funny and strange way.  Other than that, they still worked.

 FB> Not knowing that the hackers back then were doing their job very 
 FB> well and had us protected. The polecats in Washington and Billy 
 FB> Gates just wanted people to buy new computers and get away from 
 FB> Win95 and DOS based systems.

(-:

 FB> It's like all of these new "flu's" that we get every year.  I 
 FB> don't get the flu shot and I don't get sick, take the shot, and I 
 FB> am sick for over a month.  What gives there?

I don't know.  I have the same reaction.  What I've been doing to keep it
away is wash my hands a lot and that seems to be working.

 FB>> I wonder if they will let me slide the next year so I don't have to
 FB>> spend out the extra $$ since the world is going to end anyway?  ;)

 RN> Dream on.  Bureaucracies don't operate that way.  You'd be endangering
 RN> their jobs and their ability to prevent you from harming yourself (I
 RN> read that somewhere).

 FB>  Heh!  Probably true about that.  It's their job to harm us :( 

Don't you remember what Ronald Reagan said?  "The most terrifying
words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to
help."


Regards,

Roger 
--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+