Yup.......It's true....

I opened a bag of chocolate chip cookies last night. The package said there were guaranteed to have 1000 chocolate chips in it.

The good news.......every one of those chips was compliant, and I personally guarantee that none of those chips will in fact cause any Y2K problems whatsoever.

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), December 08, 1998

Answers

I did exactly the same thing with a bag of potato chips. All were completely compliant but I have heard some scary stories about buffalo chips.

-- cody varian (cody@y2ksurvive.com), December 08, 1998.

The problem with these chips is a delayed non-compliancy.

Soon after one finds one's pants are no longer com-pliant.

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-- Leska (allaha@earthlink.net), December 08, 1998.

What you ate all of them! The confusion over here is that what you call chips the Brits call crisps, what you call french fries we call chips.

-- Richard Dale (rdale@figroup.co.uk), December 09, 1998.

Don't worry Richard, you Brits will learn how to speak properly someday.

-- Uncle Deedah (oncebitten@twiceshy.com), December 09, 1998.

No wonder there were no problems with your chocolate chips...all of the problems are with EMBEDDED chips.

You see, it's only the chocolate chips stuck in cookies that pose the real threat.

-- Sara Nealy (saran@ptd.net), December 09, 1998.

I thought you Brits called them biscuits?

-- Paul Davis (davisp1953@yahoo.com), December 09, 1998.

Paul,

"Biscuits" are cookies in the UK, but the Aussies call them "Bickies" (you'd never catch a true Aussie sounding like a "Pommy"!) Then there's the "Violet Crumble" which is an Aussie Butterfinger and you don't want to know about Vegemite! (trust me, it's horrid)

A common language? I guess. . .

-- Hardliner (searcher@internet.com), December 09, 1998.

Violet Crumble??........

Rings a bell. I think I went out with a Violet Crumble once or twice.

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), December 09, 1998.

Bufalo chips aren't the problem, it's cow chips that are you fool! They're everywhere! When was the last time you saw a Bufalo chip lying around? Problem with those darn cow chips is that kids make freezbees out of them.

-- Chris (catsy@pond.com), December 09, 1998.

Hey we sometimes have Bickies over here, usually "choccy bickies" usually when you're offering them to a 5 year old. POM orginally meant Prisoner Of the Motherland, ie convicts from whom all aussies are descended, except for those enterprising Brits (oxymoron?) who got a #10 assisted passage over there (by sea!) back in the 60s. When they were desperate for anyone after having digested the POMs.

POM's ie now ordinary Brits are regarded with a great deal of contempt by real aussies, unless you say how marvellous you think their country is. I suppose they're no different in that respect from the rest of the world!

Aussies haven't got a clue what happens in the rest of the world, nothing wrong in that. Except they have some sort of inkling that something's wrong in Japan (as it affects them directly).

-- Richard Dale (rdale@figroup.co.uk), December 09, 1998.

Sara sez:"No wonder there were no problems with your chocolate chips...all of the problems are with EMBEDDED chips.

You see, it's only the chocolate chips stuck in cookies that pose the real threat."

That's rich! Thanks for the chuckles

-- Lewis (aslanshow@yahoo.com), December 09, 1998.

But Chris you said it was the popcorn that stucks to my fingers that was causing the problems.

Embedded chips cause only problems when you roll over on them in the bed.

-- Robert A. Cook, P.E. (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), December 10, 1998.