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Venezuela is consulting with psychiatrists on how to explain to the public what might happen with the Year 2000 computer bug...

...Venezuela's national coordinator, Hugo Castellanos, the government doesn't know how to communicate with the people about the Y2K problem.

"We don't know how to explain to the large population now what is going to happen, because we don't know what's going to happen," he said. "We are talking to psychologists, psychiatrists in order to know how to reach the people."

Curiouser and curiouser. If only Sigmund Freud were still with us...

-- regular (zzz@z.z), June 22, 1999

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-- regular (zzz@z.z), June 22, 1999.

They're making a BIG mistake talking to psych pros about this. Never can get two of those to agree on anything. They should be talking to morticians. *Those* guys know how to deal with sad, sad news, and console the living with comforting words about the deceased, or soon to be deceased.

-- Gordon (gpconnolly@aol.com), June 22, 1999.

PROZAC... the silver bullet.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), June 22, 1999.

My lawyer, Whiplash, is currently heading to South America. I think he figures that there will be some interesting malpractice suits...

It is an interesting question: Which can do more damage during Y2K? Lawyers or psychiatrists?

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), June 23, 1999.