Y2K Pie, Part One (Sorry about the format)

Sung to Don Maclean's "American Pie"

A long, long time ago...

I can still remember code

That COBOL used to make me smile

And I knew if I could truncate

Id save space with two-digit dates

And maybe it would work for awhile

But the Year 2000 made me shiver

The old COBOL could not deliver

Bad code in the mainframe

I was looking at the end game

I cant remember if I cried

When Ed Yourdon left to hide

Something touched me deep inside

The day Koskinen lied

Lie, lie, you damn government spies

Y2K aint OK and were all gonna die

No time to prepare, but we can sure as hell try

Baby, wave the old world bye-bye

Just wave the old world bye-bye

Did you read the posts on storing grain

And collecting water from the rain

Does the Old Git tell you so?

Now do you believe in what "a" wrote

Were up shit creek without a boat

Are you storing guns and grub and gold?

Can preparation save your ass?

And can you teach me to store gas and more?

Well it must be true because I read it here

Its on newswire and very clear

The "pollies" are gonna lose

I dig those "Youre Toast" Milne blues.

I was angry, white as Wonderbread

With paranoia in my head

I knew not to trust to the Feds.

The day Koskinen lied

Lie, lie, you damn government spies

Y2K aint OK and were all gonna die

No time to prepare, but we can sure as hell try

Baby, wave the old world bye-bye

Just wave the old world bye-bye

Now for the past year weve missed our dates.

But we still come here and postulate

To be continued....

-- Ken Decker (kcdecker@worldnet.att.net), November 06, 1999

Answers

even with only 4 hours sleep... this is just too good to pass up... Ken, you made me rotflmao Thanks!

-- (cannot-say@this.time), November 06, 1999.

LMAF

-- karla (karlacalif@aol.com), November 06, 1999.

Decker,

I hope this isn't becoming a habit. You've got way too much time on your hands.

-- TM (mercier7@pdnt.com), November 06, 1999.

"Now for the past year we've missed our dates" ... is this referring to all the missed deadlines when everything was supposed to be ready for Y2K?

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), November 06, 1999.

He's so full of himself that the word HUBRIS doesn't even come close to describing his own self-absorbtion.

He truly loves himself.

It's sickening.

-- Heneeds His (he@ddefla.ted), November 06, 1999.

C'mon, lighten up. I took me 15 minutes to knock off this Weird Al Yankovic tune. Wreck of the Y2K Heralds took a bit longer.... (laughter)

-- Ken Decker (kcdecker@worldnet.att.net), November 06, 1999.

I liked the other one with the audio better. I can sing along then.

this place is really getting to be neat. Popular music, the immoral bard, all related to y2k. where else could you find it all? I think I'm gonna like this meltdown. We can sit around an open fire, burn credit cards, and have a sing-along. :-)

gene

-- gene (ekbaker@essex1.com), November 06, 1999.

Decker is looking for a place in the Sequel to Toilet Paper Chronicles.

-- SH (squirrel@hunter.com), November 06, 1999.

Kudos, Mr. Decker!

Amused Regards,
Andy Ray

-- Andy Ray (andyman633@hotmail.com), November 06, 1999.

LOL Ken. But I'm beginning to think you're a closet doomer who's addicted to this place as badly as the rest of us. :)

-- a (a@a.a), November 07, 1999.