Taking Y2K Too Seriously Contest - The Winners Here was the idea behind the contest... each submission was required to contain three declarations of the type: If you... (your amusing idea) then you might be taking Y2K too seriously! Here are the winners:

1st prize

Declan Houton

If your friends are afraid to discuss their New Year's Eve party plans in your company, then you might be taking Y2K too seriously!

If someone says they don't see what all the fuss is about and you spend the next hour explaining it to them, then you might be taking Y2K too seriously!

If you've considered working on New Year's Day for FREE, then you might be taking Y2K too seriously!

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2nd prize

Leo J. Hoffman

If the only way you can tell time is by counting backward, then you might be taking Y2K too seriously!

If you stopped making your dog perform tricks because you hate to say "rollover," then you might be taking Y2K too seriously!

If you can't formulate a complete sentence without using any of the following words: contingency, embedded, due diligence, compliance or leap year then you might be taking Y2K too seriously!

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3rd prize -- We have a tie!!

#1 Steve Avalos-Bock

If you think Santa Claus' checking his list twice is an acceptable form of Y2K contingency planning, then you're taking Y2K too seriously.

If you have more than three Y2K related posters, calendars, or other art objects on your office wall, then you're taking Y2K too seriously.

If you have anything related to Y2K on your car's license plates, then you're taking Y2K too seriously.

#2 Celeste Schwendiman

If you've asked your parents to teach you how to operate a slide ruler, you might be taking Y2K too seriously.

If you are re-writing your high school year book by replacing all occurrences of your graduation slogan "feeling fine in '89" with "feeling fine in 1989", you might be taking Y2K too seriously.

If you've contacted Fox and asked them to mail you the transcripts of all the Ally McBeal episodes scheduled to air after January 1, 2000, you might be taking Y2K too seriously.

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Honourable Mentions:

#1 Roger Counts

If you're thinking about starting an abacus superstore then you might be taking Y2K too seriously.

If you're afraid to type the letters "Y2K" into a browser search because that might give your computer the bug, then you might be taking Y2K too seriously.

#2 Eric Holmquist

If your neighbor describes you by saying, "Lately he's been kinda...skittish", you might be taking Y2K too seriously.

#3 Debbie Banks

If you've marked your kid's ages on their foreheads in indelible ink... then you might be taking Y2K too seriously!

#4 Jim McCloud

If you are looking at your friends and neighbors as possible food, you may be taking Y2K too seriously.

#5 Larry Schneller

If you have rewired all of your clocks to run backward then you may be taking Y2K too seriously.

#6 Pat Looney

If the term 'windowing technique' no longer has anything to do with being up wind of the cows, then you might be taking Y2K too seriously.

If you now think of crossover planning as something other than how to get over a five string barbed wire fence, then you might be taking Y2K too seriously.

#7 Sheryl S. Roth

If you've consented to let the Family Reunion be at your place this year because you think the end is near; you're taking Y2K too seriously!

#8 Yvonne Van Brimmer

If your husband can't put his slippers under the bed because of food storage, then you might be taking y2k too seriously.

If you suddenly refuse to landscape your home with anything not edible, you may be taking y2k too seriously.

Congratulations to all the winners and a "thanks for the chuckle" to everyone who submitted an entry.

Yours truly,

Peter de Jager

-- Ken Decker (kcdecker@worldnet.att.net), November 09, 1999

Answers

Ken,

I found this very funny. Had this forum known of the contest, I am sure that someone here could have easily walked away with first prize.

-- (cannot-say@this.time), November 09, 1999.

Thanks for lighten our day up, Ken.

May god watch over all of us... Always...

-- STFrancis (STFrancis@heaven.com), November 09, 1999.

If you post 5 threads back to back then you are taking y2k to seriously

Thanks for the smile Ken

-- Brian (imager@home.com), November 09, 1999.

ifthe collapse of civilization scares you, even after you have prepared for ti, then you are taking y2k too seriously!

-- jeremiah (braponspdetroit@hotmail.com), November 09, 1999.

Gee, looks like deJager didn't bother going to the most recent conference. They have suggested companies stop remediation, in favor of using the budget to man themselves for the cascading failures.

http://www.brainstorm-group.com/Y2K_NY99.html

It ain't over yet. Not by a long stretch, but why not laugh now. In less than 60 days laughing will become a luxury.

-- OR (orwelliator@biosys.net), November 09, 1999.