A post of mine you might want to read over at TB2000

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I was up until four o'clock this morning getting this forum going (always remembering that my primary objective is to get this book out the door, especially because I "got another call, etc., today. . .") but for the record here, I'm getting a bit tired of all of these silly debates about "who was right, who was wrong," etc.

Why?

Pretty darn simple, in my book. (Literally and figuratively. Ha!)

At no time in America's history since the "Cold War Duck and Cover Era" has this country been more aware of our potential large--we are talkin' big hunking LARGE--vulnerabilities.

Let me ask you this: How is it now that so many Americans NOW know that--in an emergency situation--the proper amount of water they should have in their homes equals a minimimum of one gallon per person per day? How many Americans now know how to PURIFY water in an emergency?

Answering my own question:

Y2k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I could ramble on and on here, but it's all saved for the book.

In the meantime, however,

To once again quote "Dirt Road," who was one of my favorite posters at "Debunky,"

GIVE THE "FREAKIN'" DOOMERS A BREAK!

(To a borrow phrase from someone, "Granny rant mode off now." I am now taking deep breaths.)

Go here should you wish to do so:

Censored at M. Hyatt's site

As always,

:)

-- FM/MM (scipublic@.aol.com), January 05, 2000

Answers

Now that some folks are beginning to recognize that Marianne Michaels is actually

FM

I think I may need to start posting my responses using the handle I always used at TB2000.

'Has been quite the learning experience these past couple of days, trying to figure out how to construct this forum. For sure, I'm not there yet.

(In fact, I'm not really sure I have been "outed" yet!)

At any rate, Diane Squire and Rick Cowles informed me today that any time I post with the email address I used to create this forum (graciously hosted by Phil Greenspun--let us not forget our sponsor), my posts would automatically appear "first" in any particular thread. This is not a good thing. Disrupts the flow.

So, from now on guys, I remain:

FM

:)

P.S. Still composing categories for threads. Suggestions welcome!

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), January 05, 2000.


Marilyn, By the time I decided to buy your first book at Amazon, they were sold out. (Is this right?) Or were they sold in the first place? Is this a second book or finally trying to get out the first book. I really wanted to buy and read it and was dissapointed. Oh well. I'll wait. I found this site so I'll peek in once a day to see what's up.

Well, I was a 8+ certified doomer prepped to the hilt. Now I'm waiting to see what happens with things (especially stock market) before I get back to normal thoughts. LOL Actually, trying to revamp my doomer way of thinking so I can pretend like I was always "one of the sheeple". Hey, do I want to be like that? I like the way I am! Hey, when is that solar flare going to knock out part of the grid?

-- Debi (LongTimeLurker@shy.com), January 05, 2000.


Just wanted to say "Thank You!" This new forum is rather refreshing after going through the warfare occuring on 'timebomb' forum. I see the old familiar names again. I had wondered where they had gone. After all, posters, lurkers, pollies, GI's and DGI's have somehow become part of a larger family. I will save my prep stories for another day. But I will tell you one thing: It started me on a wonderful new adventure!

Grace

-- gracie (grace17@pacbell.net), January 05, 2000.


Yo, Debi!

Now we gotta get ready for the ASTEROIDS! (Just kidding!)

No, my book was not sold out. I made the decision to pull it from the market shortly after I was just about "Ready to Roll." (Pun absolutely intended.)

The "story behind the story" of why it was pulled, is only slightly known to a handful of people.

Frankly, my "DH" (and those of you familiar with Y2K "forum lingo" know what that little acronym means) was only informed on New Year's Eve, 1999.

I waited until then to tell him, because it was a happy occasion (YEP! WE WEREN'T ALL DEAD YET! HEE.), and also because DH had been through this before.

He was the one--when we were newlyweds--who received the call from the police informing him that a certain family member needed to meet with detectives immediately in the middle of the night.

Hint: Have you read anything RECENTLY about what Peter de Jager is now making public about the public response to his endeavors? It isn't necessary to research it, if you don't already know it.

The point is this: I was a "public figure" for many years.

In one of my permanent file cabinet drawers rests a police file dated approximately fourteen years ago.

Frankly, I do not ever wish to view it again. Proof positive for those who may consider this "stream of consciousness post" PROOF, I just opened that drawer to merely document the date, and decided to promptly shut it.

I do not wish to read that police file ever again in my lifetime. I keep it because I need to do so based upon the advice of the detective who finally "solved" the case.

So Debi, have I even remotely answered your question?

Gosh I hope so.

"Old Git," among others, knows how "I ramble

:)

P.S. For some reason I do not understand why people always confuse the names "Marian" and "Marianne" with "Marilyn."

Might be because Marilyn Monroe was such an Icon!

Anyway, for the record, here dears:

I am

MARIANNE!

:)

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), January 05, 2000.


And I REMAIN INTENSELY FRUSTRATED that you came up with the lame excuse of a sleep-over when you COULD have been having a WONDERFUL time at Dominics in Ann Arbor

C

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), January 06, 2000.



Chuck!

You had that "Ann Arbor thingie" on Halloween!

I have a small child!

Yo, DOOD, (to borrow a phrase from Stephen Poole,(sp) who was pretty nasty from time to time but came up with some fairly balanced cartoons over this time-span we shall call.....uh...what SHALL we call it?) where was your brain in arranging the "get-together" on Halloween?

:)

To borrow a phrase from "Greybear,"

"Got Kids?"

LOL!

:)

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), January 06, 2000.


Marianne,

Yes, you did answer my question and I thank you :) I'll look forward to the revised book when it comes out. My name also is mispelled as Debbie instead of Debi. It's my own fault for giving myself a nickname that I considered short, sweet and to the point instead of my real name Debra (which is usually mispelled as Deborah anyway :)

DH...would that be Dear hubby? Yup, got one of those too! Thankfully mine (who I met on the internet 6 years ago) was a GI who turned the other way as I spent our last dollars on preps.

Glad to see Old Git and other familiar faces lurking here. Old Git IS one of those rare people you'd be proud to call friend.

-- Debi (LongTimeLurker@shy.com), January 06, 2000.


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