Re: No Y2k Bug

[urbanophile@mindspring.com (Urbanophile)]

The cat walked across hfung@smtp.as.csupomona.edu (Henry Fung)'s
keyboard and wrote:

>In article <84j6pp$pil$2@nntp8.atl.mindspring.net>, urbanophile@mindspring.com (Urbanophile) writes:
>>A was at a local discount chain last night (I won't name it to protect
>>the guilty, but it's owned by Dayton-Hudson)

>nee "Target"

I never said that, but you're right.


>> and I noticed that the
>>prices of bottled water, batteries, flashlights, and radios had gone
>>up about 25-30% since last week.
>>

I expect that a lot of people are there today returning these things.


>At least at the 99 cent store, things are still 99 cents only. Gotta
>love L.A. :-)

Up here, all of our 99 cents stores were bought out by Dollar Tree, so
now everything is $1.00.  

>How is ridership on the transit systems around the world? Any problems with
>crowding after the new year is rung? (Interestingly, I read in Japan that
>unlike the rest of the world, the majority of their population believes
>correctly that the millennium begins on January 1, 2001. So, the celebration is
>not more than usual.)

I hear that there were some problems with bus ticketing machines in
Tasmania. 
--Urbanophile  (Call me "Jim" in real life . . .)

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