On Jan 07, 2011 07:44pm, ROGER NELSON wrote to FRED BURGESS:   
      
    RN> On Fri Jan-07-2011 14:42, Fred Burgess (1:226/0) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    RN>> So we will get a message from you next year on December 22 just to be   
    RN>> sure we will all be just as safe from the end of the Mayan calendar as   
    RN>> we were from the Y2K and Mars hoax?  (-:   
      
    FB>> Mars hoax?  I don't remember that one, unless you are talking about   
    FB>> Orsen Wells.   
      
    RN> Orson Welles? --- NOT!  Don't you get email every once in awhile about   
    RN> Mars being very close?  Here is a snippet I posted in the BAMA echo:   
      
    RN> ===CUT===   
    RN> The Mars Hoax got its start in 2003 when Earth and Mars really did have   
    RN> a close encounter. On Aug. 27th of that year, Mars was only 56 million   
    RN> km away, a 60,000-year record for martian close approaches to Earth.   
    RN> Someone sent an email alerting friends to the event. The message   
    RN> contained some misunderstandings and omissions-but what email doesn't?   
    RN> A piece of advanced technology called the "forward button" did the rest.   
    RN> ===CUT===   
      
    RN> The above has appeared regularly for years, claiming that Mars would be   
    RN> brighter than the Moon.   
      
   You know, I never heard that one.  I guess I wasn't friendly enough back in 03   
   :)  I'll start to worry when it's 56 million miles (don't do that metric stuff   
   :) )   
      
      
      
    FB>> The Y2K one was funny as heck,  Considering I had checked my   
    FB>> computer out in 1988 to see if it would take the year 2000 and up.   
      
    RN> There were programs I used regularly, but displayed the date/time   
    RN> function in a funny and strange way.  Other than that, they still   
    RN> worked.   
      
    FB>> Not knowing that the hackers back then were doing their job very   
    FB>> well and had us protected. The polecats in Washington and Billy   
    FB>> Gates just wanted people to buy new computers and get away from   
    FB>> Win95 and DOS based systems.   
      
    RN> (-:   
      
    FB>> It's like all of these new "flu's" that we get every year.  I   
    FB>> don't get the flu shot and I don't get sick, take the shot, and I   
    FB>> am sick for over a month.  What gives there?   
      
    RN> I don't know.  I have the same reaction.  What I've been doing to keep   
    RN> it away is wash my hands a lot and that seems to be working.   
      
   Sad thing is, I have been doing that too, and now I'm sick.  Must have been   
   around somebody who was sick and I caught it.  :(   
      
      
    FB>>> I wonder if they will let me slide the next year so I don't have to   
    FB>>> spend out the extra $$ since the world is going to end anyway?  ;)   
      
    RN>> Dream on.  Bureaucracies don't operate that way.  You'd be endangering   
    RN>> their jobs and their ability to prevent you from harming yourself (I   
    RN>> read that somewhere).   
      
    FB>>  Heh!  Probably true about that.  It's their job to harm us :(   
      
    RN> Don't you remember what Ronald Reagan said?  "The most terrifying words   
    RN> in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to   
    RN> help."   
      
   Loved it when Mulder said it (X-Files)  :)  But no, I don't remember him   
   saying that ... WOW!  Where the heck was I back then?  Oh, I was in the Navy   
   :) didn't have time to listen much to anything but the officers :(   
      
   Fred   
      
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