h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, as no-one else has said it; Its not the real millenium. That is Hogmanay 2000 to Ne'er Day 2001.

Don't you just hate people who point this out

Incidently, I believe I may be spending the festivities face down in a field in Aberdeenshire.

Heh, if you want a real exciting time, then the place to be is in a concrete bunker overlooking a large airport.

But preferably not in the flight path

Aye, better equip that bunker with deflector shields or something.

Just need to get the address of the chappies who built Saddam Hussein's bunkers. Not only can they withstand everything short of a nuclear strike, but I believe it was a British company that built them.
Probably want to get a periscope type thing to watch the airport with.

This is a reason http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/pedants.html

Ah, yes, well, can't go against the great DNA. Thus, and so forth, I hearby declare next Thursday to be the new millenium, for no better reason than it is distinctly unpedant like.

P.S. I didn't say I wouldn't get drunk at Hogmanay, just that it is not the Millenium. Mostly due to the fact that the accepted date of Christ's birth (I think) was about 4 B.C. or something, meaning we have all missed the Millenium already. And let us not even start on the change from Julian to Gregorian (is that right?) calendars.

With regards to being pedantic, I've found an article from the New Zealand Herald on 1 Jan 1901 which heralded the beginning of the new millenium...one that basis we're "officially" celebrating 1 year early.

Yeah but what we're really celebrating is the arrival of all those zeros

Yes, and quite frankly I couldn't give a toss.

Just curious, but does the UK exist anymore? kinda wondering since most of the countries listed are labeled as in the UK.

Eh? The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland does indeed exist as a seat at the UN. Tony Blair is the Prime Minister of said country. Of course, this is a purely legal definition. Any decent Celt knows that Scotland and Wales are seperate, in spirit. I am not even going to mention Northern Ireland, for obvious reasons.
Of course, the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, The Falkland Islands, Pitcairn, The Cayman Islands, Gibraltar (almost an Island), The British Virgin Islands and some other Islands I can't remember are also part of the UK, but they don't get a vote.


Are we confused yet?

Yeah and it's only the English that write their nationality as British

Or guys with a penchant for the colour orange. A lot of them up here in Scotland, surprisingly. Or not, if you know your history.