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

I'm in JJJJJ's poem... I LOVE it... merry Christmas to meeeee...

Yes, you are. Doesn't it make you fell special?

Granted, it's a rather corny and ill-rhymed poem, but all the same...

Merry Christmas to yooouuuu too. And since it's really a little late for that, Merry New Year instead.

Yes! Yes, by Bob, it does!

Merry New Year to YOOOUUUU as well! YAYAYAYAY!

I'd say 'Merry New Millennium' but I'd be eaten alive by pedants, and I really want to survive till armageddon.

As it's important to be alive when the end comes. Otherwise how would you know it comes at all?

I have to agree with the pedants on this. Though the thing is, who really cares? It's not as if the whole date system was not invented by us anyway. What's so special about this new years over any other? Aside from the fact that some guy picked two thousand years ago to start the timetable at? And it's not as if that was even the year of Jesus's birth, if you want to get all technical. But I won't I see I'm getting a little carried away with this.

Ignore that I said anything.

That's the thing. Yeah, the pedants are right in lots of ways, and wrong in lots of others, but they suck because it does not matter.

Here's the thing to celebrate:
There is never going to be another year beginning with 1. Ever, ever, ever.

Here's the thing the pedants want to celebrate:
It's not 2000. It's 2001. It may or may not be 2000 years after the birth of this guy we read about.

Damn it. Who cares? Grrrr.

Exactly.