Taking Us Into 2000. . .

s~Z keithmar at jetlink.net
Thu Dec 31 21:26:30 CST 1998


(spoken): I remember, when I was a little boy, I thought, "Gosh. In about 40
years all the numbers of the year will change at once. It'll be the year
2000. Cool. I wonder if I'll be alive when it happens? I said to my dad,
"Dad. I'll be 46 when the year turns 2000. Do you think I'll make it? I'll
never forget the look on my father's face as he gathered me up in his arms
and said, "Son. I'm sure you'll make it. And so will I." Since then I've had
the thought often, but more recently the question became, "Will the *world*
make it through the celebration!?" Now, I've spoken with my father on the
phone. He was right. And the only fireworks have been the celebrating kind.
And I'm looking around, and I'm saying, "Is that all there is to the Y2K
problem?"

(sung) Is that all there is?
Is that all there is?
If that's all there is, my friends.
Then let's keep dancing.
Let's break out the booze
And have a ball.
If that's all........there is.







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