[Holly-L] Y zero K

[Bob & Keely Bush]

: >  Message from: Rome
: >  October 3, 1 B.C.
: >
: >  Dear Cassius,
: >
: >  Are you still working on the Y zero K problem?
: >  This change from BC to AD is giving us a lot of
: >  headaches and we haven't much time left.
: >
: >  I don't know how people will cope with working
: >  the wrong way around.  Having been working happily
: >  downwards forever, now we have to start thinking
: >  upwards.
: >
: >  You would think that someone would have thought of
: >  it earlier and not left it to us to sort out at the
: >  last minute.
: >
: >  I spoke to Caesar the other evening.  He was livid
: >  that Julius hadn't done something about it when he
: >  was sorting out the calendar.  He said he could see
: >  why Brutus turned nasty. We called in the consulting
: >  astrologers, but they simply said that continuing
: >  downwards using minus BC won't work.  As usual, the
: >  consultants charged a fortune for doing nothing useful.
: >
: >  As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an
: >  hourglass flowing upwards.
: >
: >  We have heard that there are 3 wise men in the east
: >  working on the problem, but unfortunately they won't
: >  arrive till it's all over.  Some say the world will
: >  cease to exist at the moment of transition.
: >
: >  Anyway, we are continuing to work on this blasted
: >  Y zero K problem and I will send you a parchment if
: >  anything further develops.  I must end this message
: >  short because I have suffered from a terrible case of
: >  enscriber's syndrome ever since you sent us the new
: >  high-speed rewriteable tablets.
: >
: >  Best Regards,
: >  Plutonius