Re: #1 On my list of pet peeves for 1999!

From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jan 05 1999 - 08:59:34 MST


At 09:02 PM 1/4/99 -0800, Spike wrote:

>an old problem: the century naming convention. the 17th century is the
>16 hundreds. thats made me crazy since forever

I'm planning to renumber the years, after my coup, from the agricultural
revolution (call it 8000 BC), to get rid of all those poor people living
backwards: e.g. Plato/Platon, b. 428, d. 348.

Damien Broderick



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