[Coco] Y2K fixes ever developed or posted?

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 19 December 2003 23:03, Roger Taylor wrote:
>At 09:03 PM 12/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>In another one that was shown on one of the Nashville news shows, a
>> person put a propane tank in their laundry room so that they would
>> be able to cook after Y2K.  The family is alive because they got
>> out of the house when they heard funny hissing sounds.
>>
>>The explosion totally collapsed 1/2 of a four bedroom brick house
>> in what appeared to be an upper middle class neighborhood.  About
>> a 3000 SF house.  It was interesting that there was no soot or
>> burn marks anywhere.  The house collapsed inward so all the debris
>> was inside.
>
>Talk about having fun on Y2K day!!  Oh man, the stunt we pull on the
>mother-in-law....  true story, and funny.
>
>It's the last day of Decemer, 1999, and my technically-uninclined
>old-school mother-in-law was in a panic.  Our phone was ringing off
> the hook.  I did the typical thing and told my wife she was crazy
> (after we got off the phone, mind you).  She had her bathtub filled
> with water, the candles and flashlights were ready, and just all
> sorts of crazy things she blew money on to be prepared for the
> second coming.  I was amused just by knowing she was expecting the
> world to end just because some clocks didn't know how to keep time.
>
>Anyway... my wife's younger sister, the crazy one, the daredevil of
> the family, just happened to call us making fun of her mother and
> the way she was going nuts over this own TV/media-controlled
> hysteria.  So, I convinced my sister-in-law to drive out to her
> mother's house in the country (maybe 3 miles out), and play along
> with her, acting just as scared, helping her get things ready, or
> whatever they needed to do.  So she did.
>
>This was a true 'gig' and it needed to work.  The mother-in-law
> decided to call my wife right before midnight (on her cordless
> phone, ofcourse) and they were carrying on something terrible about
> what could happen, etc. and then suddenly, they lost contact on the
> phone exactly at midnight!  She called back 2 minutes later on her
> land-line phone, and I could hear her from across the room, yelling
> out loud, "Oh my God, my lights went out!!, bla bla wha wha wha."
> ... then a pause, followed by a series of laughs that resembled a
> jackass sounding off in the morning (don't ask).  WAHHHH WAHHHH
> WAHHHH..  Both of them were laughing, so it was obvious that she
> found out.
>
>The sister-in-law had snuck to the fuse box and flipped the master
> breaker exactly at midnight, giving the mother-in-law a heart
> attack "slash" jackass episode.
>
>No gig to this day has ever worked so flawlessly and given me a high
> for about 2 weeks into the new K.  :)

Priceless!

And they call me a rabble-rouser!  Anything I ever did would have to 
take second place to that.   I think I would have been scared she 
would have a heart attack or something and called it off.

-- 
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