The Millenium Bug II

Letter from a Blonde Y2K Engineer:

I hope I haven't misunderstood your instructions. Because to be honest, none of this "Y to K" problem makes any sense to me.

At any rate I have finished converting the company calendars so that the year 2000 is ready to go with the following new months:

Januark, Februark, Mak, Julk.

Thanks to Michael Schiff, who forwarded me the
above animated gif file from a Fox News, folder.

From: Cecille B. Spina
Date: Feb 9, 1999

The following are two other variations forwarded by Bill Woodward and Cindy Gramm.

I just received this status report from the Y-to-K project team:

Our staff has completed the 18 months of work on time and on budget. We have gone through every line of code in every program in every system. We have analyzed all databases, all data files, including backups and historic archives, and modified all data to reflect the change.

We are proud to report that we have completed the "Y-to-K" date change mission, and have now implemented all changes to all programs and all data to reflect your new standards:

Januark, Februark, March, April, Mak, June, Julk, August, September, October, November, December

As well as: Sundak, Mondak, Tuesdak, Wednesdak, Thursdak, Fridak, Saturdak

I trust that this is satisfactory, because to be honest, none of this 'Y to K' problem has made any sense to me. But I understand it is a global problem, and our team is glad to help in any way possible.

And what does the year 2000 have to do with it?

Speaking of which, what do you think we ought to do next year when the two digit year rolls over from 99 to 00?

We'll await your direction.

Dear Boss:

I hope that I haven't misunderstood your instructions. Because to be honest, none of this Y to K problem makes any sense to me. At any rate I have finished the conversion of all of the months on all the company calendars for next year (year 2000). The calendars have returned from the printer and are ready to be distributed with the following new months:

     Januark
     Februark
     Mak
     Julk

I've also changed the following days:

     Mondak
     Tuesdak
     Wednesdak
     Thursdak
     Fridak
     Saturdak
     Sundak

In general, all references to "Day" were changed to "Dak" (e.g. "President's Dak"). And all references to "Birthday" were changed to "Birthdak" (e.g. "Washington's Birthdak").

I had a hard time deciding about "New Year's Day", "Martin Luther King, Jr. Day", "Yom Kippur", and "Hanukkah", but I finally changed them to "New Kear's Dak", "Martin Luther Ying, Jr. Dak", "Kom Yippur", and "Hanuyyah"