Date:         Thu, 7 Oct 1999 08:26:08 -0400
Reply-To:     Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Subject:      Planning a REAL millenium new year's celebration
Comments: cc: bus <type2@type2.com>

Thanks Larry for setting the record straight on the "millenium" thing...

As a litteralist, it is driving me up the wall, all of the marketing that
is coming out: "Buy a Sofa to close out the Millenium Sale", and "Take a
Cruise with Carnival to close out the Millenium!!!"...that would be a
LOOOOOONG cruise...It is amazing, the number of companies that are too
ignorant to realize the millenium isn't over for another year; even ABC
News has an "End of the Millenium" program promo right now. Duh. Back to
school with 'em.

On the lighter side, what do folks think of planning a HUGE "End of the
Millenium Party" NEXT year for all of the smart folks on ALL of the
Vanagon/Bus lists who know this New Year's isn't the change of millenium?
We could hold it some place central enough, and warm enough that folks from
all over the USA, California, Texas, Canada, and Mexico could make it. I
figure someplace like Oklahoma City is pretty darned central, and somewhat
bearably warm in Dec/Jan (as opposed to Sioux Falls). Since there is a lot
of flat ground there, we could do it kind like Burning Man...instant city,
then Poof, it is gone.

I'm not on the type 2 list, so let me know (p-mail) what folks think
sometime between now, and next August.

G. Matthew Bulley
Director
Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
http://www.bulley-hewlett.com
Cary, NC USA
888.468.4880 tollfree


-----Original Message-----
From:   Larry Hamm [SMTP:ldhamm@XMISSION.COM]
Sent:   Thursday, October 07, 1999 1:11 AM
To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject:        Re: new year's celebrations

Scott Walker wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of any Vanagon (or VW) related New Year's Parties east
of
> the Mississippi?  Just might be the impetus I need to finish the Van.
>
Scott,
If you don't get the van finished for this New Year's celebration, be
sure to get it done for the next one. That one, December 31, 2000, is
the true end of the millennium, contrary to popular belief. So you've
got some time left!
Larry