And you thought the Y2K problem was big!!!

["Graap, Ken" <keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a little off subject, but then we all need a good laugh now and
again, right?

EXPERTS WARN OF THREAT FROM 100GigaBurg BUG
  
 Experts warned today of a new and deadly threat to our  beleaguered
 civilization: the 100GB Bug.
 
 As most people know, McDonald's restaurant signs show the number of
 hamburgers the giant chain has sold. That number now stands at 99
 billion burgers, or 99 Gigaburgers (GB).  Within months or even weeks,
 that number will roll over to 100GB. McDonald's signs, however, 
 were designed years ago, when the prospect of selling one hundred 
 billion hamburgers seemed unthinkably remote. So the signs have 
 only two decimal places.
 
 This means that, after the sale of the 100 billionth burger,  
 McDonald's signs will read "00 Billion Burgers Sold." This, experts
 predict, will convince the public that, in over thirty years, no
 McDonald's hamburgers have ever in fact been sold, causing a complete
 collapse of consumer confidence in McDonald's products.
 
  
The ensuing catastrophic drop in sales is seen as almost certain to
 force the already-troubled company into  bankruptcy. This, in turn,
 will push the teetering American  economy over the brink, which,
finally,
 will complete the total devastation of the global economy, ending
 civilization as we know it, and forcing us all to live on beetles.
  
 "The people who know -- the sign-makers -- are really scared of
 100GB," one expert said. "I don't know about you, but I'm digging up a
 copy of THE FIELD GUIDE TO NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS and heading for
 the hills." 


Kenneth

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