From: Roger Barnes <rogerd <at> PAPALBULL <dot> HI-NET <dot> CO <dot> UK>
Date: 3 dec 1999
Subject: Re: Last match of the millenium?

Presumably in Japan it is some year other than 2000 (and the new year starts
on some other day) - I do remember a particularly crass statement on the
radio that a Hindu festival in India was particularly important as it was
'the last one of the millenium'.

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From: <SalvaAC <at> AOL <dot> COM>
To: <SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL>
Sent: 03 December 1999 12:13
Subject: Re: Last match of the millenium?


> In a message dated 12/3/99 12:31:08 AM Central Standard Time,
> colin <at> COLINA <dot> DEMON <dot> CO <dot> UK writes:
>
> <<
>  So are all the Japanese pros taking next year off as a holiday, then? >>
>
> Colin,
>
> Thanks so much!  I thought I was the only person who knew the real
truth.....
>  At least we know *our* New Millenium parties will be on the right day!
:)
>
> Tony
>