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Sunday, September 11, 1999
Can you believe it? I'm back already.
I just thought I'd take a moment to rejoice with you, my fellow nitpickers over our incredible fortune this week that we actually survived one of the "Impending-Dates-O-Doom" (Otherwise known as IDOD).
I am of course, referring to the fact that we made it through September 9, 1999 without the world coming to an end. You, no doubt, had heard that 9/9/99 was a date that would live in infamy with its rampant meltdown of everything we love and hold dear.
Thankfully, the nuclear waste dump on the dark side of the moon continues to function normally . . . .
To what do I refer, you ask? ;-) Tom Elmore sent me the following email this week. I chuckled.
"Here is something you might want to share with all nitpickers. September 9, 1999 is day a nuclear waste dump on the dark side of the mooon is going to explode and send the moon and the residents of Moon Base Alpha hurling into space, or at least that is what the 1970's British Sci-Fi series Space 1999 claims (Remember it? It starred Martin Landu and has been seen on the Sci Fi Channel)"
So, take heart, my friends. We may yet survive our future! ;-)
As always, I wouldn't want to conclude these musings without paying homage to the wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful moderators of the Nitpickers Guild! (Couldn't keep this going without them!) They are:
Nick Angeloni (nangeloni@nitcentral.com) Action Figures
Andre Blackburn (ablackburn@nitcentral.com) American Gothic
Chris Booton (cbooton@nitcentral.com), Spiderman
Joel Boutiere (jboutiere@nitcentral.com), X-Files
Charles Cabe (ccabe@nitcentral.com), Star Wars
Michael Cheyne (mcheyne@nitcentral.com) Mike's Movies, Twilight Zone, G.I. Joe
Andrew Corcoran (acorcoran@nitcentral.com), Red Dwarf
Joanna Cravit (jcravit@nitcentral.com) , The Kitchen Sink, ER
Joel Croteau (jcroteau@nitcentral.com), Sailor Moon.
Phillip Culley (pculley@nitcentral.com) Blake 7
Robert Donahou (rdonahou@nitcentral.com), Star Trek Novels section
Chris George (cgeorge@nitcentral.com), DS9
Jo-Hanna Goettsche (jgoettsche@nitcentral.com), Futurama
Ben Jackson (bjackson@nitcentral.com), Mystery Science Theater 3000, Dilbert
Lee Jamilkowski (ljamilkowski@nitcentral.com), Sliders
Edward Jefferson (ejefferson@nitcentral.com) Sci-fi Novels
Beth Karras (bkarras@nitcentral.com), Homocide.
Yehuda Katz (ykatz@nitcentral.com), Dark Skies
Roland Khorshidianzadeh (rkhor@nitcentral.com) Dragonball Z
Murray Leeder (mleeder@nitcentral.com), The Trek Animated Series
Mike Konczemski (mkonczewski@nitcentral.com), Doctor Who
Gordon Lawyer (glawyer@nitcentral.com) Fantasy Novels, Allo Allo, Rocky and Bullwinkle
Aaron Nadler (anadler@nitcentral.com), Sliders
Amos Painter (apainter@nitcentral.com), Earth: Final Conflict
Matthew Patterson (mpatterson@nitcentral.com), Seven Days, SeaQuest DSV, Console Video Games
Matt Pesti (mpesti@nitcentral.com), V
Todd Pence (tpence@nitcentral.com) , Space 1999
Declan Quinn (dquinn@nitcentral.com, Stargate SG-1 topic
Jon Raines (jraines@nitcentral.com) Classic Trek; Next Gen
Tim Riggins (triggins@nitcentral.com), Highlander, Early Edition, Robotech
Nicholas Setzer (nsetzer@nitcentral.com), Profiler
Amanda Sinclair (asinclaire@nitcentral.com), Quantum Leap; Buffy, the Vampire Slayer; Johnny Quest, The Real Adventures; Gundam
D. Stuart (ubiqtysync@nitcentral.com) Reboot, Outer Limits
Richie Vest (rvest@nitcentral.com), Voyager; Babylon 5
(If I've somehow missed someone on this list, please, please, let me know!!!)
United We Nitpick!
Phil
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