The Millenium Big?
The question that has been passing everybody's lips ever since 1998. All we want to know is: should we celebrate the millenium or not, is it moral to celebrate it? Or should we boycott it? My personal opinion, we should NOT boycott the millenium else we may get caught up in 1999, and that's a thing I don't want to be caught up in. All that B*Witched music and those Boyzone number ones.
It's not the millenium anyway, it's the second millenium isn't it? Tsshhh. Can we not have the argument about the fact that 2001 is the REAL millenium. Please. I heard a few blokes arguing this in a pub ( I have no friends so I just listen in on other people's social life, sad I know but still social ). There is as little need for this argument as there is for re-running Noel's House Party.
We can celebrate the millenium, I think that it will sum up our 2000 years on this rock ever since the birth of our saviour Jesus Christ. Celebrating a date change will be fantastic, we could build a large dome, call things [Insert name here] 2000. And we can REALLY party like it's 1999; just like in that Prince song. Unfortunately we'll probably wake up like it's 1984, which is worrying as 1984 was possibly the most boring and silly years ever allegedley.
Dear oh Dear oh Dear. What have we done in 1000 years. It wasn't so bad in 1990 when we got to the end of a decade, because we can always say: Well we'll do better this decade. Can we honestly say that we can improve on a 2000 years that included;
1. Stan Laurie
2. Hugh Laurie
3. Bill Oddie
4. Laurie McMenemy
5. Scottish Devolution
6. Richard Whitely
7. Angela Landsbury
8. Betty Boo
9. William of Orange
10. Dean Stockwell
And above is only a selection of what has been going on around the globe in the last few thousand years. What is annoying though is the way that Noel Edmonds will probably be remembered as the most famous person of this millenium. Isaac Newton, Christopher Columbus, Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi and even Mr. J. Christ all fade into significance to the bearded ex-DJ.
So all that fighting, all that scrapping and this is where we are, a mere few months, weeks, days, even hours to the date 31 December - depending on when you read this. Deary me, haven't we made a mess of it.
What would Maggie Thatcher say if she were alive today?
"Certainly." Probably....
If I was a DJ, which I am not, and I had a set for New Years Eve 1999, which I have not. Then I think I'd love to spoil the party by playing Blur's "End of a Century." Fantastic song, good song, just not the type of sentiment you want to hear on the Biggest Party Ever! Which it won't be.. I'll make sure of that.
Jan 1st news story:
Work starts on solving Y3K problem