Thirty-*First* Century Fox!!!

No! It's not *Thirtieth* Century Fox! This is the year 3000! That makes it the thirty-*first* century!

Mike

It's still the 30th century, technically.

Until the year 3001... or so the Germans would have us believe...

whaaaaa haa ha haa i almost wet my pants

is 20th century fox going to change their name in 2 years

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Well, I guess we're going to find out soon enough, eh? =D

What about the "Century 21" Realty company?

Fester wrote:

I guess they're covered for another hundred years!

BTW, my late maternal grandfather used to work for them.

Mike

Actually the year 3000 would still be the 30th century just as the year 2000 will still be the 20th century. Technically the 21st century starts in 2001. There was no year 0.

Says who?

On Mon, 03 May 1999 10:19:30 GMT, "Fester" wrote:

Say any basic source of facts, like your basic encyclopedia.

The same as "the Pacific Ocean is wetter than Death Valley" .

John Lorentz wrote in message ...

or, "Chevy Chase's talk show was not very popular."

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On Mon, 3 May 1999 14:10:36 -0500, "GRiM" wrote:

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As opposed to "Chevy Chase's talk show wasn't any good", which would be an opinion (albeit one which matches mine)

or, "Stalin was a pretty mean guy."

Heather

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Don't be bad mouthing Stalin now! Who's next, Hitler?

Fester wrote:

Kinda sound's like a weird Python skit. Maybe at a deli or something. With John Cleese as a butcher. Cleese:Right, who's next? Hitler? Castro: No I am next. I have number 3. Hittler: Ja! I am havink number 4. Und Hussen is after me. (Etc...)

Mike Zaite wrote in message news:[email]...

no, that's Mr. HILTER...and this is Mr. Heinrich Bimmler, and Mr. Ron Vibbentrop...

"T. Groan" wrote:

Not _von_ Ribbentrop?

NEIN! No, completely other, different chap.

CountV

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Ya woul, mein dicky old chum

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You know, actually, "Stalin was a pretty mean guy" is an opinion. A *fact* would be "Many people believe Stalin to be a pretty mean guy."

Unless you meant that to be "Stalin was a pretty, mean guy" and I'm not even touchin that one.

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*blink, blink* I don't blame you one bit!

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There was no year 1, either. Nor was there a year 2, a year 3, a year 4, and so on...all those years were added retroactively when the modern calendar was instituted.

So here's what I propose. There WAS a year 0. It occurred simultaneously with the year 1 BC. (Hey, if all those other years can be added retroactively, what's the harm in adding one more?) That way, all the calendar snobs can celebrate the year 2000 like the rest of we hoi polloi.

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Thank you, Stephen Jay Gould!

Dale G. Abersold wrote in message news:[email]...

They weren't added retroactively. These simply became the new designations for these years with the new calendar. Since the new calendar didn't have a year zero, the stuff that happened in the year before 1 AD occurred in 1 BC.

No. We'll just celebrate the turn of the millenium when it actually occurs, on Jan 1, 2001.

You say tomato, I say to-mah-to.

The year 0 AD (as I envision it) would occur simultaneously with the year 1 BC.

Sounds as thrilling as a wet paper bag.

Dale G. Abersold wrote in message news:[email]...

Talk about decidedly silly calendar making. A year with 2 different numerical designations? OK.

"[email] (Dale G. Abersold)" revealed: << Sounds as thrilling as a wet paper bag.>>

"I hate wet paper bags." - Marvin the Paranoid Android

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"David St. Hubbins" wrote:

no, they are not going to change the name to 21st century fox.

Wouldn't that be like having a 19th century FOX during the thirties?

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grosse wrote in message news:CH3W2.3853$[email]...

well, in the late '30s, Fox made so many period films such as "In Old Chicago" (about the 1871 fire) and "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell" that one wag suggested that the studio shold change its name to 19th Century Fox.

Anyway, 20th Century Pictures (founded 1933, merged with Fox two years later) was, I believe, named for the 20th Century Limited, the famed NY-to-LA train...and not after the century itself.

T. Groan wrote:

<somewhat on-topic> Written on New Year's Day, 1801:

   Precisely 12 o'clock last night,
   The 18th century took its flight,
   Full many a calculating head
   Has racked its brains; its ink has shed
   To prove by metaphysics fine
   A hundred means but ninety-nine.
   While at their wisdom others wondered,
   But took one more to make a hundred.
   Strange at the 18th century's close
   While light in beams effulgent glows,
   When bright illumination's ray
   Has chased the darkness far away,
   Heads filled with mathematics lore
   Dispute if two and two make four.
   Go on, ye scientific sages,
   Collect your light a few more ages,
   Perhaps as swells the vast amount
   A century hence you'll learn to count."

- Theodore Dwight </somewhat on-topic>

I hear you're going back on tour in the twenty-first century! Yoh!

Mike

David St. Hubbins wrote in message news:7g8nrg$2ks$[email]...

Probably not, although have seen several 20th Century Fox pictures recently which also have the name Fox 2000 Pictures, so who knows.