When I was a little kid, my mother introduced me to the ambiguities of the English language by telling me I shouldn't be afraid of the Purple People Eater because he only eats purple people. So when I was working on this post, I thought of Sheb Wooley, and now that song is stuck in my head.
Yeah COBOL! Hard to forget Y2K if you worked in IT and had your once in a lifetime New Year's Eve millennium ruined. No Drinking. My company did indeed spends millions, maybe tens of millions fixing that. Sure it was important but everyone knew the end of the world stuff was a joke. Still, the [panic] fear, at a lot of levels was real. I was asked to store a couple of 55 gallon drums of diesel fuel for our generator in my garage. The fastest immediate NO to management I ever gave.