A millennium lasts for a thousand years
I find it very hard to believe that you "missed" one, as per your above claim.

Pfft.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 15:14, 1 reply)

Timing is everything
It took a real pedant to point out to the other guests at a large party held to usher in the 'new' millennium on 31 December 1999 that, technically speaking, it wouldn't start until 1 January 2001.

Yes reader, that pedant was me.

And just because Douglas Adams is dead, he's still wrong.

www.douglasadams.com/dna/pedants.html
( daikoku has been on a ragga tip since, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 19:46, closed)