An acquaintance, having seen a great many inquiries about whether his company's software is Year 2000 compliant, is considering using this as his new standard response:
We are quite confident that all of our systems are Year 2000 Compliant. However, we have over a two year backlog of Year 2000 Compliance forms to fill out, so according to our scheduling database, you should hear back from us in June, 1900.
