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.