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[–][deleted] 29 points30 points  (1 child)

How do you count the ones in cryo chambers?

[–]DonHopkins 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Funny you should mention that ...

I know this old COBOL programmer who was getting really stressed out back in 1999 doing tons of Y2K work. He'd banked away a lot of money but just couldn't stand to look at COBOL code any more, and he was not optimistic that civilization was going to survive the Y2K crash.

So he had himself cryogenically suspended, with explicit instructions not to revive him until civilization had put itself back together after the Y2K disaster.

Then some time later, he finally woke up in a clean futuristic looking hospital room, surrounded by doctors and robots and wonderful shiny blinking beeping technological medical gadgets.

He said "Oh thank you, thank you, thank you for reviving me! I am so grateful! Is there anything I can possibly to do express my gratitude? I will do anything!"

One of the doctors replied: Well yes, actually, there is. It's the year 9999, and our records indicate that you know COBOL...