I just went in to town to draw all the money out of my bank account (all cash in small bills, of course), topped off all my fuel tanks and filled my empty gas cans; have already emptied and refilled all my emergency water containers, the guns are loaded, the window blinds are pulled down, the generator is already running, and the concertina & trip fares are out ---- and now you tell us it's next week?! (I guess I better call work back and tell them I won't be sick for a week after all)
This is the biggest boondoggle since that great "non event" known as Y2K.
Yes, it's really a plot by me to get you guys to go crazy and stock up on MREs. Then when (fingers crossed) next week's outage is a non-event, you'll start to flood eBay with your cheap cases of MREs and I can buy them all for pennies on the dollar.
I knew it! You and Steve are in cahootz together on this one......
Just in case though --- I'm keeping the bayonet attached to my AR tonight (never know when my neighbor's damned cat is going to get out of line anyway). Heeeerrrrrre kitty-kitty...
that has to be the most entertaining outage in the history of the internet that al gore invented.
"Do not attack the First Marine Division. Leave the yellowlegs alone. Strike the American Army."
Orders given to Communist troops in the Korean War;
shortly afterward, the Marines were ordered
to not wear their khaki leggings.
(I guess I better call work back and tell them I won't be sick for a week after all) 
