Well, see, they wrote all this bank software and to save space, they used two digits for the date instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998.
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- So where do you work, Peter?
- Initech.
- And, yeah, what do you do there?
- I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch.
- Yeah.
- I don't know. But I really don't like it and I'm not gonna go.
- Nuh-uh. Not really. I'm just gonna stop going.
- When did you decide all of that?
- Oh, really? About an hour ago....
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