So it's 1999 and there's this COBOL programmer who's worried about the Millennium Bug. Not only is he expected to fix it, but if he doesn't fix it, he gets the blame for all the COBOL that goes wrong. So he decides to cryogenically freeze himself for ten years - by which time there will hopefully be no COBOL at all!
Eventually he gets woken up. "This is the year 2009?" he asks. "No," say the bald, toga-wearing super-advanced super-human super-scientists who woke him. "There was a programming fault in your cryogenic chamber and it never unfroze you."
"So what year is it?"
"Well, it's actually the year 9999. You've been asleep for eight thousand years."
"But why did you wake me up now?"
"Well, we're worried about the Decamillennium Bug, and it says on your resume that you know COBOL?"
Verum audaces non gerunt indusia alba. - Ipsi dixit MCMLXXII
