U.S. - As the end of the year rapidly approaches, the nation's churches are scrambling to upgrade their computers for Y2K compliance.
Churches had reportedly called for replacing their computers with Y2K-compliant versions decades ago, but congregational votes had failed to approve the hefty three-digit expense. Many of the votes were caught up in committees as churches debated the pros and cons of moving from Windows 95 to one of those "newfangled" operating systems like Windows 98 or even Windows XP.
"Why would we upgrade to Y2K compliance when old Bessie here works just fine?" asked church deacon Paul Martyr, lovingly patting the church's tower running Windows 3.1 on a beefy Intel 486 processor. "Personally, I don't feel comfortable moving to Windows 10, since the beast in Revelation