...paraphrased from National Geographic, Jan '99

"A billion hours ago, human life emerged on Earth.

"A billion minutes saw the rise of Christianity.

"A billion Coca-Colas ago was yeasterday morning..."

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), January 05, 1999

Answers

"What a Maroon!"

-- " ("@"."), January 05, 1999.

Surely you mean "macaroon!", "?

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), January 06, 1999.

Nope. Definitely a "Maroon" courtesy of Bugs Bunny :)

-- Mercy (prepare@now.com), January 06, 1999.

San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley, CA

http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/ street04.htm

5) Y2K, or the year 2000 millennium bug, will be associated with:

a) The end of the world as we know it.

b) The hottest new rock group of the year.

c) One of those oft-discussed issues that never amounts to much.

d) The year's biggest investment opportunity because beaten-down stocks rally when Wall Street realizes there was no threat after all.

e) As much of a mystery a year from now as it is today.

Or...

http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/ STREET06.htm

ALL IN GOOD CHEER: Persistent question from Monday's crystal-ball exercise in this space regarded whether I have any inside information on why Ray Lane will succeed Larry Ellison in 1999 as CEO of Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq, ORCL) and if I really think the Y2K issue is all hot air. While I neither admit nor deny anything, please remember one thing: Journalists do zany things like write multiple-choice prediction columns at the end of the year because there's nothing else going on. It's supposed to be fun and light-hearted -- in keeping with the spirit of the season. And besides, nobody remembers the safe guesses, just the gutsy ones.

Or ...

http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/opinion/unpub/ 052515.htm

Millennium madness ... As for the rest of us, we are going to be fed a mixed diet of dire predictions about the apocalypse and the computer eclipse. We will be hectored by people warning us to prepare by fessing up sins, storing up food or backing up disks.

Or ...

http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/svlife/docs/ atlarge5.htm

What, us worry? We're so confident it's a bit unnerving ...

I get the feeling these days that if you were on an ocean liner that struck an iceberg, you would not even consider singing ``Nearer My God to Thee.'' Rather, strike a few choruses of ``Happy Days Are Here Again.''

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), January 06, 1999.

Diane,

In the catagory of the strange but true...

"Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Meroff & His Orchestra hit #1 on February 8, 1930, just three and half months after the stock market crashed in late October 1929!

(Source: Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954)

Only later did "Happy Days Are Here Again" become Franklin D. Roosevelt's theme song.

-- Kevin (mixesmusic@worldnet.att.net), January 06, 1999.

Kevin. History repeats? *Big Sigh*

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), January 06, 1999.