Terry Mosher

2000 Reasons to Hate the Millennium

A 21st-Century Survival Guide
Herausgeber: Freed, Josh

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

TOP 5 REASONS TO HATE THE MILLENNIUM 5. No one knows how to spell it 4. There will be a Rolling Stones Millennium Tour 3. Your new computer program may be Curtains 2000 2. As a kid you figured out how ancient you'd be in the year 2000. Now you are. 1. There are only 999 years left till Y3K Have you had it with Millennium hype? Would you like to exterminate all talk of the Y2K bug? Here's the antidote! "2000 Reasons to Hate the Millennium" is your guide to surviving the marketing madness surrounding the year you-know-what. "Here is advice on such millennial topics as: " 1. How to give birth to the first baby of the Millennium 2. Where NOT to be Millennium Eve 3. 2000 products to expect and avoid 4. The Worst Awards: worst books, movies, fashions, and media stories of the last 2000 years "2000 Reasons to Hate the Millennium" -- Don't Leave This Millennium Without It!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 216g
• ISBN-13: 9780684867793
• ISBN-10: 0684867796
• Artikelnr.: 21540155

Autorenporträt

Josh Freed is a Montreal Gazette columnist and filmmaker, and the author of five books. He has won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humor and two national newspaper awards, including Best Canadian Columnist of 1998.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Countdown...
CHAPTER 10
WHY 2K? Introduction Things we thought would last 2000 years that didn't
Immortal quotes of the last Millennium that weren't
CHAPTER 9
2K OR NOT 2K? Where not to celebrate the Millennium When not to
celebrate the Millennium How you can avoid the whole thing
CHAPTER 8
THE Y2K-MART How to make a million off the Millennium 2000 products to
expect and avoid
CHAPTER 7
Y NOT U2? Inner messiah Tours The missing messiah How to have the
first Millennium baby
CHAPTER 6
Y BUG ME? The Millennium Bug: An Exterminator's Guide The Y2K Armageddon
Survival Guide
CHAPTER 5
Y1K A brief history of the last 1000 years What about the Y1K bug?
Surprising inventions of the last Millennium What's 1000 years?
CHAPTER 4
THE YUKKIES Awards for 2000 years of bad books, bad songs, bad films, bad
fashions and bad inventions
CHAPTER 3
I'M OK, YOU'RE 2K A guide to sex, culture, pets, space travel and other
millitrends of the next 1000 years
CHAPTER 2
Y2NIGHT! 2000 ways to have a memorable moment on Millennium Eve
Preparing Your Last Supper Millennium Eve TV listings How to be the
first death of the Millennium
CHAPTER 1
Y3K A survival guide to the next 10 centuries What to pack, where to
stay, how to get there Planning for a crowded planet Predictions for
the new Millennium
CHAPTER 0
BOOM!