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!!{{Film}} -- Live-Action
->"So, what you're telling me is that the music is about to stop, and we're going to be left holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of capitalism."
-->-- '''John Tuld''', ''Film/MarginCall''

!!LiveActionTV
->''"Well, [[Theatre/AllsWellThatEndsWell all’s well that ends well.]] Though that’s easy for [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] to say; he’ll be around for another millennium. But what of our own millennium? will it all end well? No one of course can know, but that of course doesn’t stop anyone from guessing. And the nature of these predictions always revolve around the usual suspects: salvation and/or self–satisfaction. With that in mind, I humbly add my own prophecy of what the dawn of the new millennium shall bring forth: one thousand more years of the same, old crap."''
-->--'''Jose Chung''', ''Series/Millennium1996''

->"21st century history is not one of my strong points. Too depressing."
-->-- '''Dr. Bashir''', ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' ("Past Tense: Part I")

->"The 21st century is when everything changes, and you've gotta be ready."
-->-- '''Jack Harkness''', ''{{Series/Torchwood}}''



->''Frankly, Mr Shankly, I'm a sickening wreck\\
I've got the 21st century breathing down my neck''
-->-- "Frankly, Mr. Shankly", '''Music/TheSmiths'''



->''Is this not the rat age\\
The demented Photostat age\\
The time of no room?\\
We've broken the genetic code\\
And [[IWantMyJetpack left it bleeding by the road]]\\
Where murderers loom''
-->-- "The Rat Age", '''T. Bone Burnett'''

!!StandUpComedy
->"I read junk-mail, I eat junk food, I buy junk bonds, I watch trash sports. I'm gender-specific, capital-intensive, user-friendly, and lactose-intolerant. I like rough sex; I like tough love; I use the f-word in my email, and the software on my hard drive is hard''[[TheInternetIsForPorn core]]''; ''no'' soft porn! I bought a microwave at a mini-mall; I bought a minivan at a megastore. I eat fast food in the slow lane. I'm toll-free, bite size, ready to wear, and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped, factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven, scientifically-formulated medical miracle. I've been pre-washed, pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed, and I have an unlimited broadband capacity."
-->--'''Creator/GeorgeCarlin''', "Modern Man"

->"We're a heavily medicated society. All the drugs we take: Prozac, Effexor, Valium. I thought for the last ten years, we've been on some weird fucking drug -- the whole country -- called 'Fukitol.' What a weird fucking drug. [[WhatDidIDoLastNight And we're just coming out of it and we're kind of waking up.]] Fuckin' A! It's weird: It's like you're going, 'last thing I remember was the economy was working and here was a budget surplus."
-->-- '''Creator/RobinWilliams''', ''Weapons of Self-Destruction''

->"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is [[Music/{{Eminem}} a white guy]], the best golfer is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods a black guy]], the tallest guy in the NBA is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Mingming Chinese]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_America%27s_Cup the Swiss hold the America's Cup]], [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war]], and the three most powerful men in America are named [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]], [[UsefulNotes/DickCheney Dick]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell Colon]]."
-->--'''Creator/ChrisRock'''

!!WebOriginal
->[=00s=]: ''The numerals spell it all. Zero economic opportunity after college, zero sense in the general public, cultural zeroes, zero understanding and tolerance, near zero entertainment, politicians with zero intelligence and zero scruples, hysteria, panic, hatred and witch hunt frenzy stirred up by political cretins and a sensationalistic zero IQ media (esp. TV news). It's the Decade of Duh.''
-->--'''''Website/UrbanDictionary'''''

->VideoGame/SmashTV'' takes place in the grim, cold future of 1999, only a few short years after the conquest of Earth by the [[VideoGame/RevolutionX New Order Nation]].''
-->-- '''''[[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/smashtv/smashtv.htm Hardcore Gaming 101]]'''''

->''[[{{Website/Facebook}} Zuckerberg]] is a billionaire of the modern age. Call me old-fashioned, but I like men who are able to buy and sell control of my fate to look the part. There's something too humiliating about being inferior to someone who needs to be told not to wear socks with sandals.''
-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-that-werent-always-this-terrible_p2/ "4 Things That Weren't Always This Terrible"]]

->The ''UsefulNotes/ColdWar is dead and gone. Indeed, the entire apparatus of {{the future}} is long since gone, and has in fact quietly disappeared into the rear view mirror.''
-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/03/pop-between-realities-home-in-time-for.html Dr. El Sandifer]]'''

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->''Is this not the rat age\\
The demented Photostat age\\
The time of no room?\\
We've broken the genetic code\\
And [[IWantMyJetpack left it bleeding by the road]]\\
Where murderers loom''
-->-- "The Rat Age", '''T. Bone Burnett'''

!!StandUpComedy
->"I read junk-mail, I eat junk food, I buy junk bonds, I watch trash sports. I'm gender-specific, capital-intensive, user-friendly, and lactose-intolerant. I like rough sex; I like tough love; I use the f-word in my email, and the software on my hard drive is hard''[[TheInternetIsForPorn core]]''; ''no'' soft porn! I bought a microwave at a mini-mall; I bought a minivan at a megastore. I eat fast food in the slow lane. I'm toll-free, bite size, ready to wear, and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped, factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven, scientifically-formulated medical miracle. I've been pre-washed, pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed, and I have an unlimited broadband capacity."
-->--'''Creator/GeorgeCarlin''', "Modern Man"

->"We're a heavily medicated society. All the drugs we take: Prozac, Effexor, Valium. I thought for the last ten years, we've been on some weird fucking drug -- the whole country -- called 'Fukitol.' What a weird fucking drug. [[WhatDidIDoLastNight And we're just coming out of it and we're kind of waking up.]] Fuckin' A! It's weird: It's like you're going, 'last thing I remember was the economy was working and here was a budget surplus."
-->-- '''Creator/RobinWilliams''', ''Weapons of Self-Destruction''

->"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is [[Music/{{Eminem}} a white guy]], the best golfer is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods a black guy]], the tallest guy in the NBA is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Mingming Chinese]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_America%27s_Cup the Swiss hold the America's Cup]], [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war]], and the three most powerful men in America are named [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]], [[UsefulNotes/DickCheney Dick]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell Colon]]."
-->--'''Creator/ChrisRock'''

!!WebOriginal
->[=00s=]: ''The numerals spell it all. Zero economic opportunity after college, zero sense in the general public, cultural zeroes, zero understanding and tolerance, near zero entertainment, politicians with zero intelligence and zero scruples, hysteria, panic, hatred and witch hunt frenzy stirred up by political cretins and a sensationalistic zero IQ media (esp. TV news). It's the Decade of Duh.''
-->--'''''Website/UrbanDictionary'''''

->VideoGame/SmashTV'' takes place in the grim, cold future of 1999, only a few short years after the conquest of Earth by the [[VideoGame/RevolutionX New Order Nation]].''
-->-- '''''[[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/smashtv/smashtv.htm Hardcore Gaming 101]]'''''

->''[[{{Website/Facebook}} Zuckerberg]] is a billionaire of the modern age. Call me old-fashioned, but I like men who are able to buy and sell control of my fate to look the part. There's something too humiliating about being inferior to someone who needs to be told not to wear socks with sandals.''
-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-that-werent-always-this-terrible_p2/ "4 Things That Weren't Always This Terrible"]]

->The ''UsefulNotes/ColdWar is dead and gone. Indeed, the entire apparatus of {{the future}} is long since gone, and has in fact quietly disappeared into the rear view mirror.''
-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/03/pop-between-realities-home-in-time-for.html Dr. El Sandifer]]'''



->''The price of petroleum has skyrocketed and the world economy in confusion. The 21st century was expected to be one of chaos.''
-->-- '''''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''''', dossier on the [[VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake Zanzibar Land]] disturbance

->"After Y2K, the end of the world had become a cliché. But who was I to talk? ...Everything was subjective. There were only personal apocalypses. Nothing is a cliché when it's happening to you."
-->-- '''VideoGame/MaxPayne'''




!!RealLife
->''...twentieth century and Second Christian Millennium are saying goodbye. Personally, I thought they'd never go [[TheGreatDepression without]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII taking us]] [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar with them]].''
-->-- '''Creator/GoreVidal''', ''Vanity Fair'', 1999

->''I came of age in {{the Sixties}}, when there were chances, when it was all there waiting. Now they seep out of school -- to what? To nothing, to fuck-all. The young (you can see it in their faces), the stegosaurus-rugged no-hopers, the parrot-crested blankies -- they’ve come up with an appropriate response to this, which is: nothing. Which is nothing, which is fuck-all. The dole-queue starts at the exit to the playground.''
-->-- '''Martin Amis''', ''Money''
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-->--'''Jose Chung''', ''{{Series/Millennium}}''

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-->--'''Jose Chung''', ''{{Series/Millennium}}''
''Series/Millennium1996''
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->"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is [[Music/{{Eminem}} a white guy]], the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, and Colon."

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->"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is [[Music/{{Eminem}} a white guy]], the best golfer is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods a black guy, guy]], the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Mingming Chinese]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_America%27s_Cup the Swiss hold the America's Cup, Cup]], [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, war]], and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]], [[UsefulNotes/DickCheney Dick]], and Colon.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell Colon]]."
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-->-- "Millennium Anthem (2000 New Year's Eve)", ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw''

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-->-- "Millennium Anthem (2000 New Year's Eve)", ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw''
'''''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'''''
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->''On New Year's Eve, we don our robes\\
Your dad fills jugs of water as we wait upon the lord\\
In the chapel, we'll be safe from snow\\
We spent all of the money we had on billboards\\
As midnight passes by, I wonder how we missed your coming\\
Still here for Y2K\\
You let me down, now\\
You let me down, down, down\\
Down, down, down, down, down, down''
-->-- "Millennium Anthem (2000 New Year's Eve)", ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw''
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[[ClimateChange The water's gettin' warm, so you might as well swim\\

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[[ClimateChange [[GlobalWarming The water's gettin' warm, so you might as well swim\\
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->[=00s=]: ''The numerals spell it all. Zero economic opportunity after college, zero sense in the general public, cultural zeroes, zero understanding and tolerance, near zero entertainment]], politicians with zero intelligence and zero scruples, hysteria, panic, hatred and witch hunt frenzy stirred up by political cretins and a sensationalistic zero IQ media](esp. TV news). It's the Decade of Duh.''

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->[=00s=]: ''The numerals spell it all. Zero economic opportunity after college, zero sense in the general public, cultural zeroes, zero understanding and tolerance, near zero entertainment]], entertainment, politicians with zero intelligence and zero scruples, hysteria, panic, hatred and witch hunt frenzy stirred up by political cretins and a sensationalistic zero IQ media](esp.media (esp. TV news). It's the Decade of Duh.''
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[[GlobalWarming The water's gettin' warm, so you might as well swim\\

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[[GlobalWarming [[ClimateChange The water's gettin' warm, so you might as well swim\\
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My world's on fire, how 'bout yours?\\

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My world's on fire, how 'bout yours?\\yours?]]\\
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->''[{{Website/Facebook}} Zuckerberg]] is a billionaire of the modern age. Call me old-fashioned, but I like men who are able to buy and sell control of my fate to look the part. There's something too humiliating about being inferior to someone who needs to be told not to wear socks with sandals.''

to:

->''[{{Website/Facebook}} ->''[[{{Website/Facebook}} Zuckerberg]] is a billionaire of the modern age. Call me old-fashioned, but I like men who are able to buy and sell control of my fate to look the part. There's something too humiliating about being inferior to someone who needs to be told not to wear socks with sandals.''
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->"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is [[Music/{{Eminem}} a white guy]], the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, and Colon."
-->--'''Creator/ChrisRock'''
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!!{{Film}} -- Live-Action]]
->"So, what you're telling me is that the music is about to stop, and we're going to be left holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of capitalism.

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!!{{Film}} -- Live-Action]]
Live-Action
->"So, what you're telling me is that the music is about to stop, and we're going to be left holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of capitalism."
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->[''[{{Website/Facebook}} Zuckerberg]] is a billionaire of the modern age. Call me old-fashioned, but I like men who are able to buy and sell control of my fate to look the part. There's something too humiliating about being inferior to someone who needs to be told not to wear socks with sandals.''

to:

->[''[{{Website/Facebook}} ->''[{{Website/Facebook}} Zuckerberg]] is a billionaire of the modern age. Call me old-fashioned, but I like men who are able to buy and sell control of my fate to look the part. There's something too humiliating about being inferior to someone who needs to be told not to wear socks with sandals.''



->''UsefulNotes/TheColdWar is dead and gone. Indeed, the entire apparatus of {{the future}} is long since gone, and has in fact quietly disappeared into the rear view mirror.

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->''UsefulNotes/TheColdWar ->The ''UsefulNotes/ColdWar is dead and gone. Indeed, the entire apparatus of {{the future}} is long since gone, and has in fact quietly disappeared into the rear view mirror.''

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[[folder:Music]]

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[[folder:Music]]
!!{{Film}} -- Live-Action]]
->"So, what you're telling me is that the music is about to stop, and we're going to be left holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of capitalism.
-->-- '''John Tuld''', ''Film/MarginCall''

!!LiveActionTV
->''"Well, [[Theatre/AllsWellThatEndsWell all’s well that ends well.]] Though that’s easy for [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] to say; he’ll be around for another millennium. But what of our own millennium? will it all end well? No one of course can know, but that of course doesn’t stop anyone from guessing. And the nature of these predictions always revolve around the usual suspects: salvation and/or self–satisfaction. With that in mind, I humbly add my own prophecy of what the dawn of the new millennium shall bring forth: one thousand more years of the same, old crap."''
-->--'''Jose Chung''', ''{{Series/Millennium}}''

->"21st century history is not one of my strong points. Too depressing."
-->-- '''Dr. Bashir''', ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' ("Past Tense: Part I")

->"The 21st century is when everything changes, and you've gotta be ready."
-->-- '''Jack Harkness''', ''{{Series/Torchwood}}''

!!{{Music}}



->''Frankly, Mr Shankly, I'm a sickening wreck\\
I've got the 21st century breathing down my neck''
-->-- "Frankly, Mr. Shankly", '''Music/TheSmiths'''



->''It's a cool place, and they say it gets colder,''\\
''You're bundled up now, wait 'til you get older,''\\
''But the meteor men beg to differ,''\\
''Judging by the holes in the satellite picture,''\\
''[[InnocenceLost The ice we skate is gettin' pretty thin,]]''\\
''[[GlobalWarming The water's gettin' warm, so you might as well swim,]]''\\
''[[NothingIsTheSameAnymore My world's on fire, how 'bout yours]]?''\\
''That's the way I like it, and I'll never get bored! ...''\\
''Somebody once asked, could I spare some change for gas?''\\
''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I need to get myself away from this place,]]''\\
''I said "Yeah! What a concept! I could use a little fuel myself,''\\
''[[UsefulNotes/BarackObama And we could all use a little change!]]"''

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->''It's a cool place, and they say it gets colder,''\\
''You're bundled up now, wait 'til you get older,''\\
''But the meteor men beg to differ,''\\
''Judging by the holes in the satellite picture,''\\
''[[InnocenceLost The
->''The ice we skate is gettin' pretty thin,]]''\\
''[[GlobalWarming
thin\\
[[GlobalWarming
The water's gettin' warm, so you might as well swim,]]''\\
''[[NothingIsTheSameAnymore
swim\\
My world's on fire, how 'bout yours]]?''\\
''That's
yours?\\
[[NightmareFetishist That's
the way I like it, it,]] and I'll never get bored! ...''\\
''Somebody once asked, could I spare some change for gas?''\\
''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I need to get myself away from this place,]]''\\
''I said "Yeah! What a concept! I could use a little fuel myself,''\\
''[[UsefulNotes/BarackObama And we could all use a little change!]]"''
bored''



[[/folder]]

[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
->You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is [[Music/{{Eminem}} a white guy]], the best golfer is [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods a black guy]], the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Ming tallest guy in the NBA]] is Chinese, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alinghi the Swiss]] hold the America's Cup, [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war]], and the three most powerful men in America are named "[[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]]", "[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney Dick]]", and "[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell Colon]]".
-->--'''Creator/ChrisRock'''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]
->"A decade without any flavor or style whatsoever..."\\
"2000-2010 was a shitty decade. I like [[TheNewTens this decade]] better! I have a smartphone now!"
-->-- A Weazel News report about a "Noughties Bar" opening in Liberty City, '''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'''

to:

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
->You know

->''Is this not the rat age\\
The demented Photostat age\\
The time of no room?\\
We've broken the genetic code\\
And [[IWantMyJetpack left it bleeding by the road]]\\
Where murderers loom''
-->-- "The Rat Age", '''T. Bone Burnett'''

!!StandUpComedy
->"I read junk-mail, I eat junk food, I buy junk bonds, I watch trash sports. I'm gender-specific, capital-intensive, user-friendly, and lactose-intolerant. I like rough sex; I like tough love; I use the f-word in my email, and the software on my hard drive is hard''[[TheInternetIsForPorn core]]''; ''no'' soft porn! I bought a microwave at a mini-mall; I bought a minivan at a megastore. I eat fast food in the slow lane. I'm toll-free, bite size, ready to wear, and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped, factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven, scientifically-formulated medical miracle. I've been pre-washed, pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed, and I have an unlimited broadband capacity."
-->--'''Creator/GeorgeCarlin''', "Modern Man"

->"We're a heavily medicated society. All the drugs we take: Prozac, Effexor, Valium. I thought for the last ten years, we've been on some weird fucking drug -- the whole country -- called 'Fukitol.' What a weird fucking drug. [[WhatDidIDoLastNight And we're just coming out of it and we're kind of waking up.]] Fuckin' A! It's weird: It's like you're going, 'last thing I remember was the economy was working and here was a budget surplus."
-->-- '''Creator/RobinWilliams''', ''Weapons of Self-Destruction''

!!WebOriginal
->[=00s=]: ''The numerals spell it all. Zero economic opportunity after college, zero sense in the general public, cultural zeroes, zero understanding and tolerance, near zero entertainment]], politicians with zero intelligence and zero scruples, hysteria, panic, hatred and witch hunt frenzy stirred up by political cretins and a sensationalistic zero IQ media](esp. TV news). It's the Decade of Duh.''
-->--'''''Website/UrbanDictionary'''''

->VideoGame/SmashTV'' takes place in the grim, cold future of 1999, only a few short years after the conquest of Earth by the [[VideoGame/RevolutionX New Order Nation]].''
-->-- '''''[[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/smashtv/smashtv.htm Hardcore Gaming 101]]'''''

->[''[{{Website/Facebook}} Zuckerberg]] is a billionaire of the modern age. Call me old-fashioned, but I like men who are able to buy and sell control of my fate to look the part. There's something too humiliating about being inferior to someone who needs to be told not to wear socks with sandals.''
-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-that-werent-always-this-terrible_p2/ "4 Things That Weren't Always This Terrible"]]

->''UsefulNotes/TheColdWar is dead and gone. Indeed, the entire apparatus of {{the future}} is long since gone, and has in fact quietly disappeared into the rear view mirror.
-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/03/pop-between-realities-home-in-time-for.html Dr. El Sandifer]]'''

!!{{Video Game}}s
->''The price of petroleum has skyrocketed and
the world is going crazy when the best rapper is [[Music/{{Eminem}} a white guy]], the best golfer is [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods a black guy]], the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Ming tallest guy economy in the NBA]] is Chinese, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alinghi the Swiss]] hold the America's Cup, [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war]], and the three most powerful men in America are named "[[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]]", "[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney Dick]]", and "[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell Colon]]".
-->--'''Creator/ChrisRock'''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]
->"A decade without any flavor or style whatsoever..."\\
"2000-2010
confusion. The 21st century was a shitty decade. I like [[TheNewTens this decade]] better! I have a smartphone now!"
expected to be one of chaos.''
-->-- A Weazel News report about a "Noughties Bar" opening in Liberty City, '''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'''
'''''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''''', dossier on the [[VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake Zanzibar Land]] disturbance



[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]
->'''''Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’'''''
-->-- ''Website/TheOnion'' [[https://politics.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperi-1819565882 headline, January 17, 2001]] ([[FunnyAneurysmMoment which turned out to be frighteningly prescient]])

->'''''A Shattered Nation Longs to Care About Stupid Bullshit Again'''''
-->-- ''Website/TheOnion'' [[https://entertainment.theonion.com/a-shattered-nation-longs-to-care-about-stupid-bullshit-1819566188 headline, October 3, 2001]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Real Life]]
->The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]], Dick and Colon.
-->--'''Creator/KurtVonnegut'''
[[/folder]]

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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]
->'''''Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’'''''

!!RealLife
->''...twentieth century and Second Christian Millennium are saying goodbye. Personally, I thought they'd never go [[TheGreatDepression without]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII taking us]] [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar with them]].''
-->-- ''Website/TheOnion'' [[https://politics.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperi-1819565882 headline, January 17, 2001]] ([[FunnyAneurysmMoment '''Creator/GoreVidal''', ''Vanity Fair'', 1999

->''I came of age in {{the Sixties}}, when there were chances, when it was all there waiting. Now they seep out of school -- to what? To nothing, to fuck-all. The young (you can see it in their faces), the stegosaurus-rugged no-hopers, the parrot-crested blankies -- they’ve come up with an appropriate response to this,
which turned out is: nothing. Which is nothing, which is fuck-all. The dole-queue starts at the exit to be frighteningly prescient]])

->'''''A Shattered Nation Longs to Care About Stupid Bullshit Again'''''
the playground.''
-->-- ''Website/TheOnion'' [[https://entertainment.theonion.com/a-shattered-nation-longs-to-care-about-stupid-bullshit-1819566188 headline, October 3, 2001]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Real Life]]
->The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]], Dick and Colon.
-->--'''Creator/KurtVonnegut'''
[[/folder]]
'''Martin Amis''', ''Money''

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