After successfully renegotiating a contract to bring his salary in line with the rest of the team, the New York Yankee’s water boy, performs a hostile takeover on Bill Gates and Microsoft.
The WWF’s fledgling XFL Football league becomes America’s most watched broadcast when they substitute the tradition of the “spike dance” after touchdowns with gang rapes of the opposing team’s cheerleaders.
The Canadian Government (a.k.a. HRDC) tightens up its spending habits thus plunging the world into the next Great Depression.
Jean Cretien marries Queen Elizabeth II and they vow to rule “happily ever after” (upon hearing the news Prince Charles, Paul Martin and the Canadian Public commit mass suicide).
Following the success of all the comeback tours of 2000, and in anticipation that tomorrow’s music will be no better that today’s, the major record companies take the next logical marketing step after their “Unplugged” recordings by releasing a rash of “Exhumed” recordings.
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Dr. Bette R. Feedthing II for her development of genetically re-engineered vegetables that are not green.