> I'm sitting here munching a pack of M&M's, and I suddenly remembered the time last year when I bought a pack of M&M's from the vending machine at our office, and read the following blurb on the plastic wrapper:
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> "The official candy of the new millennium."
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> Obvious questions arise, such as, how does one go about securing the rights to being the official candy of an entire millennium? To what party does one apply for that privilege, and what gives them the authority to grant it? Etc., etc., etc.
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Ah, c'mon, you must now better by now than to ask such an obvious question. They asked me, as Ruler of the World, for express permission. Unfortunately, my secretary took the call and gave it to them. He was promptly fired and executed.

> Will Mars candy bars be heralded as "the official candy of the solar system"? Or will the company aim even higher, and position Milky Way as "the official candy of the universe"? How will the advertising campaign be made accessible to alien markets in other star systems? Is there a subliminal message ("I grok Milky Way") hidden in the code for SETI@Home?

Not if they go through me. And they must go through me.

Her"I've deleted about a zillion quotes here trying to one that fits my dictatorly stature and I still can't think of one"Grace