> 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.

I think it's similar to the process by which David Letterman became the official talk show of the new milennium. Or perhaps similar to the process by which Zsa-Zsa Gabor became a celebrity.

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