[AT] New product panics (was) Detroits

[Mike Sloane]

The biggest one in recent memory was "Y2K" that was going to be pretty 
much "the end of the world as we know it". Much to everyone's amazement 
(disappointment?), nothing at all happened at midnight on 12/31/99.

Of course, when they took the lead out of gasoline, all the old 
car/truck/tractor/boat engines would have their valves burn up the next 
day. That didn't happen either. But people still buy "lead substitute" 
to add to their gas.

Mike

Indiana Robinson wrote:

> 
> 	How many other "mostly groundless" (in the real world) dire warnings 
> can you remember from over the years?
> 

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When the loyal opposition dies,
I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow


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