Sykes employees are under threat of termination for revealing to a customer that they are not really on the phone with Compaq. They will move you to a supervisor quick to get you off their phone. What's at stake here is an essential American freedom, that of self-determination. We are tired of appearing stupid to ourselves, but the peculiar thing is, has always been, that we can't solve it alone. I say this not because I am shocked, but because I am a sociological observer, and want to record that the summer of 1999 was the season when Hollywood's last standards of taste fell .
Nothing is too gross for the new comedies.
Grossness is the point. While newspapers and broadcast television continue to enforce certain standards of language and decorum, kids are going to movies that would make longshoremen blush. I wonder if he knows. You probably already have a credit card with an expiration date of 00. In Sweden, drivers could not use credit cards at 600 gas stations because of a Y2K-like bug.