News: Humor

As the clocks ticked over at midnight on December 31, 1999, the portion of our brains not transfixed by alcohol and fireworks paused anxiously for a millisecond, still half-braced for planes to plummet from the sky, the electricity grid to flicker and fail, and the rioting to begin. Ah, remember the millennium bug?

Since Thursday was the day of the Great American Smokeout and smoking bans have been making headlines in the news for the last year, I was taken back to memories of my childhood. All my memories aren't smoky, but a few of them are.