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This date in Slice history (1999)

A cartoon in the year-end issue of The New Yorker says it all.

An expressionless woman seated in a living room with her husband asks, “What do you think sitting around being bored out of your mind will be like in the new millennium?”

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "The Slice." Read all stories from this blog