And to celebrate, my text will appear in festive green!
Technically, this little fella isn’t a Millennium Item, but it’s nevertheless an amusing adjunct to the Year 2000. Pets.com opened for business in 1998, and its sock-puppet mascot debuted in 1999. It became a sensation almost overnight, appearing on “Nightline,” “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee,” and in balloon form during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade of 1999.
Sadly, the good times could not last: Pets.com closed its virtual doors in 2000. Since then, the mascot has moved on; it was last seen in commercials for a loan company called 1-800-BAR-NONE, whose slogan is, “Everybody deserves a second chance!”
My grandma got me this puppet for Christmas 2000. She told me that she saw it in a catalog (“What on Earth?” again, I think), and called in to ask how many were in stock. When she discovered that there were only a few left, she snapped up the one that I have.
March 17, 2000--The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences asks the FBI to help find all 55 of the Oscar statuettes, which had been stolen.
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