[Smokin' Joe]

First, the “O” zone was going to collapse from CFCs and I’d die of cancer. Then Global Warming and I’d burn up or drown! Now, a secret flood!

I must be a tad older than you are. We were all going to die in a nuclear war (Duck and Cover!), then we were going to die from Nuclear Winter, then it was the coming Ice Age, then the Ozone Hole...

All crisis, all the time.

It's like watching a serial on TV, just waiting to see what next season will bring.

[Malone LaVeigh]

It's like watching a serial on TV, just waiting to see what next season will bring.

You forgot all the imminent pandemics that were supposed to wipe us out ... swine flu, bird flu, zombies ...

[irishtenor]

Oh, don’t forget the ENERGY CRISIS where we will run out of OIL in 1978. Can’t wait for that to happen... oh, you mean... its 2012? and we still have oil?

[cpa4you]

Nope, I did my share of “duck and cover.” Dad was Army at the time. Who could forget the Cuban missile crisis?! I just forgot, I wasn’t scarred, just scared!

[Chaguito]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. —H. L. Mencken