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On the date

Sunday, May 27, 2001

From the day

Perspective: The Anxious Local · Sound

The neighborhood is buzzing with the bass from *Lady Marmalade* rattling every passing trunk, but I’m too busy staring at the grocery receipt. It’s sketchy how fast things are climbing, and seeing **$1.03** for a single loaf of bread makes my stomach do backflips. I can hear the kids down the block arguing about their new Bratz dolls over the low hum of the mosquito zappers. Between the rising costs and these headlines about invasive home inspections, I feel like I'm the weakest link just trying to keep my head above water.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Lady Marmalade

Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa and Pink

The must-have

Bratz Dolls

On This Day

  • Members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist separatist group, seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.

    Wikipedia →

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

sketchypeepsnewbie

Text Speak

brblolomgrofltmi

Emo

rawrsqueescene

Reality Tv

you're firedthe tribe has spoken

Catchphrases of 2001

  • You are the weakest link. Goodbye.

Tech Check

iPod, Wikipedia, Windows XP & Xbox.

Cost of Living (2000)

Loaf of Bread

$1.03

Gallon of Gas

$1.51

Average Home

$165,300

New Car

$21,850

Meanwhile

  • The Dot-Com BubbleCollapse of tech stocks and 9/11 attacks.

Time Elapsed

9,140 days ago

(25 years, 15 days)