The facts presented in the Year 2000 Directory of Whatever* are completely fictional, as are all people, events, dates, nations, geographical locations, and planets referenced herein. Here and there in the listing, readers may encounter discussions which remind them of real subjects. Such instances should be regarded as purely coincidental and should not be interpreted as a comment on, or criticism of, the real subject to which the reader's imagination has created a fanciful connection. Okay?

*You know. There's, like, stuff we're supposed to maybe know something about, and maybe we kind of do, but we can't think of it right now, so it's better to go somewhere else. This has that kind of stuff in it, like, you know, Wurld War II? And Car Engines? And Buddism? And Photosynthesis? This isn't all that stuff, but it's the stuff we ran into doing the assignment that Dr. Pangloss made us put in or no passing grade. You know. (Don't tell Dr. Pangloss, when we get some time to work on this part, we'll probably just lift a lot of stuff out of the Encyclopedia Ameria. Who's gonna know? The only way Dr. Pangloss would know is if he wrote the Encyclopedia Ameria. And he didn't, right? Right? Cool.)