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Re: The strangest thing just happened...
Posted By: gremlinn, on host 24.25.220.173
Date: Saturday, December 8, 2001, at 17:20:51
In Reply To: Re: The strangest thing just happened... posted by Eric Sleator on Friday, December 7, 2001, at 14:33:23:

> > OK. The eighties, the nineties, and, uh, the
> > zeroes.
>
> I wonder what we'll call this decade later on. Will my grandchildren be asking me what life was like in the zeroes, or will they be asking me what it was like growing up in the O's? The 2000's? The nothings? They'll probably come up with some crazy thing I would never have even thought of. Those show-offs. These kids today, I tell you.
>
> -Eric "Uh, I mean 'these kids tomorrow', now that I think of it" Sleator
> Fri 7 Dec A.D. 2001

I'd go for one of the following:
1. The Post-Nineties
2. The Pre-Teens (well, maybe not)
3. The O's. (This fits in well with previous centuries. For example, a lot of people would pronounce 1908 as nineteen-o-eight.)

And since we've finished nearly two years of this decade, shouldn't there have been an official decision on it already?

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