What is this decade caled ?

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-03-26 12:50am

The 1980s were called the eigthties, the 1990s weere called the 90s. So what should this decade be called ?

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2004-03-26 12:51am

naughties.

AnimeJet · Post by **AnimeJet** » 2004-03-26 12:52am

The 2000's? ._.

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-03-26 12:55am

The Two-Kays!

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-03-26 01:01am

For what I've been able to look up, it could technically be called the Aughts, though that's only a compromise: first decades in a century don't actually have a name.

Some of you are probably thinking "why don't we just call it what people during the 1900's called their decade?"

The problem is: they didn't call their decade anything.

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2004-03-26 01:08am

I think that from 2011 onwards, whenever one refers to this decade, they have to use the terminology and accent of a grizzled gold prospector. "Why, back in aught-four, we only had 1 megabit broadband, consarnit!"

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-03-26 01:38am

Alferd Packer wrote:I think that from 2011 onwards, whenever one refers to this decade, they have to use the terminology and accent of a grizzled gold prospector. "Why, back in aught-four, we only had 1 megabit broadband, consarnit!"

"I remember when ur dad was just a little boi."

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-26 01:44am

I've heard them called naughties as well.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-03-26 01:46am

The decade when SD.Net took over the world.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2004-03-26 02:25am

the world would be a much better place, certainly.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-03-26 02:35am

Enforcer Talen wrote:the world would be a much better place, certainly.

Certainly a much less tense place... all that pent-up sexual prudeness... gone.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-03-26 02:40am

Enforcer Talen wrote:the world would be a much better place, certainly.

How do you figure that? I mean... Yeah. Some of the membership scares me.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2004-03-26 02:49am

According to a half-remembered conversation with my sister years ago, the current decade is the ohzies. Next decade is the onezies, or alternatively the tenzies.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-03-26 03:22am

Alferd Packer wrote:I think that from 2011 onwards, whenever one refers to this decade, they have to use the terminology and accent of a grizzled gold prospector. "Why, back in aught-four, we only had 1 megabit broadband, consarnit!"

And we had to drive in our fossil-fueled cars to school through 15 feet of snow up-hill both ways.....

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-03-26 06:39am

definitely naughties. Never heard anything else.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-03-26 06:52am

I call them the "zero-ees."

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-03-26 06:57am

I don't call it anything because we're still in it, but I assume I'll end up calling it the 2000s.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-03-26 08:39am

I too prefer calling this decades the 2000s.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-03-26 10:35am

the M&Ms

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 2004-03-26 10:52am

Most definitely the naughties.

The next decade will be even more fun to name...

Tenties? Teenties?

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-03-26 10:54am

Rogue 9 wrote:
Enforcer Talen wrote:the world would be a much better place, certainly.
How do you figure that? I mean... Yeah. Some of the membership scares me.

Like who?

Anyway, the aughts sound good. So, it's aught-four now.

Next decade: The teens. At least as far as I'm concerned.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2004-03-26 11:08am

In my office, they're the Two-Thousands. Specific years are the 0-1's, 0-2's, etc.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-03-26 01:41pm

Jon wrote:Most definitely the naughties. The next decade will be even more fun to name...

Tenties? Teenties?

The Teens, just like 1911-1920 are called.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2004-03-26 02:55pm

Years from now I will refer to it as either:

turn of the millennium

millennium

millennium decade

Michael Jackson’s big surprise come back decade

Something like that

Demiurge · Post by **Demiurge** » 2004-03-26 03:05pm

The aughties!