Name That Decade

The generally-useless Tim Noah at the amateur leftist webzine Slate has a piece that's almost worth reading. Except a, it's fluff, and b, it's well-covered ground.

What the hell are we supposed to call this decade? Noah's topical hook for re-writing this piece for the six-thousandth time is that we are days away from the decade's midpoint, and yet no one's figured out what to call these years. And I guess he has a point there-- you'd have figured that, by now, we'd have all collectively settled for a shorthand nickname for these years begining with a zero.

The eighties, the nineties, and then the... what?

The "oh's" has been suggested, and the antique "aughts."

Look, if no one else is going to step up to the plate, please, allow me. We are currently living in the nils. It's short and it doesn't roll too badly off the tongue and it even sounds a little bit cool.

We're in the nils, and then we'll be in the teens.

Until someone comes up with something better, I say we just all agree on "the nils" and be done with it already.

posted by Ace at 03:57 AM

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