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ilaiI lay awake in bed in the middle of the night and wondered what will become of the goofy glasses people wear for New Year's. You know, the ones where the frame is in the shape of the year in numerals (2007, say), and the two middle zeroes surround your eyes. What happens when the year 2011 hits?
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Date: 2006-08-31 01:58 pm (UTC)hmm, I was going to say "what happened before 2000?" But then I realized that everything from 1978 all the way up until 2010 will have two circles somewhere in the date. So I guess the question is "What did people do for goofy new years glasses in 1977?"
That reminds me - did anybody actually come up with a name for the decade? We're already over halfway through it, and I still don't know what to call it. Eightys, Nineties, ____?
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Date: 2006-08-31 02:07 pm (UTC)At some point I heard people referring to 2000s as the Aughts. But I don't think it has entirely caught on. We could be snooty and call it the fin de siècle though that doesn't really refer to the decade. Wait another twenty years and maybe there'll be a sitcom called "That '00s Show", and we'll finally have figured it out.
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Date: 2006-08-31 02:09 pm (UTC)Fin de siècle
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