Useless musing #42: The name for this decade?

[floyde]

My siblings were born on the seventies, I was born on the eighties and we used to listen to Nirvana in the nineties... So what's the name for this decade? The zeroties?

 

[bartelby]

noughties

 

[Abstract]

The Naughties.



Anyone need a band name?

 

[epochblue]

The Naughties.

Anyone need a band name?

Damn, I was just about to make that joke too...and, yes, that's a fantastic band name.

 

[floyde]

noughties

The Naughties.



Anyone need a band name?

Makes sense. Is that official though?

 

[calculus]

Makes sense. Is that official though?

What would make it official other than common usage? I don't think there is a committee that decides these things 😉

 

[bartelby]

What would make it official other than common usage? I don't think there is a committee that decides these things 😉

How about a rubber stamp?

 

[calculus]

The Naughties.



Anyone need a band name?

Blimey, that was quick!


More importantly what should we call the next decade, since this one is about over?

 

[bartelby]

More importantly what should we call the next decade, since this one is about over?

The Teens?

 

[floyde]

What would make it official other than common usage? I don't think there is a committee that decides these things 😉

For me it's official once it's used on MTV's Top 100 videos of the X-ies 😛

 

[Melrose]

I think we should call the years 2010 through 2012 The Tweens, while we're at it.

Funny I never thought of 'naming' the first ten years of the millennium.. How about The SingleDigities? okay that was bad... 😀 I'm overtired.

 

[Abstract]

Makes sense. Is that official though?

If it isn't yet, then.....The Naughties™

Blimey, that was quick!

Ok, no trademark, then. 🙁

 

[mcarnes]

"The decade after the 90's but before 2010"

 

[kavika411]

For consideration:

The Lohanians.

The Gwaries.

Back when the robots attacked.

The iPods.

The Ballmer years.

 

[Melrose]

"The decade after the 90's but before 2010"

I like it. It's got a ring to it. Rolls off the tongue easily. Let's go with this one.

 

[localoid]

When you get old you'll call this decade "the good old days".

 

[EricNau]

The "Twenty Hundreds."

 

[wonga1127]

I call it the 2000's. Nothing else really sounds right. Nothing will until 2020.

 

[r.j.s]

I've heard it called the Zeros before ...

 

[brad.c]

• The Ohs
• The Oughts
• the "Have nots"
• The Ws
• The MMs (Roman style)

Starting in 2011, I'm nominating "The Onesies".
We can call it Onesie-one.