What are they going to call the next decade?
Created | Updated Mar 19, 2002
What do you think of when you hear the phrase "The Sixties"? Woodstock, Hippies, mind expanding drugs, the Beatles and Tie-dies, right? What about "The Eighties"? Boy George, Duran Duran, Live Aid, Maggie and Ronnie and Chernobyl maybe. The naming of each decade is very much core to our culture, and it is therefore important that each decade be given a name that people can identify with.
However, the first decade of the millennium has, as yet, no agreed name. So let me outline the options that are available to us:-
1) The Tens. (Innumerate version). OK, but not strictly accurate. This should be the name for the second decade of the millenium.
2) The Naughties. (Erotic version). Every time I think of this I think of Barbara Windsor...
3) The Zoos. (Environmental version). Nah. U2 are on the way out...
4) The Aughties. (Labour Party version). I aught not think that this one will be the winner.
5) The Zeros. (Brett Easton Ellis version).
6) The Ohs. (Gullible version).
7) The Moos. (Meat is Murder version).
8) The First Decade of the Third Millenium. (Accountant's version).
9) The Dohs. (Homer Simpson version).
10) The Uh Ohs. (Tellytubby version).
11) The Naughty Aughts. (Conservative Party version).
12) The Bill Gates Decade. (Well he owns everything else...)
13) The Nothings. (Existentialist Version).
14) The Boos. (Big Zeros version)
15) The Zulus. (African version)
16) The Twenty-ohs. (Twenty somethings version)
17) The Umpties. (Nursery rhyme version)
18) The Millies. (Millennium version)
19) The Zoolies. (Good name for a pop band version)
20) Finally, there's the Catastrophe Theory version, which is we aught not bother, because there won't be a next millenium.
Additional submissions gratefully received....
However, the first decade of the millennium has, as yet, no agreed name. So let me outline the options that are available to us:-
1) The Tens. (Innumerate version). OK, but not strictly accurate. This should be the name for the second decade of the millenium.
2) The Naughties. (Erotic version). Every time I think of this I think of Barbara Windsor...
3) The Zoos. (Environmental version). Nah. U2 are on the way out...
4) The Aughties. (Labour Party version). I aught not think that this one will be the winner.
5) The Zeros. (Brett Easton Ellis version).
6) The Ohs. (Gullible version).
7) The Moos. (Meat is Murder version).
8) The First Decade of the Third Millenium. (Accountant's version).
9) The Dohs. (Homer Simpson version).
10) The Uh Ohs. (Tellytubby version).
11) The Naughty Aughts. (Conservative Party version).
12) The Bill Gates Decade. (Well he owns everything else...)
13) The Nothings. (Existentialist Version).
14) The Boos. (Big Zeros version)
15) The Zulus. (African version)
16) The Twenty-ohs. (Twenty somethings version)
17) The Umpties. (Nursery rhyme version)
18) The Millies. (Millennium version)
19) The Zoolies. (Good name for a pop band version)
20) Finally, there's the Catastrophe Theory version, which is we aught not bother, because there won't be a next millenium.
Additional submissions gratefully received....
