h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I think everyone will just call it the twenty hundreds.

How about we call it fnord?

I think that it will just become a turn of speech that everyone will avoid due to fear of making a faux pas or sounding like an idiot. I can't remember the last time I said 'nineties' or 'eighties' so I think it's pronunciation will be firmly in the realm of DJ's and fashion writers. They can have it.

But *I* want it.

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Well, we'll share it, I guess. How can you go through a decade without saying "The Nineties"????? Where have you been living???

Eh, don't worry about it. He/she just said it, so clearly she/he was speaking hyperbolically, whether (oh, heck with it) it realized it or not...

I would like to nominate The Tookies (derivation 2K -- 2,000)

Sounds like a character from the dreaded "Space Precinct", but not a bad suggestion. Better than all of mine (EVERYONES suggestions have been better than mine, though! )

I heard the other day that they're going to call it the Otters,
don't know if they were just pulling eveyone's legs or not
but where would that leave us in 10 years... with Tigers?
Tarantulas maybe, or even Teletubbies!

Go with the 'Otters' I say. Can't get enough nonsense nowadays. Get the namegivers to call it something for no reason whatsoever and be done with it. The only problem is that you can't tell anyone that there isn't a reason. "No, what is it REALLY", they'll plead. "Oooohh, must be a secret reason. Or is a bit risque? nudge nudge wink wink.
"Nope, there is NO reason for it at all".
"Bastard".

(He, if it helps save four keystrokes)

Well that's about as good an idea as naming hurricanes!

I say that's a whole new forum! Someone write a guide entry, and we'll write this film on h2g2.

So this is what a conversation would include:

"c'mon, it's the oh's!"

"c'mon, get with it man, it's the naughties!"

"get over it, it's the plusies already!"

"loose those clothes and get into the Oaties!"

"Damn the nineties, this is the M's!"

"Damn the nineties, this is the K's!"

"Damn the nineties, this is the Colin's!" (or Frank's, Mary's, Geoff's....)

"Hey, what do you expect, it's the null's man."

It's the nulls man, and don't you forget it. Of course the past few decades kinda were to...but that's another subject irrelevant to the current discussion. I could start my own catch phrases though...."null out man"......"don't worry bout it, she's null"... I'd go on, but someone would track me down and tranquilize me. Where are the Pirhana Brothers when I need them? They'd only nail me head to the floor.

I like the reference to Y2K. Someone suggested Y2K+1, +2 & call the decade the plussies. How about just Y2K1, Y2K2 (sound familiar, h2g2?) & we could call the decade the Kays?!

Actually does it really matter what we call it, I mean we're gonna
have to face the fact that we were all born in the LAST millenium!
Bob, that makes me feel old just thinking about it... let's call 'em
the babies!

I mean, hey man, get with the babies!

"Young man, I was using computers a millenium before you were born..."
- We're all gonna sound like my Granddad!

Why not take it a step further?
For example:

"The Texaco First Decade"
"The American Express 2060-2069 Spend-a-thon"
"The Intel 2090-2099 Y3K Panic Days"

I'm sure the big companies would love to get a peice of that.

Your Granddad was using computers a millenium before you were born?