From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 3 18:30: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3AA14D2F for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 18:29:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA32666; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 21:33:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199912040233.VAA32666@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: So, what do we call the 00's? In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991203151522.0097fb90@mail85.pair.com> from "G. Adam Stanislav" at "Dec 3, 1999 03:15:22 pm" To: adam@whizkitech.net (G. Adam Stanislav) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 21:33:58 -0500 (EST) Cc: fullermd@futuresouth.com (Matthew D. Fuller), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org G. Adam Stanislav wrote, > At 12:16 03-12-1999 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > >I swear, if I see just *ONE* more TV commercial, Budweiser can, trinket > >at Wal-Mart, etc, that say a damn thing about the 'Millenium' or 'Welcome > >the 21st century', I'm going to just have a complete breakdown and start > >mowing people down with a MAC10. > > Thank you! I thought I was the only one who doesn't get it when NBC talks > about the "last game of the century" and things like that, as if they did > not expect anything to happen throughout the year 2000. Or, that I was the > only one who knows that Y2K = year 2048. I've heard some scary rumblings lately about a widespread Millenium Bug in computers around the world. Just think, a year after the Y2k bug, we'll have another problem to deal with! *duck* Anyhow, going against all of the traditions on -chat, I have something useful to add to this thread. The question as to what the first decade of the 21st century, 2001-2010, should be called and what the first decade of this century, 1901-1910, was called has been handled by the World's Smartest Human, Cecil Adams. He came to the following conclusion: The 1900's were called... drum roll please... Nothing. Kind of a let down, but Cecil says so. More in the tradition of -chat, I'll point you all to, http://www.straightdope.com To look for Cecil's report, but I'm too lazy to actually find the full URL of the article in question. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message