The Nothings
I call it The Future.
Future=Flying Cars. I see no flying cars. This can’t be the future.
You hearltess bastard! Why do you want to kill the Pope?
The Ummms.
I’ve been trying to get “twenty-oh…” to catch on. As in “twenty-oh-three.” But people seem to be having none of it.
But I do have an actual theory. I think the first decade of a century doesn’t really get a name, because, well, it is more interesting to think of “the now” as a new century (or a new millenium, in this particular instance) than as merely a new decade. But maybe that’s just me…Timmy
They’re called “airplanes”.
<Conan O’Brien> “In the year two thousand…” </cob>
Gawd, you Minnessotans are more fucked up than I thought. 
“Gauge” is an outdated-but-still-used measurement of shotgun bore diameter: Gauge equals the number of round lead balls of bore diameter equals a pound. Twelve balls of about .745" diameter, as I recall, equals about a pound, so that’s 12-gauge.
Rifles, on the other hand, are measured by bore diameter directly- a thirty-caliber is, oddly enough, .300". Though there’s some variants because some makers measure from the land diameter or the groove diameter, and still others are just completely full of shit (IE, the “.44 Magnum” actually uses a .429" bullet.)
Getting back to the OP, the rifle mentioned in your post is the Thirty-Ought-Six, usually written as .30-'06 Gov’t.
Which means, Rifle, .30 caliber, Model of 1906 (the date the US Army adopted it.) It actually fires a .308" projectile.
Of course, if you really want to confuse things and delve deeper into the archaic gunnery crap, look up “dram equivalents” or the original meaning of calibre, which was barrel length in bores (meaning the big 16" battleship rifles are fifty calibre- the tubes are fifty times the bore, or almost 67 feet long.)
I now return you to your regularly scheduled pedanty.
Turns out I was talking out of my ass about guns. I detest the things, but I had heard the term. I was just using it as an example of the usage of the word “ought” to indicate a zero. That’s all. But thanks for the lesson on firearms. Seriously.
According to the radio stations, it’s “today.”
As in “The best of the 80s, 90s and today!”
Wonder why I don’t listen to the radio anymore.
Nil’s
Zip’s
Nix’s
Goose Egg’s
Zilch’s
Void’s
The 00s—pronounced “ooze.”
Or, just make sure nothing remotely important happens between 2000 and 2009, so that we never have to refer to this decade again.
The UK media has really gone with “the noughties”. I like it.
How about “the decade when Yellowstone erupted and killed everbody?”
I’m a glass-half-empty kinda guy.