the zeroes?
:smack: God I love how ya can’t say anything without pissing off somebody somewhere in the world.
I’d say ‘fageddaboutit’, but I’m sure somebody of Mafioso descent would take exception. :rolleyes:
The 00’s (or ooze as I call 'em)
What ethnicity is Unintentionally Blank being centric about?
American is not an ethnicity, in case jjimm’s assumption goes there.
Besides, this is not a political thread. It’s a light-hearted inquiry about what to call a decade.
‘The two thousands’.
Hee hee, “Naughties”. That’s my personal favorite.
I remember back around the turn of the century someone did a commentary on NPR about this subject, and one thing they said was that, whatever we decided to call it, in order for it to be taken seriously, it would have to pass the following test: imagine Dan Rather saying it on the evening news. I just about lost it thinking about him saying “naughties”. 
It seems to me that people refer to this decade as “the new millenium”. As in, “The new millenium really sucks”. Or, “I haven’t gotten laid in the new millenium”. When 2011 gets here, the millenium won’t be new any more, so we can move on to something else.
Speaking of which, what do we call '10 -'19? The teens?
The best suggestion I’ve heard for the current decade — I think it was on this board, but I don’t remember who said it — was the “twenniyos.”
Give it up!!!
You guys are driving me crazy.
:eek:
mmm, 1900’s were referred to as the nineteen hundreds.
1910-1919: nineteen tens
twenties
thirties and so on and so on.
maybe we can call 2000- 2009 the twenty hundreds?
If we don’t resolve this soon, we’re gonna end up callin’ it “last decade”. 
** The Oh’s. ** People here use two-oh-one, two-oh-two, etc. to designate the past years. The second “oh” seems to have disappeared.
In Britain the term used by the media is the naughtie’s. It has been this way for ever. Watch and learn.
I hope that’s one British term us Yanks don’t adopt. Please.
Sorry, Theom, but it sounds way too silly. 
Ya want British? How 'bout “The Pips”?
It means you feel shitty, but you don’t know why.
We’ll just call it the “pat” decade.
My official prediction is that this decade will never have a name. It will be written as 2000-2009, or as the unpronouncable '00s. This will vex the living daylights out of radio DJs in 20 years, and they’ll complain about it, but nothing will ever get adopted.
Mangeorge Don’t forget Benny Hill, why else would it be the naughties?
How 'bout … Revelations
ohties?
I puzzled over this for quite a while when we were about to hit 2000. My best answer then was “the oh-oh’s”. So far, it seems to fit.