[OT] "Twenty-ten", please

Doctor Rock

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Jan 1, 2010, 8:43:59 AM1/1/10

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no more of this "two-thousand-x" shit. nine years was quite enough of that,
thanks.

smcdaniel1

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Jan 1, 2010, 12:12:05 PM1/1/10

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"Doctor Rock" <mal...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> no more of this "two-thousand-x" shit. nine years was quite enough of
> that, thanks.

Confirmed.

Insane Ranter

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Jan 2, 2010, 1:35:35 AM1/2/10

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On Jan 1, 12:12 pm, "smcdaniel1" <smcdani...@cox.net> wrote:
> "Doctor Rock" <mala...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message

Nine years of "Twenty-X" shit... or I guess we'll get some
TwoThousandTen dummies

smithdoerr

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Jan 2, 2010, 10:56:56 AM1/2/10

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"Doctor Rock" <mal...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> no more of this "two-thousand-x" shit. nine years was quite enough of
> that, thanks.

But today is a palindrome. 01-02-2010

(assuming the merkin month-day-year format)

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Insane Ranter

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Jan 2, 2010, 12:42:39 PM1/2/10

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On Jan 2, 10:56 am, "smithdoerr" <m...@somewhere.com> wrote:
> "Doctor Rock" <mala...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message

>
> news:z_m%m.28400$jY5...@newsfe22.ams2...
>
> > no more of this "two-thousand-x" shit. nine years was quite enough of
> > that, thanks.
>
> But today is a palindrome. 01-02-2010
>
> (assuming the merkin month-day-year format)

I'm surprised there wasn't some nut job saying that this date was the
end of the world for this reason

smcdaniel1

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Jan 2, 2010, 2:54:30 PM1/2/10

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"Insane Ranter" <log...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I was...

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Phil Bowles

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Jan 3, 2010, 8:09:01 AM1/3/10

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On 1 Jan, 13:43, "Doctor Rock" <mala...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> no more of this "two-thousand-x" shit. nine years was quite enough of that,
> thanks.

Come in, whatever they call the decade it can't possibly be worse than
"the noughties" (I still call it the 2000s).

Phil

Doctor Rock

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Jan 3, 2010, 12:01:27 PM1/3/10

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"Phil Bowles" <pbo...@aol.com> wrote in message
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====

every time i read/hear someone call it "the Aughts," i want to ram a
dictionary down their fucking throats.

Ward B.

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Jan 3, 2010, 2:08:21 PM1/3/10

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"Doctor Rock" <> wrote
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> "Phil Bowles" wrote in message

> Come in, whatever they call the decade it can't possibly be worse than
> "the noughties" (I still call it the 2000s).
>
> ====
>
> every time i read/hear someone call it "the Aughts," i want to ram a
> dictionary down their fucking throats.

Indeed, they "aught" to learn proper English, don't you think?

;-)
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- Ward.

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Nobody could figure out what they saw in each other.
The kids were nothing to look at either." - anon