Okay, I give up! Just what is the name of this decade?

[RedCloud]

We had our 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's.

What is this decade to be called then? The "nothing" decade?

And don't give me that "today" stuff. That is so Bushlike crazy...

[chickenscratching]

1. 21st Century?

:shrug:

[Hugin]

2. "The Head Firmly Up Our Ass" decade?

Would be my guess.

Or maybe something about a rear view mirror.

[johnnie]

3. Oh Oh

I would say.

[tjwmason]

4. I've heard it called the naughties

It follows logically after all.

[indy_azcat]

5. Millenium? Naughts?

:shrug:

[Hugin]

6. Oh, This is the "Aughts".

You know... Like "Back in aught four... We done lost
the election again."

[ooglymoogly]

7. the redux decade

[tk2kewl]

8. with bushCo in charge we should call it the "zeroes"

[WhollyHeretic]

9. I've been trying to figure that out

though if it makes you feel any better Bush will probably destroy the world before the decade is over so it shouldn't matter to much.

[Sydnie]

10. oughts

Much like "they ought not pee on my leg and tell me it's raining", or if you prefer, Jethro and his double ought spy comparison.

This is generation "Oh no they didn't" by the way. We've had "baby boomers", "generation x", "generation y", ... now we have "generation "Oh no they didn't".

[RedCloud]

17. So we skipped generation Z?

Where is the consistency?

[Sydnie]

18. rule one

#1 Bush is in charge.

#2 Something just doesn't sound right, see rule 1.

[kick-ass-bob]

11. The naughts.

like the haves and the have-naughts.
:crazy:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

12. "The End"

[NewJeffCT]

13. The Return of the Robber Barons decade?

Ken Lay, the guy from Tyco, the Kozlowski guy, $25 billion in net profit for ExxonMobil, etc.

[Webster Green]

14. The dueces...

or maybe the doozies.

[Bucky]

15. The "Nothings"

[Moochy]

16. the 00's 'Aughts' or 'Oughts' if you are feeling archaic

The aughts. Neat word aught, it comes from naught, by way of Metanalysis, oed: 'a reinterpretation of the division between words or syntactic units'

'naught' meaning nothing. the phrase is reinterpreted by listeners who heard the phrase 'a naught' to be 'an aught'. Thus the word lost it's initial n.

Same for 'adder', which used to be 'nadder'.
Words can get the n from 'an' as well, 'nickname', which used to be 'ekename'. 'an ekename' became 'a nickname'.

[Redstone]

19. The "Oh-ohs."

Redstone

[progmom]

20. i think of them as the aughts

:shrug:

[TripAndFall]

21. Ted

<a href="http://hookedonphoniks.blogspot.com/">Damned If I Know</a>

[caty]

22. 1900-1909 was always refered to

as the "19 hundreds". So, 2000-2009 should be the "20 hundreds".:shrug: