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Subject:Re: What to Call the Next Decade From:Patrick O'Connell <titanide -at- MICRO -dot- ORG> Date:Mon, 29 Jan 1996 10:20:51 -0500
I guarantee that whether we want them to or not, the media will call it
"the millienium decade." It's not a half-bad name for us poor, average,
non-hair-spray-soaked folks, either.
Very likely something like "the O's" will come into common usage --
whatever it is, it'll be short. Whatever is shortest and catchiest will
become the accepted norm. That much we can predict, I think.
I am thankful to the Fates that I will live as the millenium changes --
wouldn't it be something if every crackpot prediction made by the crazies
and fringeoids about the year 2000 came true -- ALL of 'em? Wee-HOOOOO!
Talk about yer brave new world!
