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Geek Ab number 234 for Monday January 4th 2010. Oh, Greetings folks and welcome to the first

Geek Cap of 2010 of the of the

What do we call this decade is it the are you in the twines I don't I don't know if it's technically a decade now see we talked about this okay. So here's the deal

Yes, technically the millennium ended at the end of the year 2000, right?

So the beginning of 2001 was the end of the millennium and that's technically true.

However, if we look at Social Convention, the

70s did not end in 1981. They ended in 1980. The 80s did not end in 1991, they ended in 1990. So social convention

dictates that we are now in a new decade.

All right, so we're definitely at some point in the future which is awesome.

Yes. All sorts of things will happen. Now now what how do you feel I said 2010 now some people have said that 2010 is perhaps a more proper way to say it but it takes

longer so you should just say 2010.

Look for for most of our lives you and I John said 19 and then the final two digits in 1992.

We never said 1,992, right?

So I'm going to go with 20 and just roll forward with that.

All right, and speaking of rolling forward, enough of this silliness and let's

Oh, there is one more bit of silliness. And I. sill on the decade before us we have to have something to call it we had the 90s prior to it we're

in these this this decade of tweens or teens but I'm pretty sure the previous decade

was the Naudies. Don't you think it was the naughties, right?

Because we had the aught one and the aught two and the aught three

all the way through the aught nine, so that makes it the naughties.

Oh, naught as in, oh, as in a zero. Yes. Not as naught T. Well, you know, you can. I don't know, I'm still trying to figure out the

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