The Oughts (2000-09)

[buckeyebri]

The decade isn't over yet.....still got one more year to go folks...

That being said glad as hell that 2009 is over...

 

[Buckeye513]

The decade isn't over yet.....still got one more year to go folks...

What?

 

[buckeyebri]

What?

If I am not mistaken, the calendar started with year 1 which would mean that you would have to go through year 10 to have a full decade, and so on and so forth.

 

[sandgk]

If I am not mistaken, the calendar started with year 1 which would mean that you would have to go through year 10 to have a full decade, and so on and so forth.

That is a strict interpretation. As in strictly correct.

But this is one of those situations in which common usage trumps strict usage again and again. The common definition of a prior decade - the 90's, the 80's and the like always refers to years 90 through 99 and 80 through 89.

Thus the past immediate decade ought to be the Aughts.

 

[PlanetFrnd]

I'm pretty sure you start counting on day one of the decade, which is to say, year one is the completion of the first 365 days, not when you start counting. Just like we are in the midst of the 21st century for which December 31st 2099 is the end.

2010s - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[buckeyebri]

That is a strict interpretation. As in strictly correct.

But this is one of those situations in which common usage trumps strict usage again and again. The common definition of a prior decade - the 90's, the 80's and the like always refers to years 90 through 99 and 80 through 89.

Thus the past immediate decade ought to be the Aughts.

In the spirit of the thread I will go with it.....

• Left my job in Michigan
• Sold a house in Michigan
• Took a job in Indiana
• Moved family to Indiana
• Bought a house in Indiana
• Got laid off in Indiana after working for 20 some odd years(fucking bastages)
• Found a job in NC
• Sold house in Indiana
• Moved family to NC
• Bought a house in NC
• Watched my daughter play high school golf with three years as a Varsity letter, 2 State Championship attempts, and one year as #1 player
• Watched her graduate from High School
• Took her to College
• Watched Buckeyes perfect season from start to finish
• Took some great vacations ....Hilton Head a few times
• Went to Alaska and the Aluetian Islands
• Got drunk with good friends more than a few times

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

[quote='BusNative;162419;7]- lost my right leg for almost a year[/quote]

It must've smelled pretty bad when you found it...

 

[PlanetFrnd]

It must've smelled pretty bad when you found it...

It did, actually - and was covered in dead skin.

 

[buckiprof]

[quote='BusNative;163345;6]I'm pretty sure you start counting on day one of the decade, which is to say, year one is the completion of the first 365 days, not when you start counting. Just like we are in the midst of the 21st century for which December 31st 2099 is the end.

2010s - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/quote]

Was there a year zero?

 

[DEBuckeye]

- Went to AZ to watch the Buckeyes win the National Championship.

- Got married and divorced.

- Had a son. Best thing to happen in the last ten years.

- Got my MBA.

- Got screwed out of a job. I'm still not permanantly employed.

- Met what I think will be my future ( and last) wife...

- Bought two houses, bought two cars.

- Turned 40.

- Went to The Masters in Augusta.

- Moved to Delaware. Delawhere? Yeah.

 

[Muck]

Saw 9/11 from an almost completely unique standpoint
Acquired a 2nd X wife
Went back to Iraq (bit of a misnomer since I was in Kuwait last time around)
Watched another shuttle go down in flames
Finished thesis...lost desire to submit it
Began sprouting grey hairs
Informed by doctors on two occasions had less than a year to live....second time about a year ago
Reconnected with a lost love
Moved to a foreign country
Created two perfect beings to carry on

He was a fucking Zombie?!!!11?

Or am I to assume this list is not in chronological order?

I took it to mean he won a gunfight with his grandpa.

 

[Gatorubet]

Thus the past immediate decade ought to be the Aughts.

There's a naught in 2010...at the end!

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Saw 9/11 from an almost completely unique standpoint

From the cockpit of the plane bombing it???

 

[PlanetFrnd]

Was there a year zero?

No, but there was a day one of 365 on Jan 1... when do you start counting the days and years of the common era?

 

[Muck]

Fear The Indestructible Muck!!

The truth is a bit more prosaic...

I was on watch at Ft. Meade when the first plane hit the building....and was one of the skeleton crew of watch standers who stayed on duty when the NSA building was evacuated.