Fill it with glitter Dean. Than it will be the gift that keeps giving WAY into the 2010. I pretty sure there is not a process in the world that can completly clean up spilled glitter.
Yeah maybe in a year they could start the new decade… I am so sick of the media trying to force us to believe the decades run from zero to 9 like an odometer, calenders run from 1 to 10, but the change from 999 to 000 is exciting and from 000 to 001 is not so they try to change it. There was never a year zero, it is a philosophical absurdity to think they made a calender and called the second year, One…..
Get over it, Redkaycei. People like to define decades as “the 20’s”, “the 40’s”, “the 60’s”, and so on, in the same way it’s easier (i.e. more intuitive) to think of “the 1400’s” (1400-1499) than “the 15th Century” (1401-1500). There may never have been a Year 0, but it’s equally absurd to say that the year 1980 (for example) was the last year of the 8th Decade of the 20th Century rather than the first year of the 1980’s. January 1, 2000, was the day that the year started beginning with a “2” rather than a “1”. That’s what people notice, that’s what they care about.
Just reconcile yourself to the convenient fiction that the 1st Decade only had 9 years, the 1st Century had 99 years, the 1st Milennium had 999 years… Your blood pressure will thank you.
It’s not a matter of kool aid, it’s a matter of nobody (with a few anal exceptions) giving a rat’s fanny that there was no Year 0. Whether you refer to the past 10 years as being a Decade or merely a decade (and any 10-year period is a decade, even if you started in 1997), they are “the Aughts” or “the 00’s” or whatever, and they began on Jan. 1, 2000. By the same token, a decade ago we looked back at “the 90’s” (which began with 1990) and a decade earlier “the 80’s” (which began in 1980).
It’s all arbitrary, anyway. It is widely held that Dionysius Exiguus was mistaken about the year Herod died, and that Jesus was born as early as the year 6 “BC.” He may also have been born as late as 6 “AD,” the year of Quirinius’ census. How’s that for absurdity? Whether you use “Anno Domini” or “Common Era” as your terminology, the currently-used numbering wasn’t put in place until the “6th Century.” Nobody in Year 1 was aware that they were in Year 1, or would have cared. Nobody but a few monks would have known or cared whether the end of the 1st Milennium fell on Dec. 31, 999, or Dec. 31, 1000.
Here’s another way around the issue, if you like. Imagine that the period of time between Dec. 25, 1 “BC” and Jan. 1, 1 “AD” was a week-long “Year 0.”
A few years ago that happened to a colleague of mine. He was sick, we didn’t know why, until we found out that he had looked into a confetti cannon when it went off. Still gets mentioned in conversations every now and then.
Wenthral almost 15 years ago
Fill it with glitter Dean. Than it will be the gift that keeps giving WAY into the 2010. I pretty sure there is not a process in the world that can completly clean up spilled glitter.
Lyons Group, Inc. almost 15 years ago
Sounds like 2010 is going to be a great year!
Asrial almost 15 years ago
Heart sure got it, all right ! Maybe they could start the new decade with a kiss ? With each other !!
Redkaycei almost 15 years ago
Yeah maybe in a year they could start the new decade… I am so sick of the media trying to force us to believe the decades run from zero to 9 like an odometer, calenders run from 1 to 10, but the change from 999 to 000 is exciting and from 000 to 001 is not so they try to change it. There was never a year zero, it is a philosophical absurdity to think they made a calender and called the second year, One…..
CatComixzStudios almost 15 years ago
I prefer to drop shreaded cheese at my parties. That way you don’t have to worry about eatting the confetti.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Get over it, Redkaycei. People like to define decades as “the 20’s”, “the 40’s”, “the 60’s”, and so on, in the same way it’s easier (i.e. more intuitive) to think of “the 1400’s” (1400-1499) than “the 15th Century” (1401-1500). There may never have been a Year 0, but it’s equally absurd to say that the year 1980 (for example) was the last year of the 8th Decade of the 20th Century rather than the first year of the 1980’s. January 1, 2000, was the day that the year started beginning with a “2” rather than a “1”. That’s what people notice, that’s what they care about.
Just reconcile yourself to the convenient fiction that the 1st Decade only had 9 years, the 1st Century had 99 years, the 1st Milennium had 999 years… Your blood pressure will thank you.
Redkaycei almost 15 years ago
My blood pressure thinks you are stupid and drinking the media kool aid
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
It’s not a matter of kool aid, it’s a matter of nobody (with a few anal exceptions) giving a rat’s fanny that there was no Year 0. Whether you refer to the past 10 years as being a Decade or merely a decade (and any 10-year period is a decade, even if you started in 1997), they are “the Aughts” or “the 00’s” or whatever, and they began on Jan. 1, 2000. By the same token, a decade ago we looked back at “the 90’s” (which began with 1990) and a decade earlier “the 80’s” (which began in 1980).
It’s all arbitrary, anyway. It is widely held that Dionysius Exiguus was mistaken about the year Herod died, and that Jesus was born as early as the year 6 “BC.” He may also have been born as late as 6 “AD,” the year of Quirinius’ census. How’s that for absurdity? Whether you use “Anno Domini” or “Common Era” as your terminology, the currently-used numbering wasn’t put in place until the “6th Century.” Nobody in Year 1 was aware that they were in Year 1, or would have cared. Nobody but a few monks would have known or cared whether the end of the 1st Milennium fell on Dec. 31, 999, or Dec. 31, 1000.
Here’s another way around the issue, if you like. Imagine that the period of time between Dec. 25, 1 “BC” and Jan. 1, 1 “AD” was a week-long “Year 0.”
Decepticomic over 3 years ago
rerun
alien011 10 months ago
A few years ago that happened to a colleague of mine. He was sick, we didn’t know why, until we found out that he had looked into a confetti cannon when it went off. Still gets mentioned in conversations every now and then.