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What Should We Call the 2010’s?

Posted on 03/20/2011 by Backpacking Dad

Although my suggestion for “Naughties” for the years 2000-2009 never caught on during the actual decade (I still have hopes for retroactive adoption), there is still time to give our current decade, 2010-2019, a name.

So, here’s my suggestion: The Teenies.

2010 would just be known as Teeny. 2011 would be Teeny-one, 2012 would be Teeny-two. 2019 would be Teeny-nine.

Again, good people of Earth, go forth and proselytize. We are just starting out in the Teenies, but if we try hard we can make them the best Teenies of all time.

15 thoughts on “What Should We Call the 2010’s?”

  1. Dean Ouellette says:
    03/20/2011 at 12:52 PM

    Yea i like the naughties… but the teenies? I think we are going to have to keep working on that one. But remember it doesnt really matter because on 12/21/12 it all will end anyways.

    1. Backpacking Dad says:
      03/21/2011 at 1:49 PM

      Fatalism is the only way to go.

    2. Backpacking Dad says:
      03/21/2011 at 8:49 PM

      Fatalism is the only way to go.

  2. dbs says:
    03/20/2011 at 9:19 PM

    I am the father of teens. They're already spoiled so I'm sorry but I can't agree to naming the decade after them too.

    1. Backpacking Dad says:
      03/21/2011 at 1:49 PM

      Not teens. Teenies. Ask them if they want to be called "teenies" and I bet they say no. Think of it as a way to annoy your kids.

    2. Backpacking Dad says:
      03/21/2011 at 8:49 PM

      Not teens. Teenies. Ask them if they want to be called “teenies” and I bet they say no. Think of it as a way to annoy your kids.

  3. Redneck Mommy says:
    03/20/2011 at 9:36 PM

    I'm with dbs. No to the teenies. I'm already up to my eyes with them.

    1. Backpacking Dad says:
      03/21/2011 at 1:48 PM

      But they're so cute.

    2. Backpacking Dad says:
      03/21/2011 at 8:48 PM

      But they’re so cute.

  4. Jason Avant says:
    03/20/2011 at 9:38 PM

    I was going to comment, but I did the Google Follow Thing, and it asked me what my favorite Joss Whedon project was. Why does it need to know that? I mean, it's "Firefly", but still.

    1. Backpacking Dad says:
      03/20/2011 at 10:20 PM

      It's a new thing I'm trying: Annoy your readers with inane questions.

      Powered by Google.

  5. Henry Elliss says:
    03/21/2011 at 4:42 AM

    Here in the UK the term "Noughties" was used pretty thoroughly throughout the decade, so it might well have caught on without you realising it…! : )

    1. Backpacking Dad says:
      03/21/2011 at 1:47 PM

      But spelled with an "o" eh? Loses a bit of the double entendre there, England.

    2. Backpacking Dad says:
      03/21/2011 at 8:47 PM

      But spelled with an “o” eh? Loses a bit of the double entendre there, England.

  6. Karen Wilson says:
    03/29/2011 at 5:07 PM

    You've got some pretty brilliant ideas in your head. The Naughties I'm behind and I wish you'd told me sooner so I could use it. The Teenies? I believe in you – there's something better.

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