It's all Arthur C. Clarke's Fault

It's 2005 now, and I think it's high-time we as a society adopt a more succint way of referring to the years in this century. Something happened five years ago when we lost the very familiar and comfortable "nineteen", we now had a whole new century and it was simply cool to say "two thousand". So for a year it was "The Year 2000 (two thousand)", the next year inevitably was to become 2001, or two thousand and one. I thought for sure this would stop, but it hasn't.

What I'm proposing is for us to get back to the way we were for the previous several hundred years. So join me in ringing in the New Year 2005. Of course with my new plan, we won't say two thousand and five, but simply twenty o'five. Afterall, one hundred years ago, no one was saying, "It's the year one thousand nine hundred and five!" It just makes sense.

That's my hope for the new year; you're either with me or against me...