<div><div dir="auto">All things considered, I will be calling this this the Last Dickade.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And good riddance to it, on some levels. I hope we don't make the next one worse-- premonitions to the contrary notwithstanding.  </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mac</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 7:46 PM Dana Blankenhorn <<a href="mailto:danablankenhorn@gmail.com">danablankenhorn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I remember complaining all through the last decade that they should call it the "aughts," as they called the first decade of the 1900s the aughts, and no one did.<div><br></div><div>A few weeks ago, I hear someone talking about the last decade and guess what they called it? The aughts. </div><div><br></div><div>Which means these will be the teens to our children and grandchildren. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 6:59 PM Brian Santo <<a href="mailto:thedukeofdefinition@gmail.com" target="_blank">thedukeofdefinition@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The meh decade.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 3:51 PM Tom Henderson <<a href="mailto:thenderson@extremelabs.com" target="_blank">thenderson@extremelabs.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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