As they're nearly over, let's name the Aughts (this decade, in other words)

[Bossy Monkey]

or Oughts, if you prefer.

[rurallib]

1. the Bush royally fucked it up oughts?

[Bossy Monkey]

4. It's up

Could equally be "Bush royalty" :)

[KamaAina]

2. The Al Franken Decade

(starts as soon as the court finally whacks snot-nosed Coleman over the hand with a ruler and sends him to time out)

[Bossy Monkey]

6. It's up, though strictly speaking that should be the next decade

As Joe Franken already had his decade, maybe he can get busy so Al can have a grandchild who can have that decade instead.:)

[Greyskye]

3. The Naughties.

It's what I've been calling 'em. No one listens to poor Zathras, no.

[Bossy Monkey]

5. It's up.

The Naughty Naughties also works (as in Republican torturers, intelligence fakers, Ponzi schemers all getting away with it)

[Bossy Monkey]

7. Or not n/t

[TK421]

8. The dread-naughts....I couldn't come up with anything else

but I felt that was appropriate :)

[Bossy Monkey]

9. Ex-cel-lent, though to avoid confusion with the battleships,

could make it the Dread-everything Naughts. Very clever your way, though.:thumbsup:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. The Oughties.

As in zero.

[jobycom]

11. Can't we just forget they happened?

[Bossy Monkey]

12. Worth a try. Doesn't everything end in 2012 anyway?

I am sometimes tickled that my driver's license and passport both are valid past the apocalypse.

[Bossy Monkey]

13. As usual, I forgot the one that inspired the poll: EPIC FAIL n/t

[modrepub]

14. The lost aughties

You name it, we lost it! (money, respect, sanity, etc.)

[SOteric]

15. How 'bout:

The zero sum decade.

[Bossy Monkey]

16. Ouch. Too true, though it may even be negative sum n/t