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When did we stop living in real time and start living in a year that looks like a bad sci-fi comic from the 60s?

"2007" just seems so wrong.

Discuss.

― JTS (JTS), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

A couple of us were talking about this today, oddly enough.

"IN THE FUTURE!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061231/ENT05/612310308/1132/LIFE

― grady (grady), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just saying, "how did we get over halfway through this decade?" I can't quite get my head around it.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sorry, but Grady's link is ALL about the K-drama synopses:

'INFAMOUS CHILL SISTERS'

EPISODES 49 AND 50

Tonight at 7: Michill's and Ilhan's happiness is short-lived when they argue over baby plans. Hanam receives Seolchill's message, and Seolchill heads back to Seoul. Shinja is irate when she sees Deokchill and Seontaek canoodling after work.

Tonight at 8: Jongchill breaks down when Taeja tells her about his draft notice. However, the two band together to tell Chansoon the bad news. But Chansoon doesn't take the news well. Chansoon criticizes Seolchill for coming home late.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Funny, I found myself thinking last night that 2007 will be the first year this decade that I haven't had WTF ITS THE FUTURE thoughts.

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/5465/b2fcw3.jpg

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver (hoosteen), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

it's not going to be hard for me to get used to because it's part of my school e-mail address and for some reason we are always identified by class year. in fact, i started writing '07 in dates accidentally a month or two ago.

― Maria e (Maria), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't totally given up writing "19--" on occasion. Help me, I just can't integrate reality!

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

2002 was the last notable year number. Since then it's just been a big speedy blur, which has coincided with my 30s.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 01:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Speedy Blur!

Playing "Song 2" on 78rpm!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Sigh. So 2007 will be the same as 2006 (and 2005, 2004....)

― Frogm@n henry (Frogm@n henry), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Speedy Blur!

Playing "Song 2" on 78rpm!

Haha, AFI covered "Song 2" on the MTV New Year's special last night.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link

"boo hoo!" *headbang*

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver (hoosteen), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link

2006 I had been anticipating for a long time b/c it was my high school graduating year, but 2007 kind of snuck up on me (as did turning 19 - really, wtf happens when you're 19?)

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it's a beautiful looking number (and I'm not saying that as a way to say I am expecting it to be a good year).

― RSLaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a multiple of nine, and I always like multiples of nine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link

wtf happens when you're 19?

my experience tells me that amazing things happen.

― grady (grady), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link

all "wtf 2007" brings to mind for me is that we only have two more years of these left:

http://www.sensibleparties.makesparties.com/images/ProductImages/S9223.jpg

Because only Momus will be able to sport the 2010 versions.

― grady (grady), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link

and even then he'd have to wear them upside down.

― grady (grady), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/tapestore/g2ogle.gif

WTF Google?! Whilst sitting in my high school Journalism lab (the bastion of design), I've long praised your graphics, but this one sucks ass. G2OGLE?!?!?! I'm ashamed.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm reading that as "Gzogte" which is kind of awesome.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link

That's Polish for "panty-twisting."

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Snap, Curtis. I'll be 20 in November 07 :( Maybe one reason I'm scared of 07 is because 2006 was the final academic year I spent with my old school friends. Now we don't have the year in common any more, we may soon drift apart. Soon I'll be back at uni though and I'll be OK.

Does anyone remember when you used to see expiry years on batteries such as "2007" and think, woah, that year is a whole world away....

However I remember thinking in 2002, that 2005 would be a stereotypical "future" setting and my whole kitchen would be in chrome, but that never happened fortunately. :)

― JTS (JTS), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

im hoping our kid decides to be born on her due date: 02/27/2007. nice date, right?

― sunny successor (katarina), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

and name her 'Ozzy-Zoot'

― Ste (fuzzy), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm sorry, that was shit, i'm so tired and all festived out.

― Ste (fuzzy), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just saying, "how did we get over halfway through this decade?" I can't quite get my head around it.
-- Sara Robinson-Coolidge (sr...), January 1st, 2007.

this happened two years ago!

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

since US political time is going backwards (ever since Reagan), I'm not getting the futuristic vibe.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

obviously you have not seen the latest in dancing robots and bowling simulators from the isle of nippon

― TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just saying, "how did we get over halfway through this decade?" I can't quite get my head around it.
-- Sara Robinson-Coolidge (sr...), January 1st, 2007.

this happened two years ago!

-- temporary enrique

I know! Somehow that makes it worse, not better, though. (Seriously, I remember the flip to 1990 way too clearly for it to be 2007.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

To celebrate 2007 I bought a Superchunk album.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm excited about this decade's Appetite For Destruction/Marquee Moon/Sgt. Pepper's being released this year.

Also, my birthyear is now officially closer to Pearl Harbor than it is to the present year.

― PPlains (PPlains), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

was this the Appetite For Destruction/Marquee Moon/Sgt. Pepper's of 1997?

http://static.last.fm/coverart/300x300/1414860.jpg

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

no it was
http://i.walmart.com/i/p/00/72/43/87/39/0072438739272_500X500.jpg

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i was just getting ready to start an ILM thread on that subject.

― grady (grady), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

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