From: e-mail.me@from.BRmovie.com   
      
   Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   Replicant The Quiet American covertly transmitting a message to   
   renegade friends in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
      
   >"Gnomus"  wrote in message   
   >news:311220092351435397%Eat@Joe's.com...   
   >> In article , POD  {Ò¿Ó}   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Aye, aint I great!   
   >>   
   >> Mighty grand, yes -- but doesn't the new decade start with 2011?   
   >   
   >@POD: Yes, yes, yes, you are the world's greatest something I'm sure. ;-)   
   >   
   >@Gnomus: No, no, no, the decade comprises single-digit years 00 through 09   
   >inclusive. With succeeding decades just keep adding ones to the tens column.   
      
   I would separate the decades argument completely from the millennia   
   argument. Therefore I concur with "the whatever is in the tens column"   
   as he only relevant criterion for marking change of decade.   
      
   So happy new decade. Counting a step closer to 2019.   
      
   Netrunner   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)