I have noticed, reading the newspapers over the last few days, that there is a tradition of writing articles of insignificant insight giving “news” about the passing of one year into the next. “The sun went down as expected last night, as people around the world prepared for the new year by going to bed, eventually…”
Here’s my contribution to the genre:
Get prepared for two years of exceptional merry making, because, after the New Year’s Eve parties at the end of 2008, it will be one thousand years before people will be able to celebrate the coming of a new year by wearing glasses covered with glitter, showing the year to come!
Experts do not agree on what impact the lack of New Year’s Eve party glasses will have on humanity, but some speculate that it could have about as much impact as the Y2K bug or the H5N1 bird flu virus!
Right, after 2009. Although, theoretically one could don a pair of 2020 glasses (and 2030, etc) but they’d be a bit off to one side (as the British say about us anyway).
An exclamation after the date would balance that all out. 2020! But who wants to have a “2″ on their nose?