Say goodbye to the decade with no name

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/18/2009 01:26 AM, Seán Fitzpatrick wrote:
>True but not too relevant.  MOST of the years 2011-2020 (or vulgarly
>2010-2019) *are*  teens.
>Not that it matters.  Except for the "Roaring Twenties", and the obvious
>"'teens" and "oughts" (cf. Fibber McGee's "19 ought 10"), decades are not
>named in the Volksmund.

Except by Brel?

The Twenties roar
The Thirties scream
The Forties burn
The Fifties zing
The Sixties swing
The Seventies flash
The Eighties bang
The Nineties whimper
(and the century hangs)

Joel

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