what are your feelings towards "2005", the number?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

it feels unevenly weighted, in a way that 2004 didn't. is it just the even/odd thing?

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 1 January 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

I think it's real butch. 2004 was such a sissy number.

― Steely Zan (AaronHz), Saturday, 1 January 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

ha, when i think of 2005, i think of harley davidson

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Saturday, 1 January 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

Every year now is a Space Odyssey.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 1 January 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

According to Bush, Americans will be on Mars in 25 years.

America will be lucky if there out of Iraq in 25 years.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Saturday, 1 January 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

I think 2004 made better glasses. A crucial consideration.

http://www.news-leader.com/today/1231-NewYorkgea_1.jpg

― Hunter (Hunter), Saturday, 1 January 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

Two has something of the swan about it. And then the caboose: gliding across a placid lake.

― youn, Saturday, 1 January 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

I like it, it feels like a round neat number somehow. A year of tidying up maybe.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 1 January 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

pink white white red

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 1 January 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/emurphy23/hammer.txt

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 January 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

It's a little symmeterical. Take 20, put it in front of a mirror, and you have 05. It's not exactly 1961, but still pretty cool.

― Pleasant Plains ///, Saturday, 1 January 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm kinda numb to the whole 2004-2005 changeover, since I never really did get accustomed to seeing "2004" in the first place. I think the last year number I ever really did get used to seeing, writing, accepting as the True Year In My Mind, etc., was 2003. After that -- uh, what the hell happened to 2004, anyway?

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 1 January 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I've written a year out since I stopped using cheques a long while back.

2004 was a transition year.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 1 January 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

2005 is futuristic.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Saturday, 1 January 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

A little too reminiscent of "In the Year 2525."

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 1 January 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Same chords.

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Saturday, 1 January 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

It spells ZOOS.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 1 January 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

it's kind of sharp and so i liked 2004 better but hey it sounds a little more futuristic!

― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 1 January 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

It spells ZOOS.

Hey, my mom did that in Scrabble last night! I still won by five points though...

― Steely Zan (AaronHz), Sunday, 2 January 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

It makes a nice shadow.

― youn, Sunday, 2 January 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

2003 seems like ten years ago

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 2 January 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Not to me! 2003 seems like yesterday to me! A terrifying, nightmarish yesterday, granted, but yesterday nonetheless.

What's fucked with my mind throughout the day -- the dawning, in my mind, that 1995 was actually ten years ago. I clearly remember 1995. I remember VH1's "Crossroads", the 10th anniversary airing of Live Aid, my first high school dance, "Northern Exposure", the oppressively hot and rain-free summer (featuring Stage III water restrictions), Liz Phair, Duran Duran covering a RAP song (which has become a crowd favorite in concert), my first full year with a CD player, the time I caught wind of this thing called "the Internet", which to me sounded like something I REALLY, really wanted to be a part of, Dad driving me to school the fall semester of my sophomore year while I repeatedly played my Elastica tape on my Walkman over and over and over, going back to the Bay Area and Tacoma to revisit old haunts, visit with relatives in the area, etc., moving into the house I currently live in today.... God. To think that all of those occurrences will celebrate their tenth anniversaries this year... unreal.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 2 January 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

Starts with character but rounds off in the middle, and the end is a poor imitation of the beginning. Margaret?

― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 2 January 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

"According to Bush, Americans will be on Mars in 25 years.
America will be lucky if there out of Iraq in 25 years."

OTM.

New Year's Eve 1999 seems like six months ago.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 2 January 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

Samantha's right.

Supergrass's "Alright"? - Ten years ago
Blur vs Oasis - TEN YEARS AGO!
Smoking my first cigarette - TEN YEARS AGO!
My first kiss - Must've beeen ten years ago!

AAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!111

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 3 January 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

If 2005 was a washed-up celeb it would be Pat Sharp (from the mullet era).

Wearing its bad hair proudly and soldiering on to make the kids happy.

thats our friend, 2005.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 3 January 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

BUT WHAT ABOUT 1985??????

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 3 January 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

oh THAT ancient relic of a number.

embrace the future with yesterdays television stars.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 3 January 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

2005 = YEAR OF THE COWBELL:

http://images.blaggernet.org/cowbell.gif

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 January 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

I agree with the sentiment of this question. I think this every year although I think it's more complicated than the odd/even thing, although most even ones are better. I like 1977 and 1997 for example, but not 1987: what the fuck is going on?

To be honest, none of the 2000 numbers have felt right to me; 2004 was probably the best. It just isn't as cool.

― KeithW (kmw), Monday, 3 January 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Nickalicious, I kiss you.

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 3 January 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Weird - dog latin discovered both girls and cigarettes the same year I did! And I didn't realize until now that it was a freakin' decade ago!

2005 seems like the highest number to me. I mean where do you go after 2005?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 3 January 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.