Comments on: Okay, Somebody Really Messed This Up http://finkorswim.com/2010/01/04/okay-somebody-really-messed-this-up/ The Rabbi on the Beach at the Shul on the Beach Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rabbifink http://finkorswim.com/2010/01/04/okay-somebody-really-messed-this-up/#comment-1458 rabbifink Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:54:00 +0000 http://finkorswim.com/?p=1972#comment-1458 Just a typo. Fixed it now. Thanks. Just a typo. Fixed it now. Thanks.

]]> By: Mike Wilson http://finkorswim.com/2010/01/04/okay-somebody-really-messed-this-up/#comment-1457 Mike Wilson Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:51:04 +0000 http://finkorswim.com/?p=1972#comment-1457 I was just curious if "Ninety-Ninety-Nine" was a typo. If not, why would the "nineteen" rule not apply to the year 1999 as it does for 1995 or 1950. I was just curious if “Ninety-Ninety-Nine” was a typo. If not, why would the “nineteen” rule not apply to the year 1999 as it does for 1995 or 1950.

]]> By: Dinky Londoner http://finkorswim.com/2010/01/04/okay-somebody-really-messed-this-up/#comment-1456 Dinky Londoner Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:15:36 +0000 http://finkorswim.com/?p=1972#comment-1456 While we're at it, could they change it in Israel too? It's not great for a Modern Hebrew student to have to work out one-thousand-nine-hundred-and-sixty-nine etc each time a date of birth is given. While we’re at it, could they change it in Israel too? It’s not great for a Modern Hebrew student to have to work out one-thousand-nine-hundred-and-sixty-nine etc each time a date of birth is given.

]]> By: Ben http://finkorswim.com/2010/01/04/okay-somebody-really-messed-this-up/#comment-1455 Ben Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:38:28 +0000 http://finkorswim.com/?p=1972#comment-1455 Pat Kiernan made this point (mine, too) in an op-ed for Mediaite that got some attention here in NY last week. (Cited in NY Post, etc.) http://www.mediaite.com/print/welcome-to-20-10/ I'm still not sure where I stand on this. I'm too used to saying "two thousand" to change, even though "twenty" might be more correct. Also, think what you want to be saying 700 years from now. Pat Kiernan made this point (mine, too) in an op-ed for Mediaite that got some attention here in NY last week. (Cited in NY Post, etc.)

http://www.mediaite.com/print/welcome-to-20-10/

I’m still not sure where I stand on this. I’m too used to saying “two thousand” to change, even though “twenty” might be more correct. Also, think what you want to be saying 700 years from now.

]]> By: rabbifink http://finkorswim.com/2010/01/04/okay-somebody-really-messed-this-up/#comment-1453 rabbifink Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:22:01 +0000 http://finkorswim.com/?p=1972#comment-1453 Wow. Paul, you may very well be correct. I had not thought of that. It's all Kubrick's fault!!! Wow.

Paul, you may very well be correct. I had not thought of that. It’s all Kubrick’s fault!!!

]]> By: Paul Mc http://finkorswim.com/2010/01/04/okay-somebody-really-messed-this-up/#comment-2664 Paul Mc Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:13:00 +0000 http://finkorswim.com/?p=1972#comment-2664 I believe it started with 2001: A Space Odyssey. I believe it started with 2001: A Space Odyssey.

]]> By: tesyaa http://finkorswim.com/2010/01/04/okay-somebody-really-messed-this-up/#comment-1449 tesyaa Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:09:47 +0000 http://finkorswim.com/?p=1972#comment-1449 Efink, I think it's your fault. Why didn't you say something at the time??? No one knew there was a problem! Efink, I think it’s your fault. Why didn’t you say something at the time??? No one knew there was a problem!

]]> By: rabbifink http://finkorswim.com/2010/01/04/okay-somebody-really-messed-this-up/#comment-1447 rabbifink Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:35:55 +0000 http://finkorswim.com/?p=1972#comment-1447 I dunno, maybe twenty-oh-oh. Or Even two-thousand, but the next year should have been twenty-oh-one. Wait, you seem awfully defensive - Is this your doing?? ;) I dunno, maybe twenty-oh-oh. Or Even two-thousand, but the next year should have been twenty-oh-one.

Wait, you seem awfully defensive – Is this your doing?? ;)

]]> By: Ben http://finkorswim.com/2010/01/04/okay-somebody-really-messed-this-up/#comment-2661 Ben Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:30:00 +0000 http://finkorswim.com/?p=1972#comment-2661 What, pray tell, would you have called 2000? What, pray tell, would you have called 2000?

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