IS THE DECADE REALLY OVER?
(Or Here I Go Again - I’m Gonna Get A Lot of Crap For
This One!)
Time for some Green fun… But first, a million dollar
tip:
I am a Green. No, I’m not a follower of Al Gore’s
Church of Environmental Insanity. I’m talking about my
personality type.
A really long time ago Hippocrates identified the four
basic personality types - but he gave them some hard to
pronounce names based on some disgusting bodily
fluids*.
Jerry Clark decided to label them with Colors a few
years ago - much easier.
Anyways, we Greens make up 35% of the population. We
are the analytical, unemotional numbers crunchers and
philosophers. We drive salespeople nuts because we
cannot be sold. We need all the facts so we can analyze
them to death and take our time to decide. We are very
slow to take action. Star Trek’s Mr. Spock is our
poster boy.
Here’s the tip: Make Your presentation and give us lots
of stuff and website links to take home. Then leave us
the hell alone.
We will call You when we are ready to join. Or we may
call You and ask for Your affiliate number because we
are at the website and trying to sign-up on our own.
So, give us the number and then shut the hell up. If we
need help, then we just might ask You…someday.
Why would You want to have the patience to deal with
us? Because, once we make up our minds, WE NEVER, NEVER
QUIT! …and we are 35% of the population!
In fact, we are so tenacious, we wonder why YOU don’t
get it or can’t stay focused! Yes, WE are frustrated by
YOU - the outgoing, natural salesperson.
Now, for the Green fun… The rest of You will not care
about this stuff, so just go party (Blues), hug someone
(Yellows), or tally up Your 2009 income, assets and
body parts left on the battlefield (Reds).
(If You want to learn how to identify people’s
personalities in seconds and know how to deal with
them, then read the book in the upper left corner.)
TO DECADE OR NOT TO DECADE - Centuries and Millennia Too
Many folks (mostly Greens) are still arguing about when
the 21st Century began - and, of course, whether or not
a new Decade just began.
OK, mathematically a Decade means TEN (not nine), a
Century means ONE HUNDRED (not ninety-nine), and a
Millennium means ONE THOUSAND.
OK, before we debate this, can we agree on one thing?
There was NO YEAR ZERO!
The first year in our calendar was called Year
One…and the 100th year was Year One Hundred - the
last year of the First Century. That’s why most of the
Second Century’s years have a ONE in front of them:
101, 102, 103, 110, 120, 130, etc. The last year of the
Second Century was Year Two Hundred.
So, why come most people thought the Year 2000 was the
start of the new millennium and the Twenty-First
Century?
Two reasons:
First. After World War II centralized public education
- infested by teachers unions, and influenced by
enemies of Western Civilization - has dumbed us down to
the point where our mass intellect is roughly at the
level of the Dark Ages.
This explains why the masses are so superstitious and
buy into so many scams, myths and hoaxes.
NEITHER OUR ENEMIES NOR OUR LEADERS WANT US TO BE
CRITICAL THINKERS. Critical Thinkers are not easily
controlled. If they could not dumb us down, then they
would simply murder us as Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and
others did with theirs.
Second. The Y2K Hoax. Remember that? The odometer
rolling over from 19 to 20 was going to cause planes to
drop out of the sky, trains to crash, the power grid to
shut down, and banks and Wall Street to collapse.
All right, so the bank and Wall Street collapse was
delayed eight years. But it had nothing to do with Y2K.
It was the greed, corruption, and agenda of folks such
as Fannie, Freddie, Goldman Sachs, Barney Frank, and
Chris Dodd. (Paying attention, my New England friends?)
(DISCLAIMER: I own shares of Goldman Sachs. I may like
my soap box, but I’m no fool.)
Anyways, the Year 2000 was the last year of the 20th
Century and 2001 was the first year of the 21st
Century. Nuff said.
MATH vs. CULTURE
What about this decade thing? Math purists tell me 2010
is the last year of the First Decade - and that is
accurate, mathematically.
But Decades are CULTURAL things. We refer to the music,
movies, books, etc. of the 1940’s, 1960’s, and so on…
Do we consider 1960 to be part of the 1950’s? Hell no!
Archives group stuff from 1960 with the ’60’s.
So, the year 2000 was the first year of the past
decade. 2010 is the first year of the “teen’s” - a word
derived from “ten”.
AUGHT NAUGHT?
What do we call this past decade anyway? We had the
20’s, 30’s, etc.
What WAS this part decade? The Zero’s? The Oh’s? WHAT?
I’m banking on the “Aught’s”.
Aught - an archaic word we lazy, dumbed-down people
don’t say anymore. It’s easier for us to pronounce
“Oh”.
But folks 101 years ago referred to
“nineteen-aught-nine” - and they called the decade the
“aught’s”.
TWO THOUSAND OR TWENTY?
When are we going to stop with the “two thousand” crap
and start saying “twenty”? I’m betting it starts THIS
year, 2010.
Why? Because we are a basically lazy race and practice
syllabic economy.
2009 was called “two-thou-sand-nine” with four
syllables. “Twen-ty-oh-nine” would have been four as
well, but we had the “two thousand” habit. Besides.
“twen-ty-nine” (three syllables) would have made no
sense.
But now, “two-thou-sand-ten” is four syllables while
“twen-ty-ten” is only three. So, there You go!
TOLD You I was a Green, did I! (Yes, of course Yoda was
a Green - he was PERFECT.)
*Need MORE proof? OK! Hippocrates named the four
personality types Sanguine (blood), Choleric (yellow
bile), Melancholy (black bile), and Phlegmatic (snot).
Disgusting, this is! Jerry’s Blue, Red, Green, and
Yellow much better is.
For further enlightenment on Personality Colors and
millions of dollars worth of other tips and stuff,
grab the free book at the upper right corner of this page.
Something we can all agree on - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
I needed a holiday fun break.
Your Friend and Servant,
Ken Klemm
+1-215-722-3274 any time















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