So, the other day as Uncle Edgester pondered the imponderable, which brings to mind a former "Cheers" star with some serious weight issues who is pretty imponderable herself, especially when she was on that one reality show, and what we really like about reality shows is how they emphasize important values like, uh, well, celebrity, which is much more important than talent or skills or contributing to society or ...



We seem to have wandered off subject a bit.



What we meant to ponder was what to call this all-but-spent decade, because labels matter you know, and calling the '00s something stupid like the aughts or the social networking decade is, well ... wait a second, we're hearing "Fernando," so our cell must be ringing ...



As we were saying ...



If we're going to name this decade before it ends Friday ... uh wait a minute. Have a text message from a co-worker who sits next to me and I need to reply ("lunch, noon, is fine").



Where were we?



Think about it. Cell phones didn't become ubiquitous (and we couldn't look up the word on our iPhone) until this decade, so that must mean something. In fact, what we think it means is .... OMG. If we're reading this tweet right, Ashton Kutcher ate THREE hot dogs for lunch. We feel sooo connected and in the know. And to think, we couldn't do this in 1999.



Which brings us back to, uh, what was it again?



Wait. we haven't changed our status on Facebook for 15 minutes. Wow, we won $1,300 in Zynga Poker! Oh yeah, our status. Let's just make it, "in the middle of something."



Now, if we can just remember what.



Oh, that's right, a name for the past 10 years. How does Short Attention Span Decade sound?



