***Important Warning For 2009***

The new millennium has brought its share of bad things (the War on Terror, the movie "Eragon", etc.), but it has also brought wonderful things to our lives.

One of these "good things" is the ability to cleverly turn a numerical representation of the year into a pair of novelty glasses, where your eyes can peer through the two zeros in "2000-Something".
I'm sure many of us had a blast last night, sporting glasses such as these:



Well, when I got to work this morning, and saw all the people on the front page of the Seattle Times wearing their 2008 Novelty Glasses, I got a sense that, "You don't know what you've got until it's gone".



You see, I was struck by the fact that next year, many of us will usher in the new year, drunk and oblivious to the fact that when we wear our updated "2009 Novelty Glasses", we'll be doing something momentous, and saying goodbye, forever, to this possibility.

2009 will be the last time, in our lives on Earth, that such spectacles can be worn.
After 2009, we'll get into the 2010's, into the 2020's, 2030's, 2040's....
You're seeing the grim picture here...and then, like a punch in the gut, the impossible, ugly truth...we will not be able to wear glasses of this style again until.........THE YEAR 3000.





Take a second to absorb that.






Now I know some will try to hold on, possibly making Novelty Glasses of a new, more clumsy design, like this:


But that asymmetry is CRIMINAL, not to mention the chafing from the poorly distributed weight of the lopsided glasses.



We've been frittering away the best, the B.E.S.T. possible era for Novelty Glasses, and, people....we've got ONE. MORE. YEAR. and *p00f*....it's gone.

So, make the most of it.
-Thank You-

 

I knew if this warning could help just one person, then this thread was worth it.
Now next year, you go out there and wear the **** out of those 2009 glasses!

 

Well, in truth, neither do I, ordinarily.


My favorite part of the Millennium Falcon:




My favorite part of Mike Tyson:




But, just, in light of the fact that you can't have anymore until the year 3000 ?!?......it's a little hard to contemplate.

 

It would be like being behind the bars of a prison cell.