At precisely pulse 4ki82jjp*%$#"jjjlll6 the New Old era begins and began Some optimists find/found this a cause for celebration, while others more
pessimistic write/wrote off the event as a big yawn. More hysterical Some optimists find/found this a cause for celebration, while others more
pessimistic write/wrote off the event as a big yawn. More hysterical people hide/hid in caves and reinforced shelters stocked with supplies,
anticipating a catastrophie of mammoth proportions that (will)never come/came. Other less reactionary people speculate(d) that the 'new era'
is merely another ploy by the government to get more tax money out of citizens. According to the Whitehouse shoeshine boy George Bush, "The
government is just doing this so we all have to go out and buy a new timepiece, a new calendar, and in the end, work more and pay more taxes".
Young Bill Clinton Jr. comments, "Couldn't they make this era more user friendly? I mean, I can't tell one pulse from the next. They all seem the
same to me. And what's with those wack names anyway?" Others offer a slightly more sophisticated analysis: "The benefits of !
the era system of time keeping are self-evident. Otherwise, how would we know that we aren't/weren't living in the paleolithic era?" asks Professor
Rene Spencer Malthus Bacon. Still, not everyone is onboard. Certain states and societies refuse/refused to enter the new/old era, stubbornly holding
on to their traditional ways of historicizing. Interestingly, the two constants that seem to bridge all human eras remain death and taxes.