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On 2025-06-29 23:20:27 +0000, solar penguin said:
> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>> On 2025-06-29 11:24:48 +0000, Daniel70 said:
>>> On 29/06/2025 00:53, The Doctor wrote:
>>>> In article <103pf4o$10ujq$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>> 
>>>> BTW 1500 BCE.
>>> 
>>> WHAT?? YOU, Binky, using 'BCE' rather than 'BC'!!
>>> 
>>> Will wonders never cease??
>> 
>> "BCE" is the Politically Correcterised nonsense because whiners
>> complain about "BC" being too religious based / biased (i.e. Christian,
>> rather than any other religion or no religion) ... that is what the
>> entire Western and business calendar system is based on anyway. Adding
>> a pointless "E" on the end doesn't actually change anything except to
>> appease morons wit nothing better to do.
> 
> I first saw BCE in the Virgin NAs, so I always think of it as a
> Doctor Who way of writing dates.
> 
> Plus it’s fun to say out loud because you get three rhyming
> letters instead of just two.

The problem is that "BCE" means "Before Common Era", but very few 
people actually know what the silly "common era" actually is.

Plain old "BC" is at least understandable by almost everybody, whether 
or not they believe in the mythological Jesus, who wasn't actually born 
2025 years ago even according to Biblical scholars.