This is just 2012 written in Roman Numerals making it look so much more badass. This makes you also seem so much more intellectual than you actually are. Each "M" stands for 1000, the "X" stands for 10, and each "I" stands for 1 so 1000+1000+10+1+1=2012.
Hey man can you read this? I can. MMXII just means 2012, damn am I the only person that's smart enough to read this?
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)