Mayan Apocalypse

[bigdaddy]

There are only a few more hours left for it to end here. If it doesn't end I'm going to have to say "Shit, my bad! Sorry!" to way too many people.

And maybe beg for my job back.

 

[B.J.]

^^ Ouch. I've had four and I thought I was bad off. Get yourself in for a lithotripsy-- or at least an Rx for Demerol.

All but one passed without surgery, so they're not big enough for lithotripsy. And I have hydrocodone on hand at all times, even though when it's really bad, the drugs really do nothing.

Well, it's officially the 22nd here now. Now what?

 

[splodenode]

I think we've peaked.

 

[splodenode]

Get ready for the comedown.

 

[Gov Kodos]

 

[Roshi]

 

[MacLeod]

So does this mean we have started a new Mayan Count Long Clanader?

So does that mean the end of the world will now be 13th Oct 4772?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar#Long_Count

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Even Harold Camping is having a chuckle over this one. lol

 

[lurok]

Carter rocks

 

[Ln X]

Another doom and gloom song; U2's Until the end of the world...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI6sBdA99c8

 

[Lonemagpie]

So, when's the next Apocraplyse (Apocryphal Apocalypse, as per Pratchett & Gaiman)

 

[Aeronef]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCRZZC-DH7M[/yt]

 

[cooleddie74]

The Seinfeld finale was more rewarding than this was.

Maybe that's what the Mayan Apocalypse needed....guest stars from previous end-of-the-world theories coming back for one last hurrah, with the Soup Nazi thrown in for good measure.

 

[Peacemaker]

Carter rocks

I ironically, I had a Stargate dream last night. Hmmm

 

[ManOnTheWave]

The Seinfeld finale was more rewarding than this was.

This needs to be inscribed in marble.

 

[JES]

Can we please refrain from any Mayan calendar jokes until after December 21st has come and gone, so that we don't jinx things. I'll even make a deal: if nothing has happened by December 23rd, 12:00 pm, I'll make wisecracks with you all. But for now, I see this moment as a time of somber self-reflection.

I think now is a time to reflect on our selves, and to meditate on how we can improve ourselves and attain a greater peace, even if the next several hours were to be our last, and to think of reasons why God might find our civilization worthy to continue to advance unabated.

Is this a joke?

What really gets to me is some people to seem to give this actual thought.

Yep, pretty much.

Hey, I didn't want to get caught unawares (whatever good that would have done). Forgive me if I treat any apparent threat seriously! Okay, so I was desperately hoping it wasn't true. Wish apparently granted.

Now that there is no apparent threat, now it is okay to joke away.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Forgive me if I treat any apparent threat seriously!

There was no threat, except for ignorance.

 

[Tiberius]

The date was wrong! I just noticed that our own calendar ends on December 31st! That's when the world is going to end! The Mayans were just out by ten days!

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Hey, I didn't want to get caught unawares (whatever good that would have done). Forgive me if I treat any apparent threat seriously! Okay, so I was desperately hoping it wasn't true. Wish apparently granted.

Now that there is no apparent threat, now it is okay to joke away.

Good lord, you were serious? Your posts were such a hodgepodge of new-age nonsense, mismatched mythology, alien absurdity, and doomsday delusion that I thought it couldn't possibly be for real, and that you were just messing with us.

I don't know what's funnier, that you thought the apocalypse would hinge on whether or not I was polite to "it" (talk about an ego boost --apparently the world does revolve around me), or that you thought the God of Abraham was somehow in charge of handling Mayan calendar changes and the non-apocalypses that go with them, and that God's mood also depended on whether I took the apocalypse seriously or not.

But thanks for the permission to let us joke around now, dad. How do you even go outside each day? If you see a homeless guy wearing a "The End is Near" sandwich board do you run for cover?

Says you; I still have a lot to live for. I'd take having to look at splodenode's avatar every day over a cataclysm happening tomorrow.

And I don't think it is a good idea to treat apocalypse rudely. Please refrain from doing so, to avoid jinxing things for everyone. Maybe if we're courteous, it will turn around and leave.

Besides, with that sort of attitude, the apocalypse would probably leave that avatar floating around as a wireless signal, where it will probably be intercepted by some unsuspecting spacecraft or distant planet.

Can we please refrain from any Mayan calendar jokes until after December 21st has come and gone, so that we don't jinx things. I'll even make a deal: if nothing has happened by December 23rd, 12:00 pm, I'll make wisecracks with you all. But for now, I see this moment as a time of somber self-reflection.

I think now is a time to reflect on our selves, and to meditate on how we can improve ourselves and attain a greater peace, even if the next several hours were to be our last, and to think of reasons why God might find our civilization worthy to continue to advance unabated.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ It was a non-denominational, non-sectarian non-apocalypse.