The world is supposed to end!!!!

[hemet dennis]

Well I had to send out notes to all my friends saying

Marry Xmas. I would have bought you something but I thought the world was going to end so I spent all my money on booze and women. Sorry have a good new year.

 

[PaulaSB12]

Well that still means I am spending my time at the end of the world at disney!

 

[canesisters]

 

[cowcreekgeek]

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Ahh ... now I understand why all my birds were attempting to migrate to the various ruins of the Mayans ... I thought they were just already gettin' tired of all this snow ~'-)

 

[chickened]

I predict the government will study why the Mayans were wrong and provide grant money for the study before 12/21 2013

 

[chickened]

 

[cowcreekgeek]

I predict the government will study why the Mayans were wrong and provide grant money for the study before 12/21 2013

Ah, yes ... but not prior to sending to committee, convened in some distant and tropical region, so as to appropriate moneys for studies, so as to determine the need for further research into the matter ~'-)

 

[cassie]

I predict the government will study why the Mayans were wrong and provide grant money for the study before 12/21 2013

The Mayans weren't wrong. The Mayans never said the world would end when their calendar did. Neither did any government or legitimate scientist. If any study should be done, it is one that explores the reasons why so many people believe the world will end on any given date, and are willing to risk their life savings that it will. I personally can remember at least three times in recent memory when the world absolutely, positively, no doubt about it, was supposed to end. It didn't.

 

[Chicken Tamer]

People asked the Mayans that are still alive about this, and they said that it meant they needed a new calender...

 

[cowcreekgeek]

People asked the Mayans that are still alive about this, and they said that it meant they needed a new calender...

If the 'Long Count' began at 7.13.0.0.0?
That'd be 1,101,600 days, or one new calendar every ...
3018.0821917808219178082191780822 years *
*assuming this computer handles floating point equations properly

Clear evidence that the base 20 banks of the Mayans' day
were even more stingy w/ their own free calendars than mine is
(One per customer, per each of our own slightly less accurate Gregorian Years ~'-)