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Thursday, December 8. 2011

Whew!

In case you are worried, or if you were not planning to vote in next year's elections because the world is going to end anyway, guess what?

Mayans never predicted world to end in 2012: experts

Of the the approximately 15,000 registered glyphic texts found in different parts of what was then the Mayan empire, only two mention 2012, the Institute said.

"The Maya did not think about humanity, global warming or predict the poles would fuse together," said Alfonso Ladena, a professor from the Complutense University of Madrid. "We project our worries on them."

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What do you mean "whew"? Based on their predictions, I already emptied out my retirement fund and spent it all on cigars and partying.

#1 Bird Dog on 2011-12-08 18:28 (Reply)

Beat you to it. I blew it all on cigars and booze instead of putting it away in the first place.

#2 RonF on 2011-12-08 18:49 (Reply)

Ah crap - and I spent all that money on a survival chamber which, in case the Earth was rendered asunder, would be able to survive in space indefinitely.

#3 Tom Francis on 2011-12-08 20:03 (Reply)

What the prof said. Quel Suprise!

Saw a sign on a barbershop: Haircuts $12 til the end of time (Mayan calendar edition).

#4 Sam L. on 2011-12-08 20:48 (Reply)

My favorite cafe serves 'breakfast anytime'. Recommend steak & eggs in 1890 --big meal! Just don't flirt with the waitress --her dad will be waiting for you outside with a double-barrel 10 gauge and you'll have to marry her.

#4.1 buddy larsen on 2011-12-09 02:11 (Reply)

(stolen from Steven Wright, who says he is suicidally worried about his cholesterol)

#4.1.1 buddy larsen on 2011-12-09 08:28 (Reply)

Project our worries on them.

When we write about aliens, we seem to do much the same. Wasn't the recent one that they wouldn't like us because we had polluted our earth? It's like Chick Tracts for liberals.

#5 Assistant VIllage Idiot (Link) on 2011-12-08 21:56 (Reply)

We dodged a bullet there, didn't we?

#6 Jephnol (Link) on 2011-12-08 22:02 (Reply)

Depends upon what 'World will end in 2012' you mean.

Every time I hear our Lecturer in Chief bemoans and trumpets on some subject, I almost PRAY the Mayans are correct...

#7 Fred Zeppelin on 2011-12-09 07:16 (Reply)

--if youse reefering to our Commaunder-in-Cheep and Cheep Eggsuckytive Ossifier, Chicago's favorite sunk, Al "BragObama" Capon, I would advise youz if youz can't reexpectorate the man, at least respect the orifice.

#7.1 buddy larsen on 2011-12-09 08:11 (Reply)

Respect is earned, unless its Tina Turner, of course...

Got no issue with the Office, just the seat-holder is a neophite fly-weight in over his head...

#7.1.1 Fred Zeppelin on 2011-12-09 15:10 (Reply)

Actually the end will indeed be 2012 - the last date on my calendar is Dec 31 2012, which proves it! Almost exactly like the Mayan calendar stone on which the myth is predicated!

The calendar was an object to impress, and "ended" in 2012 because even as large as it was, that is all that would fit both legibly and at the end of one "Cycle" - rather comparable to a century today. This has been the view of most in the field (not absolute, but supportable) for a couplr of decades.

#8 John A on 2011-12-09 16:52 (Reply)

In fact, time did end the other day.
It seems that I was too busy surviving to notice.

#9 PacRim Jim (Link) on 2011-12-10 23:28 (Reply)

--LOL --the only way Time is different from a personal vehicle is that you can leave the vehicle in a garage for 75 years and the odometer won't move.

#9.1 buddy larsen on 2011-12-11 08:00 (Reply)

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