"2233 Days Until December 21, 2012!!!!" Topic

Yippeee!

I can't believe people really think a major catastrophe is expected then:
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If a couple of earthquakes, hurricanes and wars happen around that time, I wonder how many people will panic thinking that the rest of these dire prophecies will actually happen.

I think that would be a cool Sci-fi channel movie: the world panicking over astrology!

CC

Is this the next Y2K?

CC

Is this the next Y2K?

If it is, I hope its better than the last one.

Not a single zombie. Not even a 21st Century Marauding Cycle Bandit. All my hopes dashed.

Depressing. ;-)

I work for an insurance company. My department (Earthquake, flood, and wind coverage for large commercial properties) is being closed at the end of this year.

Word 'round the campfire holds that real reason for the closure is that the company president believes Armageddon is coming…

Ha!!!

CC

The Aztecs reckon that this cycle of the planet's existence ends in 2012.

And Mel Gibson appears to agree….

Nah, that's just when the magic in the world will be 'awakened' and the metahumans will come back out to play. Just hope your kid doesn't become an ork, choomba!

I can see it now….

"HURRY to the (insert name of department store or other retailer here) FINAL DAYS sale!! MILLIONS of items in stock at low, LOW prices!! Final days of the Final Days sale, because once we're gone, YOU'RE GONE!!

There'll always be someone out there trying to make that final buck.

LOL!!!

CC

y2 was a load of bollox!!!!

y2k was only a load of bollox because a bunch of people worked to make sure nothing went wrong by upgrading the "broken" systems.

The 2012 thing is humorous. I guess people like deadlines?

Too bad making funeral arrangements would be difficult if nobody is left to bury the dead. I bet I could make money designing and selling a self burial kit. The expensive concept would be a large rotating concrete cylinder buried in the earth with a coffin recess accessible. Jump in the coffin face down, pull the coffin closed with a lever, and the cylinder turns 180 degrees leaving you in a face up position. Or maybe I should go back to working on D&D traps..

I can remember reading about this when I was a kid in the 70's and figuring at the time how old I would be when the world ended.

Has anybody worked this calendar backwards to see what event triggered it?

Well as for me on New Year's Eve 2011, I'm going to fly to England, go into a pub and buy some salted peanuts and beer. Noe where did I put my towel?

I think that on December 20, 2012 I am going to drink like there is no tomorrow . . . and then wake up with the worst hangover in my life the next day!

CC

Wow, guys, I really admire your professional-grade thread hijacking skills. That was… breathtaking.

And now I want pizza, dammit!

I was bouncing on December 31st, 1999. As the hour approached I knew nothing would happen. Early reports from Christmas Island and New Zealand indicated everything was ok.

12 struck, I had a shot of Jaegermeister and a glass of champagne and looked forward to rousting 300 well-dressed obnoxious yuppies out of my bar so the real party could start.

Haven't we had this discussion a couple of times before? How many more times will the world end?

I'll try again.

Everything I learned about the end of the world, I learned from Alfred E. Neuman:

What? Me Worry?

Mark Twain:

Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

And Little Audrey as the car she was in went over the cliff.

She just laughed and laughed. She knew the car had air brakes.

There was more, but that will do.

JackWhite

I see it's time to start investing in canned food and shotguns. Or maybe I should sell them at inflated prices of course, you know for those people that make a run on the stores just before a disaster real or imagined hits.

Great. It's supposed to happen a few days before my birthday. (There's always something that ruins it….)

Ah, yes, the day the Mayan calendar 'resets'. The Mayan view of history is that it repeats every 5700 years or so. Since we are coming to the end of the 5th age, I'm not too worried about history repeating itself. Magic returning would be a really interesting thing to experience, though (crosses fingers, but with my luck I'd be a troll!).

I think the phrase "the world as we know it will end" applies here… Im willing to bet that something will happen, just not the whole biblical apocalypse rubbish.

London to a brick, if we make it that far, it will be the one day NOTHING happens.

The world doesn't end then. It's just the ending of the fifth world. The sixth world starts right up.

I am thinking of getting loans that are due on the 22nd!!!

CC

….."And I feel fine."-R.E.M.

Two thumbs up. Very nice.

The Aztecs reckon that this cycle of the planet's existence ends in 2012.
They should have concentrated on finding when THEY would ceased to exist.

1445 days now.

Well, some movie directors now hope to get some money out of this . . . before they themselves disappear in 2012:

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CC

Isn't that when Skynet goes online?

Nah. That was supposed to be back in August 29, 1997. :)

CC

Hey CC,

Have you seen this article:
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The Title says it all

Love it!

CC

"I think that would be a cool Sci-fi channel movie: the world panicking over astrology!"

I guess my 2006 prophecy on a film sorta came true then, right?

CC

Hmmm. . .

I always toyed with the idea of a short story for the ANALOG Probabilty Zero slot, whne the world is faced with sever problmes involving overpopulation and something needs to be done immediately. The leaders of the world, from the Pope to the mullahs to the US president ( Or equivalent) take a drastic action . . . As one person, they go on all media to explain that things will be all right, and that no-one should even contemplate for a minute committing suicide.

In the next week, sesning that things are worse than depicted/a conspiracy going on, about 25% of the worlds population panics and take their own lives, and the crisis is delayed long enough for more solutions to be found.

Ah, probably too realistic for the Prob Zero placing. :)

Believe it or not, it makes perfect sense and would make a GREAT short story!!!

CC

Thanks CC. Mind you, I think Gary Kilworth did a similar story "Krash" in the late lamented SCIENC FICTION AGE magazine, which ended on the image of hundreds of thousands of computer geeks starved to death hugging their laptiops in the wilds . . .

The death of SF AGE was attributed to webzines for short SF: There's revenge for you.:(

Cool trailer for the movie "2012":

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CC
PS. Now we only have 1371 days to paint our minis!!!

HURRY!!!

Join the survivor lottery NOW!!! :)

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And buy all the figures you can get a hold of between now and then, so you can ensure their survival too!

CC
TMP link

The world will not end on December 21, 2012, but the warranty on the world will.

Funny I was told the world did end, I just slept through it.

LOL. Maybe it did, and I also missed it.

So something else must be worrying these people. According to the first link in the thread, there are only 1208 days left for them.

CC

I like others was disappointed when the world didnt fall apart on Y2K..I had my Lemonade stand already outside my house to quench the thirst of all those parched Road Warriors..but not a single sale.

I had all my spiky football pads ready to go back for old y2k. I looked pretty silly as the only roaming pillaging warlord I can tell your. Wish I had run across SteveW's Lemonade Stand I could have used the drink.

I don't even plan to dress out for 2012. Fool me once….

LLC aka Ron

LOL

CC

Great!
Not only do I have to worry about 2012, and flesh eating robots from and earlier thread but now they will come at me in packs!

That's just GREAT! Thanks for making my day!

I bet you sneak in to your kids room in the middle of the night and scream BOO! too.

Yep. But I make sure they are in deep sleep when I do it. :)

CC
PS. By the way, now you only have 1196 days left!

LMAO!!!
Thanks for the count down