8 inches: I've bought Smith and Wesson stock because of the Apocalypse nutjobs - figure a few of them might start stocking up. Up 60% in less than 2 months.


/SWHC

WTF?!? Are they planning on shooting The Four Horsemen?

2012 is another of the many taxes on stupid people.

So Maya is the name of a really successful prostitute then.....

I will sacrifice myself on the alter of Katy Perry's boobs before the end of the world.

Buy Low, Sell Apocalypse.

a fool and his money soon cross the galactic plane and are obliterated in a collision with planet x.

I'm pretty sure that Judaism and its crappy offshoots are longer cons.

The Mayan calendar will do the same thing ours does... flip over and keep going. This is a non-issue. Please stop talking about it.

Okay... because people who believe the apocalypse is coming are definitely planning a vacation and not stocking up on canned foods and ammo.

How does this make any sense?

Copan in Honduras is beautiful. I have been there several times. I highly recommend this hotel:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Casa-Rosada-Hotel/157869937563122

owned by a former co-worker and friend. Copan Ruinas is a wonder little village.

Disagrees...

Sorry, subby. But it's going to be hard to top marriage..

And in 100 years, they'll be flocking to Canada. In Red Barchettas.

Thought they just found some Myan ruins in Georgia. I'll just drive down there instead.

"Maya region to profit from 2012 tourism" in
what is likely the LONGEST CON ever.
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Sorry Subby but the Christians got that covered.
(ok, so the jews may have been running it longer but the catholics have a hell of a lot better ROI)

desertfool: Copan in Honduras is beautiful. I have been there several times. I highly recommend this hotel:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Casa-Rosada-Hotel/157869937563122

owned by a former co-worker and friend. Copan Ruinas is a wonder little village.

Very much this. Tikal was like the New York of Mayan cities because of the size and metropolitan aspects, and Copan is like the Paris. The art, architecture, and hyrogliphs are amazing. The clearest I've seen in any Mayan city.

Joke is on us (new window) See #10. The long count calendar may have run out decades ago anyway.

"(Gerardo) Aldana contends that the calculations we've used to match up the Maya calendar to our modern reckoning could be off by as much as 50 to 100 years."

It may have already happened and this is the last episode of Lost for the whole planet.

doglover: TheOther: 8 inches: I've bought Smith and Wesson stock because of the Apocalypse nutjobs - figure a few of them might start stocking up. Up 60% in less than 2 months.


/SWHC

WTF?!? Are they planning on shooting The Four Horsemen?

I would. I mean think about it, if there are 4 horsemen for real then there must be an afterlife and if there's an afterlife you'll be in the VIP super elite group of people who actually put a few rounds into intangible ideas like Famine, Pestilence, and War.

I mean we can send a billion trillion or even quadrillion sacks of grain to Africa and never touch famine, let alone shoot that farker.

Or we could nuke it. No starving people == no famine.

I feel for these people as probably do the residents of Burkittsville, Maryland.

Back in the 1970s, I ran an occult bookstore in Blue Jay, California. But mind you, although it was an occult bookstore, I didn't believe in that crap (Well, most of it to be honest). At that time, the New Age ('sewage') Movement was just getting off the ground. For some reason we were in some undeclared competition with Sedona, Arizona to be the crazy capital of the world. Most of it was originally due to a high school kid's hoax and an unfortunate tragedy.

For years we were inundated with true believers. We had Druids, Satanists, Moonies, Hare Krishnas, The Children of God, and just about every other collection of scumbags that ever made a top ten list for being bizarre and/or evil. They were like cockroaches. Weird became as common as eggs and toast for breakfast.

One thing though: The crazies spend like there's no tomorrow.

doglover: TheOther: 8 inches: I've bought Smith and Wesson stock because of the Apocalypse nutjobs - figure a few of them might start stocking up. Up 60% in less than 2 months.


/SWHC

WTF?!? Are they planning on shooting The Four Horsemen?

I would. I mean think about it, if there are 4 horsemen for real then there must be an afterlife and if there's an afterlife you'll be in the VIP super elite group of people who actually put a few rounds into intangible ideas like Famine, Pestilence, and War.

I mean we can send a billion trillion or even quadrillion sacks of grain to Africa and never touch famine, let alone shoot that farker.

Hi Grant Morrison, it's a real pleasure to meet you.

Been a BIG FAN of your work since Animal Man all those years ago and I think you're comics' most prolific writer and probably the best way comics can connect with the mainstream. Keep up your great work.

Batman Inc? Awesome.

This is a con I saw in The Sting Part 2... so nobody knows about it!

Somacandra: Having been to the Yucutan more than once, I would highly recommend participating in this con. Tulum and Chitchen Itza alone are worth it. And the cenotes are place of immense preternatural powerreally cool to see.

Because, no, they are not "places of power" unless you are an ancient Mayan, or that backward.

TheOther: WTF?!? Are they planning on shooting The Four Horsemen?

Lister: I'm going out like I came in -- screaming and kicking.
Rimmer: You can't whack death on the head!
Lister: If he comes near me I'm gonna rip his nipples off!!!

I'm still hoping to wake up on Dec 22nd in Shadowrun

rebelyell2006: I'm pretty sure that Judaism and its crappy offshoots are longer cons.

It's really the same game, pick something old and impressive and claim it was totally your people that did it. Worked for a lot of the actual Jerusalem sites, not so well for the pyramids once people started actually looking at 'em.

A popular variant is to take an extinct religion responsible for doing something impressive and claim that you're part of it, even though the last actual adherent died half a millenium back and no one even cared to preserve the records until the 1800s. Druids and a couple people claiming to be Mayans and so on.

Good ways to make money, for sure.

//And I guess in some cases people claiming to follow the old norse religions, though I'm pretty sure that's actually intended as a joke 99.999% of the time.

Every FARKer needs to learn to sing this by the morning of December 22^nd, 2012.

(Yes, you FARKettes, too.)

We could battle it out at FARK Parties, like this. :-)

I saw Apocalypto. The Mayans didn't seem all that smart.

Spoon over Marin: My calendar ran out five days ago. I'm not freaking out, yet.
Good on South America to get those tourism dollars, though.

You've gotta be farking kidding.

/tips his hat to the Mayans

Definitely a scam article. You havent been able to walk on that period in almost a decade, but its used as a selling point.

What? Where?

/oblig

HSA: Definitely a scam article. You havent been able to walk on that period in almost a decade, but its used as a selling point.

Coulda sworn I wrote pyramid. Chicken Pizza.

skinink: I will sacrifice myself on the alter of Katy Perry's boobs before the end of the world.

Plenty of room on that altar.

I've lived in the country that has the most Mayans in it for awhile, gone to several of the ruins, and talking to some of the scholars there. From what I can tell, what they know is that Mayans thought of time as cyclical, where as we think of it as linear. It's not the end of times, it's just the start of a new cycle. What nobody can tell for certain is what the Mayans actually believed at the end of the cycle. The Spanish were very good at destroying every trace of writings that the Mayans and Aztecs wrote (probably the only thing the Spanish can do effectively really) and all we have are things like the Popol Vuh and a few other scraps that were saved. They also managed to kill off anyone who could really interpret it, so we'll probably never know. What i'm getting at is that the whole world ending thing is total B.S. and likely not what the Mayans believed in.

As for the ruins, if you do go, Copan in Honduras is amazing. (The hieroglyphs there are the clearest) there Yaxah and Quirigua in Guatemala are also really cool, and smaller with less tourists. Tikal is overrun with tourists. Sadly the only ruins I have seen in Mexico are Teotihuacan (not Mayan) but still really cool. It's huge, and very easy to spend a day there. (Right outside Mexico City for those who don't know.)

Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras could really use the cash though, so i'm glad the crazies are there spending it. I would wait until 2013 when it all calms down though.