We're deep into "dog bites man" news folks.

/Lets hope for a slow news day

Did too!!!

And I'm not going into work. So there.

This was already known.

Well, duh - it won't end until 12:59 AM EST tomorrow morning - aka 11:59 PM Dec 21, 2012 Central (the Mayan time zone)

This Mayan apocalypse twas set up by a master time traveler and promoter named John Cusack. He knew that '2012' DVD sales would be low and so he planted that calendar all those years ago. It was the most genius piece of marketing in history.

Make sure you drink exactly three beers and eat some peanuts today. And don't forget your towel.

Ugh, so I guess this is a hangover then.

Day ain't over yet.

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Day ain't over yet.

DAMN!!! Beat me to it.

Didn't the prophecy say that the world would end as we know it, not that the world would end?

I don't know abt you guys but all my Mayan friends are gone.

dj_spanmaster: Make sure you drink exactly three beers and eat some peanuts today. And don't forget your towel.

I always thought we were meant to lie down, put a bag over our head.

Gunny Highway: It was the most genius piece of marketing in history

Have you seen Victoria's Secret commercials?

I thought I read somewhere that the end is supposed to come at 11:11am ET?

Could be pulling that out of my bungholio, but I'm not the first to be making shiat up.

I wonder what the reaction will be from the paranoid survival nuts now that their bunker and 300 cans of baked beans was a waste of money?

AgentBang: I thought I read somewhere that the end is supposed to come at 11:11am ET?

Could be pulling that out of my bungholio, but I'm not the first to be making shiat up.

6:10 am EST was the Solstice. I would think if it was going to happen, it would have been then.

thecpt: Gunny Highway: It was the most genius piece of marketing in history

Have you seen Victoria's Secret commercials?

....touche.

Your move Cusack.

AgentBang: I thought I read somewhere that the end is supposed to come at 11:11am ET?

Could be pulling that out of my bungholio, but I'm not the first to be making shiat up.

It was 11:11 am UTC which is 6:11am ET.

Don't worry about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-C. Shulz

janzee: I don't know abt you guys but all my Mayan friends are gone.

Mayan are still here...

"They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead."

ongbok: Didn't the prophecy say that the world would end as we know it, not that the world would end?

wouldn't that be every day?  or moment for that matter.

/ too much heraclitus and process philosophy as a child
// from, no man ever steps in the same river twice, to no man ever steps in the same river once.

ongbok: AgentBang: I thought I read somewhere that the end is supposed to come at 11:11am ET?

Could be pulling that out of my bungholio, but I'm not the first to be making shiat up.

It was 11:11 am UTC which is 6:11am ET.


Were the Mayan's big on UTC and the time zone stuff?

Should I not have maxed out all of my credit cards at strip clubs the last two nights?

dj_spanmaster: Make sure you drink exactly three beers and eat some peanuts today. And don't forget your towel.

Good advice, what say you regarding general panic?

So the next end of the world is when now?

Amos Quito: ongbok: AgentBang: I thought I read somewhere that the end is supposed to come at 11:11am ET?

Could be pulling that out of my bungholio, but I'm not the first to be making shiat up.

It was 11:11 am UTC which is 6:11am ET.


Were the Mayan's big on UTC and the time zone stuff?

No, but we are. That is why world wide events happening at a specific time are usually reported in UTC or GMT as a default.

Oh here we go:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/07/comet-c2012-s1-earth_n_1945 46 2.html

I've heard about this awesome doodle, and I click that link right there. I see no doodle. Just a regular Google logo.

Am I missing something?

durbnpoisn: I've heard about this awesome doodle, and I click that link right there. I see no doodle. Just a regular Google logo.

Am I missing something?

We've been played, apparently.

And I, for one, am not amused.

The world as we knew it ended when obamer was elected.

Well, I don't know what the rest of you did to piss off the almighty but I was raptured this morning, first thing.

We need another Jonestown to thin the ranks of these loonies.

That's just what the new regime wants you to think. Move along.

durbnpoisn: I've heard about this awesome doodle, and I click that link right there. I see no doodle. Just a regular Google logo.

Am I missing something?

Yes. Yes you are.

chi_tino: We need another Jonestown to thin the ranks of these loonies.

You're right

BTW , have you tried the Kool-aid? Have a glass.

So, dressing in a hocky mask and leather jacket, arming myself with a sawed off shotgun and bow
and arrow, jumping in my souped-up death car, and tearing though the wasteland looking for gasoline WAS all for nothing? Shoot, I feel stupid.

AgentBang: I thought I read somewhere that the end is supposed to come at 11:11am ET?

Could be pulling that out of my bungholio, but I'm not the first to be making shiat up.

You heard right~some guy on tv said it. LMBO @ "Bungholio" =)  I always thought if it did happen, it would be 11:59 p.m. on the 21st.

They say that our conversion of the Mayan calendar could be off by as much as a month or more.

I'm not going to change my lucky underwear just yet.

pute kisses like a man: ongbok: Didn't the prophecy say that the world would end as we know it, not that the world would end?

wouldn't that be every day?  or moment for that matter.

/ too much heraclitus and process philosophy as a child
// from, no man ever steps in the same river twice, to no man ever steps in the same river once.

I am fairly sure there was no prophecy in the first place, so it wouldn't say anything - it just happens their calender is doing something similar to ours when going from 999AD to 1000AD (or 9999AD to 10000AD), but the nature of the system used to measure times means there is no way to add the digit, so a new level of counting would have needed to be invented if it was still in use - so the equivalent of if we said it was the 3rd millenium, 1st century, 2nd decade, 3rd year to mean 2012, then at 9999AD we would have to invent a word for each 10000 years (decamillenium?) to deal with that, and if we hadn't created that word yet that wouldn't constitute a prophecy that the world would end on 31st December 9999AD

A friend of mine said it was supposed to end 7 months ago because the Mayans didn't know to account for leap years. I don't know, myself.

The article has a nutty quote from Nobel winner Rigaberta Menchu. Check out her wiki. The Nobel folks seem to have dropped the ball on that one. Though I don't mean to minimize the war.

Bad news, Berty: the Mayans ain't talking.