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Title: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Rastus on December 02, 2012, 08:20:43 AM
OK.  What are you going to be doing 21-DEC-12?  Oooh...look at how ominous those 1's and 2's look when put in the date like that.  Maybe that's telling us December 11, 2112 is the real end, eh?

All right guys, MB said something on his podcast about maybe having the chat board going.  The "end of the world" is a Friday night, I'm game for that.  Chips, salsa, a little egg nog (eewwww, what a mix) maybe some pumpkin pie, a Milky Way bar, whatever until our internet connection dies along with the world as we know it.

Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Rastus on December 02, 2012, 08:28:33 AM
Dang Marshal, I posted this in the wrong thread.  Would you be kind enough to move it where it belongs?  Maybe under podcasts or the cafe?
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 02, 2012, 10:00:34 AM
I could not vote.
"Bring it on was", not an option , neither was,"It can't come soon enough".
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Timothy on December 02, 2012, 10:44:26 AM
With technological achievement from Latin countries being few and far between, I suspect the Mayans would be hard pressed to predict the next morning without hacking the heads off of a few of their neighbors!  I seriously doubt they could predict the end of all things!

I'm planning on nothing at all besides the winter solstice and a cold beer on a Friday night!
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: TAB on December 02, 2012, 12:08:33 PM
Getting laid.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Solus on December 02, 2012, 12:17:33 PM
An interesting side note is that Dec.  20th or 21st, it varies, is the day of the year that women talk the least.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: fightingquaker13 on December 02, 2012, 12:23:47 PM
Going fishing and keeping a snook. Like old Far Side cartoon of the fisherman and the mushroom cloud. "No size restrictions and screw the limit"! ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: red364 on December 02, 2012, 12:25:51 PM
An interesting side note is that Dec.  20th or 21st, it varies, is the day of the year that women talk the least.

Dare I ask?   Why the silence then?
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: PegLeg45 on December 02, 2012, 12:41:29 PM
It's also Winter Solstice.........
Heck of a thing if "scientists" finally figure out after all these years that instead of a doomsday warning, it was just the last page of their version of the Farmer's Almanac.

 ;)    :D   ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D



Oh, run for the hills....... run for the hills, I say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: MikeBjerum on December 02, 2012, 12:50:54 PM
I don't know any Mayans, so it will just be business as usual around our house.

Ooooops, the 22nd is anniversary, and company (in-laws) invading on the 22nd, so I guess it will be "take the wife out night."
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 02, 2012, 12:55:48 PM
Dare I ask?   Why the silence then?

It's the shortest day of the year.     ;D

It's also Winter Solstice.........
Heck of a thing if "scientists" finally figure out after all these years that instead of a doomsday warning, it was just the last page of their version of the Farmer's Almanac.

 ;)    :D   ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

Oh, run for the hills....... run for the hills, I say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Yes, based on our own calendar the world ends Dec 31,
every year.
But one can hope.

With technological achievement from Latin countries being few and far between, I suspect the Mayans would be hard pressed to predict the next morning without hacking the heads off of a few of their neighbors!  I seriously doubt they could predict the end of all things!

I'm planning on nothing at all besides the winter solstice and a cold beer on a Friday night!

Never underestimate .
I could not find a photo of the actual stone carving , admittedly I didn't spend long looking , but this has been recognized since at least the 60's.

http://www.earthmatrix.com/serie26/pakal.htm


Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: kmitch200 on December 02, 2012, 01:00:57 PM
Heck of a thing if "scientists" finally figure out after all these years that instead of a doomsday warning, it was just the last page of their version of the Farmer's Almanac.
 :D   ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

You're saying I might actually have to make payments after the 21st??
Oh sh!t.


Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Timothy on December 02, 2012, 01:25:10 PM
Never underestimate .
I could not find a photo of the actual stone carving , admittedly I didn't spend long looking , but this has been recognized since at least the 60's.

http://www.earthmatrix.com/serie26/pakal.htm


Hey! I did that smoking peyote once!   ;D

And remember, hippies are from the sixties pal!
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Big Frank on December 02, 2012, 02:51:03 PM
Every calander has an end date. I'm not worried about it.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: fightingquaker13 on December 02, 2012, 03:01:45 PM
I don't know any Mayans, so it will just be business as usual around our house.

Ooooops, the 22nd is anniversary, and company (in-laws) invading on the 22nd, so I guess it will be "take the wife out night."
My homeowners employs about 50 of them to do the landscaping. If they stop showing up to work, then I'll get nervous. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Rastus on December 02, 2012, 04:51:27 PM
You're saying I might actually have to make payments after the 21st??
Oh sh!t.

Now that's scary.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: robheath on December 02, 2012, 05:49:56 PM
I think the guy who carved the calender got to the end and said." Damn I should have picked a bigger stone"
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: fightingquaker13 on December 02, 2012, 06:34:48 PM
I think the guy who carved the calender got to the end and said." Damn I should have picked a bigger stone"

Or, screw it, its Friday, I'm off for the weekend. However, I have noted that Southern Mexico and Guatemala are making a killing off this hosting hippy New Age tours. Good for them. ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Big Frank on December 02, 2012, 07:25:41 PM
I found some cartoons about it.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: robheath on December 02, 2012, 08:19:03 PM
I found some cartoons about it.

I told you so!!
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: jp1 on December 02, 2012, 08:33:43 PM
I don’t believe in the Mayan calendar thing. However I do think it is possible for God to reset things, we have traveled so far off the path that I do think it is possible for it all to be scrapped and start over again.

If that would be the decision, I would tend to agree with him. The only way to prep for either event is to get on your knees.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 02, 2012, 09:37:03 PM
If it were just the Mayan calendar the reaction would be a universal "They ran out of rock, duh.".
However, that is not the case, the date coincides with calculations based on the Pyramid dimensions which have matched other notable dates in history, as well as estimates based on the writings of Michel de Nostredame .
There have been other confirmations as well from more obscure sources such as the cryptologist who has been working on the "Bible code".
Oddly enough, he claims that the coded messages he finds are the same regardless of the language used.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: fightingquaker13 on December 02, 2012, 09:49:53 PM
So I should buy the AK AND a new upper, rather than investing in a case or two ammo? ;)
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 02, 2012, 11:03:30 PM
Get both.
Do it on the "No payment till January" plan.  ;D

Gotterdammerung !


Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: santahog on December 02, 2012, 11:19:38 PM
I'll likely either be asleep or in the bathroom..
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: sledgemeister on December 03, 2012, 12:28:41 AM
Either having, recovering from an operation,  :(

yayy for me
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: mortdooley on December 03, 2012, 07:35:54 AM
 I'll get up and watch Fox Business while I drink my coffee just like most Friday mornings.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: lhprop1 on December 03, 2012, 09:44:07 AM
I don't know any Mayans, so it will just be business as usual around our house.

It's also Winter Solstice.........
Heck of a thing if "scientists" finally figure out after all these years that instead of a doomsday warning, it was just the last page of their version of the Farmer's Almanac.

I do happen to know a Mayan.  The wife and I just got back from Belize last week and the bartender at our hotel is Mayan.  I was talking to him about it and he said exactly what PegLeg said. 
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 03, 2012, 10:31:00 AM
With a 2,000 year edition they probably thought they would have time to hammer out a Volume II.
But, as I posted earlier, one can always hope.
I can see the future,and personally I don't want to be there.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Jrlobo on December 03, 2012, 10:38:52 AM
The twelvers, like Ahmadinejad of Iran, believe 2012 is the year for total chaos on Earth (the Earth to them is not the sphere as we know it) prompting the reurn of the Mahdi who will punish all of us infidels to no end. Sorta coincides with the Mayan calendar? Of course, if they are wrong, then they can still be twelvers and just start thinking of 3012 instead. Now, if the Mayans are correct, think of the good side: Obama won't be re-inaugurated in January...unless HE is the Mahdi!
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 03, 2012, 11:06:35 AM
The twelvers, like Ahmadinejad of Iran, believe 2012 is the year for total chaos on Earth (the Earth to them is not the sphere as we know it) prompting the reurn of the Mahdi who will punish all of us infidels to no end. Sorta coincides with the Mayan calendar? Of course, if they are wrong, then they can still be twelvers and just start thinking of 3012 instead. Now, if the Mayans are correct, think of the good side: Obama won't be re-inaugurated in January...unless HE is the Mahdi!

That's only if the "Revelations" version comes to pass with the 1,000 years of getting what they deserve.
I prefer the idea of the Wagnerian vision of one big spasm of blood , thunder, and destruction.
It's actually likely if Israel nukes Iran.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: fatbaldguy on December 03, 2012, 04:43:03 PM
http://www.space.com/13885-world-2012-mayan-planet-nibiru-nasa.html

The only apocalypse will be man made.  Can you say world wide economic collapse when the dollar tanks.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Magoo541 on December 03, 2012, 09:17:06 PM
Why would I pay any attention to a culture that failed to predict its own demise?

 ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 03, 2012, 11:17:12 PM
Why would I pay any attention to a culture that failed to predict its own demise?

 ;D

Who says they failed ?
They may have just decided it wasn't important enough for the calender.
For that matter, there are an awful lot of Mayans still around.
That means the culture didn't die, it adapted to changed circumstances.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: PegLeg45 on December 03, 2012, 11:20:12 PM
Who says they failed ?
They may have just decided it wasn't important enough for the calender.
For that matter, there are an awful lot of Mayans still around.
That means the culture didn't die, it adapted to changed circumstances.

Or the village chisel-sharpener died before his apprentice's training was complete.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: billt on December 04, 2012, 08:23:51 AM
I suppose I'll ask the next Jehovah Witness that rings my bell when the next, "End Of The World" is coming.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 04, 2012, 08:45:37 AM
I suppose I'll ask the next Jehovah Witness that rings my bell when the next, "End Of The World" is coming.


You miss the important part Bill.
It's "the end of the world as we know it"
Not necessarily a bad thing.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: lhprop1 on December 04, 2012, 09:06:51 AM
It's "the end of the world as we know it"

Good tune.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 04, 2012, 10:04:50 AM
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Rastus on December 06, 2012, 07:44:18 PM
Either having, recovering from an operation,  :(

yayy for me

Operation?  What operation? 

Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Ulmus on December 06, 2012, 08:25:12 PM
I couldn't find the "Rinse and Repeat" choioce.  Maybe it's next to the mousse.   :D

How about having a shot of tequilla for the cause.  Bloody Mary maybe?
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: fightingquaker13 on December 06, 2012, 09:01:39 PM
I couldn't find the "Rinse and Repeat" choioce.  Maybe it's next to the mousse.   :D

How about having a shot of tequilla for the cause.  Bloody Mary maybe?
Are you sh@tting me Pyle? If is the end of the world I'm springing for the good stuff, Hien antique single barrel cognac at about $550 a bottle. I'll put it on the Visa. ;D
Title: HAM RADIO --- What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Rastus on December 07, 2012, 02:50:22 AM
OK...even the HAM radio guys are getting in on this.  If will be a great QSL card to have....if it ever comes, of course.  ;D
KE5JDJ

12/20/2012 | N0D Doomsday The End of the World!

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Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: kmitch200 on December 07, 2012, 12:02:19 PM
Are you sh@tting me Pyle? If is the end of the world I'm springing for the good stuff, Hien antique single barrel cognac at about $550 a bottle. I'll put it on the Visa. ;D

If its the EOTW I'm grabbing something even more exclusive and I"m not even going to bother with the Visa.  ;)

Remember.....

You're saying I might actually have to make payments after the 21st??
Oh sh!t.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: 2HOW on December 07, 2012, 01:49:18 PM
First of all the calendar dont end, it just switches to another later calender. They have found the next calender and had several TV specials on it, so dont get your panties in a wad.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Solus on December 07, 2012, 02:01:51 PM
First of all the calendar dont end, it just switches to another later calender. They have found the next calender and had several TV specials on it, so dont get your panties in a wad.

Well, I hope this new one has better pin-ups   ;D ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 07, 2012, 06:06:34 PM
First of all the calendar dont end, it just switches to another later calender. They have found the next calender and had several TV specials on it, so dont get your panties in a wad.

Damn, and I had so much hope.    :-\

Operation?  What operation? 

Hemorrhoids, He gets a new World and a new arse hole on the same day .
I know that was an awful thing to post .
I've been biting my tongue since Rastus posted.
If it weren't Phil or Sledge I would have resisted, but they're Australian, they'll understand.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Rastus on December 08, 2012, 07:47:31 AM
.....
Hemorrhoids, He gets a new World and a new arse hole on the same day .
I know that was an awful thing to post .
I've been biting my tongue since Rastus posted.
If it weren't Phil or Sledge I would have resisted, but they're Australian, they'll understand.   ;D

Awww, man...Sledge.  Dang...I hate to hear that.  

I know you've heard all of the crude jokes and horror stories.

Forget the jokes, they are harmless....it's the stories that should bother you.  

You might want write a note on your tool or a tie ribbon with a note on your jewels just to make sure you have them after the operation....you know that's happened before....I'm just sayin'.....
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Rastus on December 08, 2012, 04:47:16 PM
Sledge?  You there?

Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 08, 2012, 05:28:51 PM
He doesn't have time for this thread.
He's still tracking Osama. 
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: PegLeg45 on December 08, 2012, 05:33:20 PM
He doesn't have time for this thread.
He's still tracking Osama. 

 ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D
Title: END OF DAYS -- What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Rastus on December 16, 2012, 11:53:56 AM
OK...the specious Mayan end of days is nearly upon us.  Surely you guys have firmed up your plans for the big day by now, right?

I'll be home packing for a trip the next day.   

And after that I'll be looking forward to New Year price drops in storage foods and other prepper supplies that will lose part of their market after the Mayan end of days passes.
 

Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 16, 2012, 12:09:12 PM
OK...the specious Mayan end of days is nearly upon us.  Surely you guys have firmed up your plans for the big day by now, right?

I'll be home packing for a trip the next day.   

And after that I'll be looking forward to New Year price drops in storage foods and other prepper supplies that will lose part of their market after the Mayan end of days passes.

You can't say that until AFTER the 21st.
I figured I better get that said now.
If you're wrong we won't have the opportunity to take you to task for it after the fact.    ;D
Title: Now Zero Days -- Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Rastus on December 16, 2012, 12:17:32 PM
As you know it was designed to tweak!  Not everyone will pick up on the word "specious".

I also hope to be using my callsign with my N0D (Now Zero Days) Doomsday Radio Station # 0856 over the ham airwaves.

DOOMSDAY CLOCK LINK BELOW:
http://countdown.onlineclock.net/countdowns/doomsday/ (http://countdown.onlineclock.net/countdowns/doomsday/)

Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: jaybet on December 17, 2012, 12:09:13 AM
That night I"ll be entertaining...sitting with my guitar singing songs with a glass of bourbon by my side. So if the cosmic fabric rips, bring it on.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 17, 2012, 08:08:14 AM
Hey Jay, will you be doing this one ?



Might want to practice it   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: jaybet on December 17, 2012, 11:02:02 AM
Can't see well enough to read the words that fast.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 17, 2012, 11:11:13 AM
Maybe this will help.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rem/its+the+end+of+the+world+as+we+know+it_10240320.html

Songwriters: BERRY, BILL / BUCK, PETER / MILLS, MICHAEL / STIPE, MICHAEL

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane
And Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs.
Feed it off an aux speak, grunt
No strength the ladder starts to clatter with the fear, fight down height.
Wire in a fire, representing seven games with a government for hire and a combat site.
Left of West and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck.
Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop.
Look at that low playing! Fine then.
Uh oh, overflow, population, common food, but it'll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed.
Dummy with the rapture and the reverent in the right - right.
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light,
Feeling pretty psyched.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o'clock - TV hour.
Don't get caught in foreign towers.
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.
Locking in uniforming, book burning, blood letting.
Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a votive.
Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
This means no fear - cavalier.
Renegade, steer clear!
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
And I decline.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide.
Mountains sit in a line
Leonard Bernstein.
Leonid Breshnev, Lester Bangs and Lenny Bruce.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right?
Right.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine... fine...

(It's time I had some time alone,
It's time I had some time alone,
It's time I had some time alone
I feel fine...)


I can make the print bigger if you need it old man  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Timothy on December 17, 2012, 11:28:00 AM
Don't even want to try to analyze those ridiculous lyrics..

<<< Not an REM fan<<<<   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: DGF on December 17, 2012, 01:51:38 PM
My son-in-Law has ordered an eight pound WayGu standing Prime rib roast. We will, along with some other friends, be dining with my daughter and son-in-law. Since it is Armageddon there probably won't be any leftovers.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: PegLeg45 on December 18, 2012, 09:52:59 AM
Just got the local weather forecast for the remainder of time........  ;D  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Big Frank on December 18, 2012, 03:07:54 PM
I look on the bright side and consider it a warming trend.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Rastus on December 21, 2012, 10:19:11 AM
I heard tell this is a good time to pick up new age chicks.

Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 21, 2012, 10:23:18 AM
I guess we were all wrong.
Bitching about the crappy weather never even got mentioned.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: jaybet on December 21, 2012, 11:06:59 AM
Thanks to some comments from friends I'm still doing my Singing Santa routine tonight and will be performing my speciallly written song, "Defyin' the Mayans". It will be worthless to record, but if I can get a quick version together I'll post it within a few days.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Solus on December 21, 2012, 01:30:38 PM
Ok....I have a plan for this.

I plan to drink a 5th of Rum this evening.   Just think, if it is true, NO HANGOVER!!


actually, I don't think today will be the end because of the Mayan Calendar.  The Sports Illustrated Calendar runs out at the end of the month and I think it will be then
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Rastus on December 21, 2012, 06:46:32 PM
<snip>
actually, I don't think today will be the end because of the Mayan Calendar.  The Sports Illustrated Calendar runs out at the end of the month and I think it will be then

Good point.  You may have something there.   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: jcbdc on December 21, 2012, 07:14:17 PM
Dang, left behind again!!   ???
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 21, 2012, 07:30:52 PM
Any body who put serious thought into it knew it was just a case of "They ran out of rock".
It fell exactly on a solstice .
Not having access to atomic clocks and such "primitive" societies went by lunar cycles, 13 months of 28 days with no leap anything.
Dec 21st is the last solstice of the year. It is unlikely that world apocalypse would fall on that particular day, just like it is unlikely to occur on Dec 31st.

But it was fun while it lasted and some of the idiots actually took it serious.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Big Frank on December 21, 2012, 10:26:27 PM
We got a little snow for the solstice but not enough to shovel. We should get some more on Christmas.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: jaybet on December 22, 2012, 09:18:13 AM
The Mayan end-of-the-world has come true. We can't find a Mayan anywhere!
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 22, 2012, 09:33:54 AM
Try Yucatan.
Or East L.A.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: justbill on December 22, 2012, 03:56:16 PM
I was at work and played the first couple of minutes of The End by The Doors at 11:10am. A couple people chuckled, one looked at me like she was saying "What a weirdo" and another was clueless. 
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Big Frank on December 22, 2012, 04:01:10 PM
I don't feel dead but I'm starting to smell. Maybe I didn't make it.  ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Solus on December 22, 2012, 08:29:50 PM
Would we be able to tell the difference?  I've never spoken to someone who has  had the experience....all hearsay.
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Rastus on December 22, 2012, 08:41:01 PM
I don't feel dead but I'm starting to smell. Maybe I didn't make it.  ;D

That's you Jumbo?  I thought it was maybe Haz or Peg....
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: PegLeg45 on December 22, 2012, 09:14:12 PM
That's you Jumbo?  I thought it was maybe Haz or Peg....

I at least have 50% less foot odor than the average Joe.  8)    ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 22, 2012, 09:42:59 PM
I at least have 50% less foot odor than the average Joe.  8)    ;D

Your Social Security "asshole" makes up for it !   ;D

http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=21329.msg267264#msg267264
Actually the Mayans may have been right.
Can the world ever be the same after a news story like that  ?   ;D
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: Rastus on December 23, 2012, 03:45:54 AM
Tom, you forgot San Bernadino?

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/12/22/end-of-the-world-party-in-san-bernardino-turns-deadly (http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/12/22/end-of-the-world-party-in-san-bernardino-turns-deadly)

‘End Of The World’ Party In San Bernardino Turns Deadly
December 22, 2012 1:13 PM



SAN BERNARDINO (CBSLA.com) — Authorities Saturday continued to investigate the circumstances surrounding a fight at an “End of the World” party in San Bernardino that turned deadly.

A statement by the San Bernardino Police Department says as many as 100 people had attended the party at a home on 7th Street on Friday evening.
 
At some point during the party, a 29-year-old man was stabbed and police were called to the scene to investigate.

Upon arriving on scene, authorities say a shooting occurred nearby.

The shooting victim, identified as 20-year-old Felipe Jason Moreno, suffered fatal injuries. His 22-year-old cousin was also wounded in the shooting, authorities said.
 
“The reason for the shooting appears to have stemmed from a fight that had occurred at the party location,” the statement said.
 
The man, who was stabbed, is expected to survive.

Anyone with more information about the incident is asked to contact Detective John Munoz at (909) 384-5630 or Sergeant Gary Robertson at (909) 841-5361
Title: Re: What are you doing when the Mayan calendar ends?
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 23, 2012, 08:16:43 AM
"“The reason for the shooting appears to have stemmed from a fight that had occurred at the party location,” the statement said."

There's some brilliant detecting right there, Sherlock Holmes would be so proud .