Hey, talk to the dead Mayans. It’s their thing.
I know a guy who now believes it because the government has said it won’t happen. :dubious:
Makes sense. The government lies 100% of the time.
Is this guy giving away all of his posessions?
I believe it is a continuation, a calendaric continuity, which is also the perpetuation of this epoch. I divine that many lives will maintain their current trajectories due to a sort of existential inertia. Overall a pretty standard thing.
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
Not that they’ve said anything to me about it.
We’re having an end-of-the-world lunch here at work Friday. I’ve been tasked with providing something on the order of a death by chocolate dessert. Any suggestions?
Hopefully the end won’t occur before lunch.
I think that depends on your time zone. 
No.
Well, I don’t think so. I do know a couple of people who are wierd enough to entertain the notion, but they wouldn’t say so to me.
Why? What is different about this particular day?
I made chocolate pots de cremefor a church brunch a while back, and they’re really good. It’s also quite amusing; watching people too polite to lick the bowls try to scrape very bit out with a teaspoon. I made some with Splenda, and you could hardly taste the nasty sweetner taste behind the chocolate. If you have a Trader Joe’s nearby that has the 72% Valrhona bars, those works really well.
No. I thought the idea the world would end on Friday was mostly just a joke, with maybe a few people getting suckered in by it.
I realize this is wildly off topic, but did you actually cook them in a water bath like that recipe recommends? I’d like to try to make that, but I don’t really know how to manage a water bath.
On topic, I don’t know anyone who actually believes it, but there are a few folks who make jokes often enough that I think they’re just a bit uneasy about the whole thing, more so than they’d admit.
For a water bath, set your ramekins in a roasting pan deep enough that you can add enough water to come up about half way up the sides of the ramekins. Easy peasy.
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Nice. Bookmarking that for later. Unfortunately I don’t have enough ramekins for this project.
My world can’t end on Friday the 21st, because that’s already booked for Thursday the 20th at 4PM Eastern Standard Time. That’s when the college releases my official first-term marks. 
I think my mom’s chiropractor does.
Not too much later, I hope…
I first heard about the Mayan thing from someone who seemed to fervently believe it.
Of course, he was very drunk at the time; in fact, he was so drunk that I was walking him home when he said it.
Yeah - chocolate fudge mousse. So easy an almost dead person could make it.
PM me if you want the recipe.
It’s a day God has chosen for this to happen for many of His children at once. Sort of a graduation ceremony for a particular class of God’s children who are now ready to life as a child of God should - with divine favor.
Well, I’d say there’s a 14% chance of this being true… 
Oh, you mean this Friday…?
no