# End of the Earth Postponed
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 20, 2010, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762 "2010-10-20T11:29:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762/1 "2010-10-20T11:29:59Z")
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> It’s a good news/bad news situation for believers in the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The good news is that the Mayan “Long Count” calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension, the world may not end along with it). The bad news for prophecy believers? If the calendar doesn’t end in December 2012, no one knows when it actually will - or if it has already.
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### Author:  [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762/2 "2010-10-20T11:46:26Z")
That’s excellent news. I should have time to pay off the house now.
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### Author:  [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762/3 "2010-10-20T13:12:32Z")
God damn it. Would people please make up their minds about this so I know exactly when to run up my credit cards?
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762/4 "2010-10-20T13:52:14Z")
Every calendar I have ends December 31 of THIS YEAR! OMG the end is approaching fast.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762/5 "2010-10-20T13:55:37Z")
What am I supposed to do with all this paella?
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762/6 "2010-10-20T15:46:17Z")
The end of the world has already happened. How else do you explain dogs and cats living together and all the mass hysteria?
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762/7 "2010-10-20T16:29:13Z")
This is almost as bad as the New Software Rollout at my job that has been delayed like clockwork for the last 7 years. Now they’re swearing it’s coming, ferreals this time, in March. Yeah, I’ll believe it when I get to work and have no idea how to do my job.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762/8 "2010-10-20T16:31:57Z")
I can’t wait to tell all the Mayans I know.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762/9 "2010-10-20T16:55:19Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#):
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> The end of the world has already happened. How else do you explain dogs and cats living together and all the mass hysteria?
Tea Party rallies.
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### Author:  [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762/10 "2010-10-20T19:53:12Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#):
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> This is almost as bad as the New Software Rollout at my job that has been delayed like clockwork for the last 7 years. Now they’re swearing it’s coming, ferreals this time, in March. Yeah, I’ll believe it when I get to work and have no idea how to do my job.
Your job entails you working on Duke Nukem Forever?
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### Author:  [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762/11 "2010-10-20T21:37:17Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> What am I supposed to do with all this paella?
be right there
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### Author:  [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762/12 "2010-10-20T22:05:57Z")
But the world came to an end several times in the 19th century and also in 1981 and 1982 and in 2000. I think it’s tired of coming to an end without anyone noticing and by now it’s giving up.
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-earth-postponed/557762/13 "2010-10-20T22:20:56Z")
> [@dhkendall](#):
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> Your job entails you working on Duke Nukem Forever?
It’s a good gig. But I do get tired of the 16 color EGA graphics and the clunky 386 machines we have to use to run the damned program. 😃