# End of the world today! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697 "2008-06-12T15:34:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/1 "2008-06-12T15:34:15Z")
Hey-ho, another [nutter](http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/article.aspx?cp-documentID=8569202), this time predicting that the world ends today. By nuclear holocaust, if you please. Honestly, I don’t know where these whackjobs keep popping up from. You’d think they’d have twigged by… Wait, WTF? OMG! Look out, itad qt4rq r/A’C 093560928-8-09\*\_)(\* ljhg ljh ---
**Author:** ![Pithy\_Moniker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Pithy\_Moniker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithy_Moniker)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/2 "2008-06-12T15:56:40Z")
Damn. I wish I’d put off cutting the grass. ---
**Author:** ![kittenlm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ce7236/32.png) [@kittenlm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenlm)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/3 "2008-06-12T16:17:59Z")
I forgot that was today! My sister is a cop and the town she works in has a Yahweh compound. She decided to drive around it the other day to check it out but got a call just as she arrived so she never got a chance to see it. I guess she’ll never get to see it now because the world is ending today. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/4 "2008-06-12T16:19:42Z")
gotta finish my book ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/5 "2008-06-12T16:25:07Z")
Nuclear holocaust, you say? Well great! I just happened to have a few extra [W78](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W78) in my new desk that I wasn’t quite sure what to do with. Tripler Um, I believe you have my stapler. . . and my Minuteman III. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/6 "2008-06-12T16:25:15Z")
Don’t panic, it’s already tomorrow everywhere east of Shanghai 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/7 "2008-06-12T16:35:45Z")
Damn! Why did I waste money on new ink cartridges for my printer? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/8 "2008-06-12T16:41:13Z")
Does this mean Prehistoric Animals Day is cancelled? Or that we’ll all qualify now? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/9 "2008-06-12T16:51:34Z")
Boy, is my credit card going to get a workout. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/10 "2008-06-12T16:59:25Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] Does this mean Prehistoric Animals Day is cancelled? Or that we’ll all qualify now? [/QUOTE] When it happens, I believe we will all be post historic creatures. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/11 "2008-06-12T17:05:38Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] Does this mean Prehistoric Animals Day is cancelled? Or that we’ll all qualify now? [/QUOTE] Wouldn’t we be posthistoric, though? (Damn, beaten to the punch!) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/12 "2008-06-12T17:16:57Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] Don’t panic, it’s already tomorrow everywhere east of Shanghai 😉 [/QUOTE] I haven’t heard anything from China in the past few hours… ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/13 "2008-06-12T17:27:54Z")
I’m talking to my GF in China currently so rest assured, the world is safe. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/14 "2008-06-12T17:48:50Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] I’m talking to my GF in China currently so rest assured, the world is safe. [/QUOTE] …for now! ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/15 "2008-06-12T17:52:43Z")
I **just** paid my bills! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/16 "2008-06-12T18:01:36Z")
Awww, I was going to go out and grab lunch. Do you think I have time to walk the dog first? ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/17 "2008-06-12T18:21:18Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] OMG! Look out, itad qt4rq r/A’C 093560928-8-09\*\_)(\* ljhg ljh [/QUOTE] Or, as we might say twenty years ago: NO CARRIER ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/18 "2008-06-12T22:15:19Z")
The sun rose here this morning (Friday 13 June - an ominous date) as usual. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/19 "2008-06-12T22:34:34Z")
Abilene resident here. The House of Yahweh is our own local, uh, “non-mainstream religious organization,” so we get to see all the happenings up close and personal. All of the church members take his last name and some variation of his first, so every once in a while you run into a “Hawkins” working some job in town or another. There was funny article in the paper yesterday about one such Hawkins (partial quote): > [@](#): > > Russell Jones opened the front door of his Abilene apartment today to find a freshly placed life and auto insurance brochure hanging from the doorknob. > > But wait, Jones, thought, didn’t the insurance agent who delivered it - Yibniyah Hawkins - know that the world was ending Thursday? > > After all, Hawkins’ address on T&P Lane (according to the Texas Department of Insurance) is owned by House of Yahweh founder Yisrayl Hawkins. The same Yisrayl Hawkins who predicted the world will end Thursday in a nuclear holocaust. Heh. I saw Yisrael Hawkins’ attorney on his criminal case at the courthouse today and wanted to ask him if he’d made sure he’d been paid up front, but I didn’t get the chance to. If I see him tommorrow I’ll be sure and ask him what happened with the whole world-ending thing. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697/20 "2008-06-12T22:38:17Z")
I haven’t missed it again, have I? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/end-of-the-world-today/452697.md?page=2)