# Goodby my friends **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045 "2017-09-23T14:36:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045/61 "2017-09-25T13:24:27Z")
Let’s all be more patient, folks. The world doesn’t end until it ends. Apocalypse has been rescheduled for October 15. Wait for it! [Doomsday Conspiracy Theory: David Meade Reschedules Apocalypse for October After World Didn’t End](http://www.newsweek.com/doomsday-conspiracy-theory-david-meade-apocalypse-october-670253) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045/62 "2017-09-25T14:03:57Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Looks like B. Willis, et al, blowed the damn thing up. I always thought it would be Arnold who would destroy the world. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045/63 "2017-09-25T14:08:11Z")
It’s not a too-muh! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045/64 "2017-09-25T14:14:48Z")
> [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](#): > > DANGIT! I had on my clean underwear and everything! Now I gotta go mow the lawn! If I wanted to be really evil, I’d convince the rubes that the world is ending on April 14, so when it sinks in that the world didn’t end they’ll have to scramble to do their taxes. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045/65 "2017-09-25T14:17:17Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I always thought it would be Arnold who would destroy the world. All be bock. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045/66 "2017-09-25T14:18:20Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > If I wanted to be really evil, I’d convince the rubes that the world is ending on April 14, so when it sinks in that the world didn’t end they’ll have to scramble to do their taxes. Ah, but if the world DID end on April 14, think of all the egg you’d have on your face. Guess I better buy up some egg stocks. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045/67 "2017-09-25T15:23:11Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > … we had joy, we had fun, we has seasons in the sun… > > (On seeing the thread title, and that the OP’s last name began with Jacks, this came to me.) Holy crap, what an obscure thing to pull out of your memory! I had forgotten about that song. Looking back, I can at least say that I had the good taste to recognize that that song, even back when it came out and I was in junior high school, was the worst piece of crap ever to grace Casey Kasem’s list. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045/68 "2017-09-25T20:11:54Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Let’s all be more patient, folks. The world doesn’t end until it ends. > > Apocalypse has been rescheduled for October 15. Wait for it! > > [Doomsday Conspiracy Theory: David Meade Reschedules Apocalypse for October After World Didn’t End](http://www.newsweek.com/doomsday-conspiracy-theory-david-meade-apocalypse-october-670253) Recalculating… In 20 days, lean fully forward at the waist. Your destination will be directly in front of you. Kiss it goodbye. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045/69 "2017-09-26T00:13:34Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Am I in Heaven? Or am I in Miami? You’re still in Sturgeon Bay. I’ve been to Miami, and, all things considered, I’d rather be in Wisconsin. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045/70 "2017-09-26T14:40:47Z")
> [@](#): > > On the 23rd day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places…Little Shop! Little Shop of Horrors! Just to be safe, don’t feed the plants. > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > The stars wait for me > Who knows where we shall meet again > If ever > But time > Keeps flowing like a river (on and on) > To the sea **burpo** , I am going to marry you someday. We just gotta put things on hold for a while, so I can figure out how this whole end-of-the-world dealie affects the paradigm. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045/71 "2017-09-26T16:22:46Z")
So it \*was \*another spiritual apocalypse. ---
**Author:** ![Srsly\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045/72 "2017-09-26T16:56:07Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Am I in Heaven? Or am I in Miami? No Iowa. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045/73 "2017-09-27T02:05:57Z")
> [@Srsly\_Dad](#): > > No Iowa. I only work in outer space. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045/74 "2017-09-27T16:00:38Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > You’re still in Sturgeon Bay. I’ve been to Miami, and, all things considered, I’d rather be in Wisconsin. I flew from LAX to Wisconsin, and within ten minutes I was standing in a park on a lake surrounded by lush green foliage and grass. I just drank in more green in that moment than I’d seen in the previous week. Now, come February in the upper midwest and that end of the world stuff sounds nice because there’s got to be some heat involved… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodby-my-friends/797045.md?page=3)