# My calendar ends December 31, 2009! Eek! Goodbye world! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796 "2009-10-22T23:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/1 "2009-10-22T23:31:49Z")
I thought we had another two years to play around before the Mayan calendar ended and the apocalypse began. I figured the party was just starting. And then I got the shock of my life when I skimmed ahead in my own calendar at home and found it ended in two months!! And all the calendars at work too! Well, at least I haven’t paid off my credit card so I can stick it tp the Man one final time. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/2 "2009-10-22T23:53:42Z")
Omigod! I have a magnet calendar on my fridge from a local business I frequent. Its calendar ends in December 2008! The world is already gone!!! ---
**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:** [October 23, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/3 "2009-10-23T00:38:33Z")
I have a tea-towel with a calendar that ended in December 1975. The world ended a long time ago. We’re just waiting for the paperwork to be finished. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/4 "2009-10-23T00:47:44Z")
You stole this from me, Boyo Jim. Thieving Bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/5 "2009-10-23T01:40:28Z")
I’m still not sure what a golf clap is, but judging from the contexts in which “_golf clap_” is posted, you get a golf clap. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/6 "2009-10-23T02:35:36Z")
I’m really confused! My wall calender ends December 31, 2009, but my pocket calender ends December 31, 2010! Even worse, the calender on my erasable scheduler ends on November 7. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/7 "2009-10-23T09:33:13Z")
Horrors! I have a calendar here above my desk for 1959. Worse yet, I’ve been using it all year, and it seems to work fine. We appear to have somehow gone backwards in time 50 years, and are reliving time. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/8 "2009-10-23T15:13:57Z")
Well, I paged through my Google Calendar until 2013 when I got bored and stopped. Does this mean when adherents to all other false calendars have gone all that will be left is Google Calendar users? This is my kind of Apocalypse! All Praise to the [Google](http://pics.livejournal.com/jfboyd/pic/0023dt2s)!! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/9 "2009-10-23T15:27:12Z")
Anyone else remember when most calendars actually went through January? Just to give you a chance in case you were too busy to buy a new calendar or something. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/10 "2009-10-23T15:47:30Z")
According to my wall calender, the world ends December 31st, 2009. According to my hockey schedule calender, the world ends April 10th, 2010(I’m sure Maple Leaf fans are lokking forward to that day) ---
**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:** [October 23, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/11 "2009-10-23T15:50:15Z")
> [@Little\_Bird](#): > > Well, I paged through my Google Calendar until 2013 when I got bored and stopped. Does this mean when adherents to all other false calendars have gone all that will be left is Google Calendar users? This is my kind of Apocalypse! All Praise to the [Google](http://pics.livejournal.com/jfboyd/pic/0023dt2s)!! Isn’t that cartoon kind of a disproof of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem? ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/12 "2009-10-23T18:31:50Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > Horrors! I have a calendar here above my desk for 1959. Worse yet, I’ve been using it all year, and it seems to work fine. > > We appear to have somehow gone backwards in time 50 years, and are reliving time. You know, this explains … everything. Damn well everything. After that post, **everything** makes sense now. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/13 "2009-10-23T19:53:14Z")
Can I borrow ten bucks? I’m good for it, I promise. Really. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/14 "2009-10-24T05:25:42Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I’m still not sure what a golf clap is, but judging from the contexts in which “_golf clap_” is posted, you get a golf clap. See [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_clap) for a succinct explanation, and [this video](http://footage.shutterstock.com/video.html?id=530626) for a muted clip. Also note that, online, it can be a sign of faint but real praise, especially in the context of a well executed, but not-so-hilarious joke. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-calendar-ends-december-31-2009-eek-goodbye-world/514796/15 "2009-10-24T05:57:41Z")
Unfortunately, since YK 2000 my calendar got a virus that killed it. On the upside, I haven’t aged a bit in almost 9 years!