Actually, no. They believed the *calendar *would shut down and reboot. Nothing more. Just as ours shuts down and reboots at the start of each month, when we suddenly go from day 30 or 31 to day 1. Their calendar simply had a really, really long iterative sequence.
2012 - It’s a disaster!!!
Just chiming in to mention that Chiwetel Ejiofor is one of those actors I’d pay to watch read the phone book. He’s very good at doing intense.
Too Early!
Only if you’re Troy McClure.
You know what would be fun? A alternate history movie where the Mayan civilization would have survived to this day. The movie would be about computer programmers racing against the clock to make Mayan computers 2012 compliant.
Instead of running on ones and zeroes, presumably Mayan computers would run on jaguars and feathered birds.
This thread is evidence that you can post anything in the Pit and get more than 50 responses. 
And if you thought being asked to pay interests on your suddenly-backdated-to- 1901 loan was a problem, wait till you have to pay mortgages retrodated to the beginning of the fourth world (for anyone curious, that would be September 6, 3114 BC).
This is more serious than I thought. According to the “Cool Cars” calendar I picked up at my local Goodyear, the world is going to end on December 31, 2009!
Well, now it is.
No, NOW it is. 
pFfft.
I rather enjoyed it, actually. It’s fun to get lost in the fantasy.
I’m a prophet.
So what is going to happen in 2012, anyway?
President Palin; Vice President Bachmann?
Hmm, maybe the Mayans *were *onto something after all.
It is not going to be the END of the world…but we may be in for big problems.
I read this book about a year ago, and it scared the holy heck out of me. I hope he is wrong, but I can usually smell bullshit and I smelled none from this guy.
Barack Obama will be re-elected and reveal his true form and begin his reign of terror. You thought his lack of birth certificate was because he was born in another country? No! It’s because he was born on another planet!!!
From the movies, I already knew enough not to go to Tokyo. Now I have to stay off Earth entirely?
I think you mean hatched. Or possibly chewed through his mother’s carapace.