# Tell us why your birth was a sign of the Apocalypse **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 9, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562 "2009-04-09T21:18:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562/41 "2009-04-11T00:37:56Z")
I was born on the anniversary of both the Great Fire of London of (wait for it) 1666, and the beginning of World War II. My birth was, of course, the _third_ great calamity of world history. Now, please pardon me while I go stir the Lake of Unquenchable Fire… ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562/42 "2009-04-11T05:00:09Z")
Mister ‘The Rhy -[_for I am darkness incarnate. I shall bring that which_]- mer’, I fear you may have missed my post. -[_Nazarene! Ten thousand curses be upon you! Your pain upon the cross was nothing against the agony of my Father!_]- Am I correct in ass -[_corpse of Chuck Norris as was made by my servant Bruce Lee. Now I shall control that broken Husk of a_]- uming that this is a simple over sight on your part? If you indeed have such information as you claimed in your OP please email me at nottheantiC@ΩℓώΞψŦ¥ß¿.net. PS. For your reference I have included some -[_innocent shall feel my vengence! Blood shall flow like_]- [unalt](http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0410092338a.jpg)[ered ph](http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0410092341.jpg)[otos](http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0224092357.jpg)of myself. For your reference of course -[mwuah-ha-ha-ha!]-. ETA: There is this birthmark on my neck. It is in a shape like ‘DCLXVI’. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562/43 "2009-04-11T05:06:22Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > The doctor didn’t know yet if I were male or female-but he DID know he wouldn’t have to slap me to get me breathing. Well, sometimes ya slap the baby to get it to start crying, and sometimes ya slap it to shut it up. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562/44 "2009-04-11T05:58:43Z")
Well, I was born nearly on Christmas, and the priest initially refused to baptize me. My father had to put a guilt trip on him to get him to do the job. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562/45 "2009-04-11T16:07:34Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > …PS. For your reference I have included some -[_innocent shall feel my vengence! Blood shall flow like_]- [unalt](http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0410092338a.jpg)[ered ph](http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0410092341.jpg)[otos](http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0224092357.jpg)of myself. For your reference of course -[mwuah-ha-ha-ha!]-… Pffft. Here’s my third-grade photo: [http://www.jesscail.com/darkness-full.jpg](http://www.jesscail.com/darkness-full.jpg) My classmates could be so cruel. So of course I killed and ate them. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562/46 "2009-04-11T23:13:44Z")
I ride a pony named Wildfire. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562/47 "2009-04-11T23:23:22Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > …email me at nottheantiC@ΩℓώΞψŦ¥ß¿.net. Is that one of those East European URLs? Punycode or whatever it is? > [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > [unalt](http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0410092338a.jpg)[ered ph](http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0410092341.jpg)[otos](http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0224092357.jpg) That’s evil. There’s a full-screen popunder behind at least one of those images. And it full-screens on a 1920x1200 monitor, too. Evil. PS. I tried that URL. IDNS resolved it, and then Something installed [TECO](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Editor_and_Corrector) on my Mac and set it as the default system text editor. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562/48 "2009-04-13T02:59:35Z")
I’m the Firstborn Son of parents named Mary and Joseph, and I was born in December. Isn’t that proof enough? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562/49 "2009-04-14T19:00:39Z")
Damn! I must be the AntiChrist! I brought the thread to an end! ---
**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:** [April 14, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562/50 "2009-04-14T19:04:12Z")
I can make plants drop dead just by walking through a room. Even dandelions wilt under my infernal gaze. I am clearly the Anti-Chrysanthemum. (And yes, I did really try and fail to grow dandelions once). ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562/51 "2009-04-14T19:16:42Z")
According to [Bernardino de Sahagun](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardino_de_Sahag%C3%BAn), my birthday falls within the “hollow days” in the Aztec calendar. Supposedly, the Aztecs believed that people born during those five days would grow up to be monsters and evildoers. There’s more, though. I was born in 1975. The last Aztec New Fire ceremony, which took place every 52 years, was in 1507. Had the Aztecs still been doing this ceremony, they would have done one in 1975. I was born in the days between one 52-year cycle and another. I must be extra evil and monstrous. > [@Malleus](#): > > I can make plants drop dead just by walking through a room. Even dandelions wilt under my infernal gaze. I have super houseplant-killing powers, too. I managed to kill a mint plant in a pot once. You’d believe I was the Antichrist if you were ever around when I’d been eating brussels sprouts the night before. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562/52 "2009-04-15T14:22:17Z")
I was born on a Friday the 13th, at 13:00 hours, weighed 13lbs (really), and was adopted when I was 13 months old. And I have a small rock or something in my shoe that’s bugging me. ---
**Author:** ![czarcaztic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@czarcaztic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/czarcaztic)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562/53 "2009-04-15T16:36:29Z")
I was born 7-29-51. 7+29=51=87 8+7=15 1+5=6 6 is the first numeral in 666 …or it might mean something else entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562/54 "2009-04-15T16:51:27Z")
I share a birthday (October 10) with Ed Wood! And it’s a fact I enjoy. All Hail Me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-why-your-birth-was-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/492562.md?page=2)