# The End of the World

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-the-world/205789>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 6, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-the-world/205789 "2003-10-06T02:01:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Oktberfest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@Oktberfest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oktberfest)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-the-world/205789/1 "2003-10-06T02:01:46Z")

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If both the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs make it to the World Series, will the world end right then or when one the teams wins?

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**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-the-world/205789/2 "2003-10-06T03:25:18Z")

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How can either team win? Has anyone removed that 58-year old curse on the Cubs?

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-the-world/205789/3 "2003-10-06T03:25:44Z")

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The General Questions forum is for questions with factual answers. I’ll move this thread to MPSIMS.

bibliophage  
moderator GQ

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**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-the-world/205789/4 "2003-10-06T03:46:55Z")

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The world will end in the 9th inning of the 7th game just as the game winning homerun is on its way out of the park, but just before it gets called a homerun.

This idea, I should acknowledge, comes from St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Bryan Burwell.

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These are not your father’s Cubs.

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**Author:** ![Etherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Etherman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Etherman)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-the-world/205789/5 "2003-10-06T03:52:51Z")

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Clearly an experiment is called for here. I am willing to chance it and find out by trial and error.

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**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-the-world/205789/6 "2003-10-06T04:08:06Z")

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Aren’t the Cubs appearing in a World Series one of the signs of the apocalypse?

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**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-the-world/205789/7 "2003-10-06T06:19:11Z")

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Ok, we’re talking baseball here. I will claim ignorance and slip back into the void.

I just saw **The End of the World by Oktoberfest** and the associations went wild.

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**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-the-world/205789/8 "2003-10-06T06:52:18Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by j\_sum1 \*  
> … I just saw **The End of the World by Oktoberfest** and the associations went wild.

So, we’re all going to drown in a gigantic vat of German beer?

[WC Fields]

Oh death, where is thy sting?

[/WC Fields]

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**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-the-world/205789/9 "2003-10-06T07:46:00Z")

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I feel fine…