# This Week's Sign of the Impending Apocalypse **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 1999, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-sign-of-the-impending-apocalypse/10196 "1999-10-25T22:03:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![labradorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@labradorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labradorian)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-sign-of-the-impending-apocalypse/10196/21 "1999-10-26T20:53:00Z")
They advertise supermodels, but how do you know you ain’t gettin’ crack whore eggs? ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-sign-of-the-impending-apocalypse/10196/22 "1999-10-26T20:54:00Z")
Later, I remembered I’d seen that Sports Illustrated thingy. And it’s ACTUALLY called “This Week’s Sign the Apocalypse is Upon Us.” How’s that for being anal? My signs? Akiva Goldsman writes a GOOD script, unlike LOST IN SPACE, BATMAN & ROBIN… Another Carrot Top movie. Jerry Falwell meets with homosexuals… (Uh-oh!) Roseanne loses weight. The Texas Rangers beats the New York Yankees in the playoffs. * * * Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to relive it. Georges Santayana ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 1999, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-sign-of-the-impending-apocalypse/10196/23 "1999-10-27T07:33:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Another Carrot Top movie. Mr. Rilch worked on that movie (Chairman of the Board). He’s an electrician, if I haven’t mentioned it before. He said that, unlike many shtick comedians, Carrot Top (he learned his real name, but I don’t remember it, and he’s asleep) broke character between scenes. He also admitted, with no bitterness or panic, that he knew the clock was ticking, and if the film tanked (we knew the studio had no faith in it when it didn’t have a premiere), he was fully prepared to take time off and go back to standup, or find another line of work. A very mature person; I wish more performers were as lacking in attitude. * * * Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together. —Red Green ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 1999, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-sign-of-the-impending-apocalypse/10196/24 "1999-10-28T05:36:00Z")
Carrot Top’s real name is Scott Thompson - but he’s no Buddy Cole. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 1999, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-sign-of-the-impending-apocalypse/10196/25 "1999-10-27T20:59:00Z")
Come back, Carrot Top. All is forgiven… * * * Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to relive it. Georges Santayana ---
**Author:** ![funneefarmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 1999, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-sign-of-the-impending-apocalypse/10196/26 "1999-10-27T22:52:00Z")
Courtney Cox Arquette Hey Satan what kind of deal has Arquette got with you? ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 1999, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-sign-of-the-impending-apocalypse/10196/27 "1999-10-30T09:28:00Z")
I got my IB test scores back. I got a 4 in Mathematics! That has got to be a sign. * * * It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either. —_Mark Twain_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 1999, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-sign-of-the-impending-apocalypse/10196/28 "1999-10-30T20:01:00Z")
A Sign of Immanent Doom: S. Dakota being mysteriously bombed with golf pros. ``` :D ``` * * * YO-HO, ME HEARTIES! ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR THE MUSICAL BATTLE AT SEA! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 1999, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-sign-of-the-impending-apocalypse/10196/29 "1999-10-30T20:03:00Z")
And no one will shout “FORE” first. 😃😃😃😃 * * * YO-HO, ME HEARTIES! ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR THE MUSICAL BATTLE AT SEA! ---
**Author:** ![Jorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@Jorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jorge)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 1999, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-sign-of-the-impending-apocalypse/10196/30 "1999-10-30T20:27:00Z")
Well, the last couple weeks, anyway… 1. The press waxes over the days of yore, when Presidents were _presidential_, while referring to **Reagan** ; 2. Martha Stewart gets a billion bucks in an IPO; 3. Pat Buchanan getting together to find common space with the NYC Socialist Party leader [“The lion shall lay down with the lamb” in a perverse way]; [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-sign-of-the-impending-apocalypse/10196.md?page=1)