# Well THAT'S just fucking great
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [October 31, 2001, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749 "2001-10-31T17:39:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/1 "2001-10-31T17:39:54Z")
This just in, the Pleides (Seven Sisters Constellation) will be at it’s ‘highest point ever’ in the sky. And according to ancient Aztecs…this would occur on the night that the World Ended.
GREAT.
Fucking GREAT. Thanks a lot Ancient Aztecs. I knew this would fucking happen RIGHT WHEN I lost this weight.
Looks like all that self improvement was for naught, and I never even got to go to Germany.
Fucking Aztecs and their fucking prophecy.
I guess it’s been fun.
jar
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### Author:  [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/2 "2001-10-31T17:44:47Z")
Y’know, if the fucking ancient aztecs were so fucking smart, how come ya don’t see any of 'em around anymore?
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### Author:  [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/3 "2001-10-31T17:46:32Z")
Oh, relax, **jarbaby.**
The whole thing’s been called off due to lack of interest.
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### Author:  [@tevya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tevya)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/4 "2001-10-31T17:48:50Z")
Might you be mixing this up with the ancient Aztec prediction that this would be the night the lights go out in Georgia?
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### Author:  [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/5 "2001-10-31T17:54:16Z")
Awww, come on **jarbaby** , all the Christians thought the world was ending on 01/01/00, (or was it 01/01/01…) and we’re still around! The world ain’t ending. Go to Germany. Eat sausages. 🙂
\*Disclaimer: I know not _all_ the Christians thought the world was ending…I’m making a point.
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### Author:  [@k.os](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k.os)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/6 "2001-10-31T18:00:28Z")
Well, according to the Mayan calendar, the world will end in december 2012, so you still have time to do all those fun things, and to enjoy your weight loss!
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/7 "2001-10-31T18:03:09Z")
Well, according to my calendar, the world will end January 31, 2002 (the last 31 days will apparently be much smaller than the previous 365). Either that, or I’ll need to buy a new calendar.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/8 "2001-10-31T18:16:49Z")
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> **The fifth and final sun is known as Four Movement and is ruled by Nanahuatzin. This era came into being when the god of the age threw himself into a fire to become the sun. However “at first he was motionless, and so the other gods sacrificed their blood to provide him with the energy for his celestial movement.” People were created when Quetzalcoatl journeyed to the underworld to recover the remains of humans from the previous suns. On his way back, he was forced into a battle with the Death Lord, and the bones broke. Upon returning the realm of gods, he had the earth goddess Cihuacoatl grind the bones into meal. Finally, he sprinkled the remains with blood from his penis to create a new race of humans. The fifth sun will come to an end when the sun no longer receives enough blood to continue his course, and the world will be destroyed by earthquakes.**
The real problem, **jarbabyj** , is not that the Tianquiztli (Pleiades) are too high, but that they have not been receiving their requisite blood sacrifice for lo these 480 years. If we had only been cutting the living hearts out of thousands of captives each year, this situation wouldn’t have arisen. But it’s a bit late for that now.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/9 "2001-10-31T18:24:57Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Colibri \*
> \*\* If we had only been cutting the living hearts out of thousands of captives each year, this situation wouldn’t have arisen. But it’s a bit late for that now. \*\*
Well, we still have like 7 hours. Let’s get cracking, people!
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### Author:  [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/10 "2001-10-31T18:33:01Z")
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> Might you be mixing this up with the ancient Aztec prediction that this would be the night the lights go out in Georgia?
I thought the ancient Aztec prediction was that this would be the night Chicago died.
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### Author:  [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/11 "2001-10-31T18:33:51Z")
I’m tired of the world pretending to end all the time and then just keeping on going. It’s like having to sit through _The Brothers McMullen_ all over again.
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### Author:  [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/12 "2001-10-31T18:47:40Z")
Well, you gotta respect people who have hallucinatory enemas. Or were those the Maya?
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### Author:  [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/13 "2001-10-31T18:52:38Z")
If it helps, according to the Mayans, we’ve got another 11 years.
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### Author:  [@Sweet\_Sota\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Sota_Girl)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/14 "2001-10-31T19:18:40Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Munch \*
> \*\*Well, according to my calendar, the world will end January 31, 2002 (the last 31 days will apparently be much smaller than the previous 365). Either that, or I’ll need to buy a new calendar. \*\*
This is my _favorite_ one so far… heehee
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/15 "2001-10-31T19:27:22Z")
The Pleiades are high, the moon is full, and it’s Hallowe’en - that’s enough signs for me. Good bye, everybody. It’s been nice knowing all of you. (At least I don’t have to agonize about getting a career now. :D)
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### Author:  [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/16 "2001-10-31T19:35:52Z")
No, **jar** , it just means that you’re going to eat too much German food, and drink too much German wine tonight, and wake up _wishing_ the world was over. 😃
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### Author:  [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/17 "2001-10-31T19:45:48Z")
what’s new?
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### Author:  [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/18 "2001-10-31T19:51:40Z")
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> _Originally posted by **Jodi** _
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> > [@](#):
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> > Might you be mixing this up with the ancient Aztec prediction that this would be the night the lights go out in Georgia?
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> I thought the ancient Aztec prediction was that this would be the night Chicago died.
Oh, I’d always understood it to be when they saw the lights go out on Broadway. Wasn’t that supposed to happen in 2017?
Esprix
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### Author:  [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/19 "2001-10-31T22:13:11Z")
Well I think it’s great. Frankly, this whole world thing hasn’t worked out all that well. People are constantly blowing each other up, passing diseases, saying mean spirited things, hating each other for stupid reasons, going to work at jobs they hate, not going to work anywhere and feeling useless, wondering if when they die they’ll go to heaven or just rot, turning too much land into parking lots, pretending to know all the answers, cutting me off in traffic, stealing from each other, eating too much, eating too little, wearing stupid fashions, watching stupid shows, hiding the remote, and complaining too much. \<–Look Irony! (Or is it hypocrisy?)
So I for one will go outside with a fine root beer, look up at the stars, and cheer the end on!
In the event that the end fails to materialize, will any of you come visit me at whatever mental ward my neigbors send me to?
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### Author:  [@Joyfulgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joyfulgirl)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-thats-just-fucking-great/90749/20 "2001-10-31T23:40:37Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Blackclaw \*
> \*\*In the event that the end fails to materialize, will any of you come visit me at whatever mental ward my neigbors send me to? \*\*
Sure, as long as I can have your ice cream when I get there. You’re not going to eat those mashed potatos, are you? Saaayy, nice straight-jacket! Can I try it on? Look, padded walls!
And if the world is ending soon, no need to give those kids all my candy. Nosiree, gotta keep up my strength so I can watch the fireworks. Hey! You with the Snickers bar! Give that back!
[sup]Only kidding. We’re giving out crappy candy this year, so I wouldn’t want it anyway.[/sup]
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