# What will happen on Dec 21st, 2012? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 29, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871 "2008-11-29T02:21:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/81 "2008-12-01T07:58:31Z")
I’ll be watching _It’s a Wonderful Life_ for the forty-ninth annual viewing. Uncle Charlie will be 74. Two week countdown to my 50th birthday. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/82 "2008-12-01T12:54:51Z")
YouTube will be flooded with videos of eggs being balanced on end. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/83 "2008-12-01T14:55:34Z")
Our Feline Overlords will finally step to the fore and take over! ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/84 "2008-12-01T15:29:00Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Og willing, Mr. 'addi and I will be celebrating our 38th wedding anniversary. Well, it will be only 23 for the Mrs and I, but we’ll be celebrating hard Si ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/85 "2008-12-01T16:06:43Z")
Are we due a near Earth asteroid visit roundabout that time? ---
**Author:** ![CrowJane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a183cd/32.png) [@CrowJane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrowJane)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/86 "2008-12-01T16:07:42Z")
It’ll be my 36th birthday; and someone will point out (as they do every year) that, being the shortest and darkest day of the year, the 21st really suits both my stature and personality. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/87 "2008-12-01T16:12:51Z")
> [@drewbert](#): > > I don’t know, but on the 22nd I’ll be pointing and laughing. There will also be slapping. ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/88 "2012-12-21T21:31:40Z")
> [@ZenBeam](#): > > Someone will bump this thread? Just over four years ago, I put into my calendar that I would return to this thread on this very day and though the modern means of zombification, would prove **ZenBeam** to be correct. Also, happy birthday to **CrowJane** , wherever you may have gone. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/89 "2012-12-21T21:35:55Z")
_slow clap_ ---
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/90 "2012-12-21T22:16:13Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > I’m sure I’ll have a nice bowel movement. Well, did you?!?! ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/91 "2012-12-21T22:52:05Z")
I’m a fuckin’ prophet! ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871/92 "2012-12-21T23:33:28Z")
Just checking in since I responded to this thread four years ago. Looks like we got the last laugh on those Mayan bastards! To think that suddenly, out of the blue the world would ju [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-on-dec-21st-2012/474871.md?page=4)