# Whatcha Doin' Next Week When the Rapture Comes? (May 21, 2011) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 13, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806 "2011-05-13T17:56:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/61 "2011-05-20T17:29:13Z")
[Dork Tower](http://www.dorktower.com/) has a nice approach. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/62 "2011-05-20T17:46:32Z")
If the rapturists are at the corner on my way home again today, I’m going to be very tempted to go up to them and say, “I’ll give you fifty bucks today if you will give me five hundred bucks on the May 22nd.” I’ll even offer to make it a stipulation that any money they give me go to the Red Cross. Somehow, though, I doubt any of them would take me up on it. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/63 "2011-05-20T17:51:11Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > Incidentally, I’m spending that night in Small Bar on Division Street in Chicago where they will present a face-off of 3 Floyds’ beers vs. Victory Brewing’s beers as part of the Chicago Craft Brew Week. Weird. An Indiana beer vs. a Philly beer in Chicago. Was A-B’s purchase of Goose Island that big of a hit to the local scene? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/64 "2011-05-20T17:53:28Z")
What channel is the rapture going to be on. I’ve been trying to find coverage. Who’s doing the play by play? ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/65 "2011-05-21T04:28:05Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > What channel is the rapture going to be on. I’ve been trying to find coverage. Who’s doing the play by play? This is what I want to know. Seriously, I hope someone, anyone, has an opportunity to video record a few of the believers at the moment of truth and posts it on YouTube. Please imaginary Jesus, make this happen. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/66 "2011-05-21T04:40:08Z")
If I don’t post after 6 pm tonight you know where I am. In the interim I bought a heap of seafood. I reckon with all those oysters and crabs I can bribe my way into anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/67 "2011-05-21T10:14:40Z")
And if you get taken up you’re leaving a load of rotten seafood for whoever winds up sorting out your affairs. I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/68 "2011-05-21T10:29:30Z")
But I am still here. Luckily the seafood is great. Now I have to talk my wife into eating a dozen oysters \ ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/69 "2011-05-22T01:00:19Z")
I got my cupcakes! Incidentally, the cupcake shop was giving free cupcakes to people with military ID, in honor of Armed Forces Day. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/70 "2011-05-22T01:23:48Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > What channel is the rapture going to be on. I’ve been trying to find coverage. Who’s doing the play by play? _**[The Rapture will not be televised.](http://www.gilscottheron.com/lyrevol.html)**_ You dig, brother? ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/71 "2011-05-22T04:26:29Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I cant wait for people to put vids of this up on youtube! I am back, and have awesome videos of the dragon car and something called the “Regurgitator” which was an entirely irresponsible homemade amusement park ride involving a jet engine. I do not have a video of the Fuck Bike in action, but I have photos, and on the wall behind the bike was an awesome video of the Fuck Bike in action, so there’s that. I’ll try to get these things up in a day or two. I’m going to bed. Nobody at the party disappeared, as far as I noticed. > [@](#): > > The Rapture will not be televised. Shouldn’t that be, “The Revelation will not be televised”? ---
**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:** [May 22, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806/72 "2011-05-22T04:50:33Z")
We were at a Thai restaurant in Kingston, Ontario, chatting in Esperanto, and no-one noticed. Evidently the Rapture _was_ English-only. I _will_ say that the Martello Towers scattered around Kingston harbour would make superb anti-zombie fortifications. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-doin-next-week-when-the-rapture-comes-may-21-2011/581806.md?page=3)