# World didn't end
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 21, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749 "2012-12-21T16:17:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/1 "2012-12-21T16:17:37Z")
Damn. I had to get up and go to work this morning.
Frickin’ Mayans are worse than the weather wonks on Channel 2.
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/2 "2012-12-21T16:20:33Z")
Yeah, I was so hoping I didn’t have to do my taxes again this year. It’ll probably end a day after tax day when it finally ends.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/3 "2012-12-21T16:22:37Z")
**Clothahump** ’s Boss: “No, actually the world did end. This is Hell. And yes, you’re still working for me.”
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### Author:  [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/4 "2012-12-21T16:23:41Z")
And here I got good and drunk the night before so I’d look and feel my best when the world ended this morning. Bother.
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### Author:  [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/5 "2012-12-21T16:35:16Z")
This is the last day\*. It won’t be 12/22 in UTC-12 for another 18 1/2 hours. We’ve still got 3/4 of a day to go.
\*Pretending for the sake of discussion that we believe this nonsense.
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### Author:  [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/6 "2012-12-21T16:39:10Z")
Bummer, I was hoping.
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/7 "2012-12-21T16:40:01Z")
Yeah, it’s not over yet people!
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### Author:  [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/8 "2012-12-21T17:02:51Z")
I was kind of hoping for a bunch of Mesoamerican gods to climb up out of the earth and demand to know why no one’s given them any sacrifices for the last several hundred years. “Oh, so you only give a shit about us when we’re about to end the world, is that it?”
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/9 "2012-12-21T17:36:19Z")
Are you pitting the Mayans?
Or the fact that the world hasn’t ended as promised?
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/10 "2012-12-21T17:38:08Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#):
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> I was kind of hoping for a bunch of Mesoamerican gods to climb up out of the earth and demand to know why no one’s given them any sacrifices for the last several hundred years. ?"
_“I’ve got a little list, I’ve got a little list
Of society’s offenders who may well be underground
And who never would be missed, they never would be missed”_
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/11 "2012-12-21T17:39:12Z")
Turns out it was spherical. Who knew?
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/12 "2012-12-21T17:50:00Z")
Are we _rooting_ for the end of the world?
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### Author:  [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/13 "2012-12-21T17:53:34Z")
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Mayan #1: You wanna go for a beer?
Mayan #2: I’m working on this calendar, but I guess if I don’t finish it won’t be the end of the world.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/14 "2012-12-21T17:56:06Z")
Pfft, if the Mayan empire was still around, this’d be no big deal to them. The Mayan dollar stores would be full of 14 Baktun calendars with kittens or firemen or hot temple priestesses or whatnot, there’d be a few weeks where Mayans would absent-mindedly date personal checks with “13 Baktun” and inevitably there’d be many Mayans with broken resolutions to lose weight and sacrifice more Aztec prisoners.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/15 "2012-12-21T17:58:21Z")
I borrowed $10,000 from the mob to spend on hookers and blow. I told them I could pay them back on Saturday.
Uh oh.
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### Author:  [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/16 "2012-12-21T18:05:57Z")
Besides, if the Mayan’s were so great about predicting the future…how come they didn’t foresee the Spanish coming.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/17 "2012-12-21T18:11:20Z")
> [@Sparky812](#):
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> Besides, if the Mayan’s were so great about predicting the future…how come they didn’t foresee the Spanish coming.
No one expects…
Eh, you know the rest.
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### Author:  [@AHarris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHarris)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/18 "2012-12-21T18:12:44Z")
> [@Clothahump](#):
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> Damn. I had to get up and go to work this morning.
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> Frickin’ Mayans are worse than the weather wonks on Channel 2.
This is what you get for listening to the Mayans. Everyone knows that the programmers of unix determined that the world will end on January 19, 2038 at 3:14:08 AM.
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### Author:  [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/19 "2012-12-21T18:13:09Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#):
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> Are we _rooting_ for the end of the world?
I must confess that a part of me saw it as the only possible solution to a couple issues at work. Customers that really need firing basically.
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-didnt-end/644749/20 "2012-12-21T18:20:59Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> Are you pitting the Mayans?
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> Or the fact that the world hasn’t ended as promised?
No. He’s pitting watermelons for refusing to grow in a triangular shape.
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