Somehow, standing in line for this just doesn’t do it for me.
So the world ends tomorrow, May 21st, so some people say. What will you do?
Will our east Asia and European readers please let us know how it’s going as the time marches across the face of the earth. Open thread –
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“Daryl M says:
May 21, 2011 at 4:27 pm
For my last supper, I would want a huge rare filet with massive prawns and lobster tails covered with melted cheese. In your face vegans!”
I had not one but TWO nice steaks for dinner… A filet and a NY strip.
As usual, Doonesbury has this covered with humor. Go to: http://www.doonesbury.com/strip
[continuing after I forgot and hit “Tab”…..]
Re Doonesbury, click “Previous” until you get back to Monday, then advance to the present.
IanM
My doctor called me today.
He said “I’ve got some good news and some bad news.
Which do you want to hear first?”
I said ‘give me the good news’.
He told me that I had 24 hours to live.
I said ‘that’s terrible, what’s the bad news?
“I’ve been trying to get a hold of you since yesterday”
Anyone claiming to know when the rapture will happen, has either not read or not understood Jesus declarations:
“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[a] but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
Matthew 24:36-37 NIV
“So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Matthew 24:26-27 NIV
climatebeagle says:
May 21, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Earthquake here at 7:04pm, which would be 6:04pm without daylight saving ….
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc71573330.html#details
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Didn’t feel a thing, 13 miles from the epicenter but, you never know – out of a damp squib, a mighty oak can grow, or something like that.
It’s all (not) happening around here. Could drive down to the pastor’s house in 10 minutes from here for an update on my impending demise. I’ll more likely have an early night.
… and Tom in Texas, the one I heard (from a resident actually) was that if you ever get diagnosed with cancer and have six months to live, move to Savannah, Georgia. You’ll still die in six months, but it will seem like a lot longer.
Pamela,
Glad you enjoyed the CD. The same group also did one of American gospel songs. It includes an arrangement of “Amazing Grace”. Long story, but that hymn was the anthem of the Puritans who ended the world wide slave trade.
http://www.amazon.com/American-Angels-Songs-Redemption-Glory/dp/B0001ADB4Q/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1306036136&sr=1-3
The song is powerful (it’s played at all the police funerals, etc.), but knowing the history makes it all that much more so. It’s sort of personal with me. An ancestor, John Punchard Jewett was the publisher in Boston who published Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Enjoy!
Steamboat Jack (Jon Jewett’s evil twin.)
All we got was another Iceland Volcano tee shirt.
Harold has a lot of backpeddling to do, and a bunch of nosy reporters to fight off.
The doomsayers maintain their perfect record, …..
Pure coincidence, but earthquakes started at 6 pm under Grímsvötn and the volcanic plume was seen at 7 pm. See http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes/atlantic/
BUT, we are all here, n’est pas?
Llama Dung
… and now for something completely different:
The rise of the ancient Inca Empire is being credited to an
increase in the availability of llama dung as a fertilizer
that, together with an increase in temperatures in
Peru and the Andes, promoted the growing of maize.
According to a study published in archeological review Antiquity,
“Llama droppings provided the basis for the growth of Inca society.”
The Antiquity authors also noted, “Some 1,800 years after they
first moved from hunter-gathering to agriculture, around 1100AD,
a bout of prolonged warmer weather allowed the civilisation
to really flourish, leading to the building of large stone settlements
like Ollaytaytambo and Machu Picchu.”
It helped the clear out some glacier fields, allowing the overland
transportation of goods through the mountains and, incidentally,
promoted the propagation of llamas. This would have tended
to increase the llama population and generate even more llama dung.
See:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13439093
Actually, the Rapture occured on Mars.
They only missed it by one !
See:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20110504a/Fig2_PIA13989_navcam_SolB2585-RIGHT_br.jpg
Well, it appears as if we were saved by a very unusual set of circumstances.
Global warming suddenly kicked in and added several hundred degrees at the same moment that the hole in the ozone layer got large enough to spew the heat outward at the incoming planet from the Sumerian folklore that materialized out of nowhere. The heat pushed it slightly off balance, and Nibiru missed us by a country mile.
Meanwhile the aliens on the way to blast us with their futuristic weapons as foretold by Dr. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and apparently honorary AGW climatologist, didn’t pay attention to their sensors due to the latest media blitz about the Schwarzenegger scandal and the Kahn resignation from the IMF, and the ships were destroyed. As a result, their power core fell into the atmosphere and reformed the ozone layer while dropping global temperatures to normal.
…So, I just wrote that in about a minute, do I qualify to be a pro-AGW scientist yet? Or was that too believable?
Since the world ended yesterday, and we do not feel the difference, there can be only one logical conclusion: we are all in heaven already!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13489792
Third time lucky??????????
Camping is nowhere to be found; perhaps he’s changed his first initial to D.? Or maybe he was Taken (along with the other 143,999 Elect). That’s so few we’d hardly notice, after all …
The End Was Nigh! Break out into Rapturous applause. ;O)
Oh ye of little faith! The Rapture actually did happen, in Tampa Florida right around 2:30 P.M. Unfortunately for Boston Bruin fans it happened at the St Pete Times Forum. The Boston team was no where to be seen in the 2nd and 3rd periods. After dominating and leading 3-0 at the end of the first period, they disappeared allowing 5 straight goals by the home town Tampa Bay Lightning. The final: 5-3 Tampa Bay!
I’m alive and I couldn’t be happier. Wait a minute; who’s that man breaking into my garage. Oh my God, he has a gun and a very strange look in his eyes………..
It was bad this morning, our cable TV and Broadband went down at midnight, just back 17 hours later, risen from the ashes of Armageddon. Road traffic was pretty hellish as well this afternoon but I’m hopeful tha,t as a survivor, this is the land of milk and honey.
“but I’m hopeful tha,t as a survivor, this is the land of milk and honey.”
It is, just go down to the grocery store.
“Meanwhile the aliens on the way to blast us with their futuristic weapons as foretold by Dr. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and apparently honorary AGW climatologist, didn’t pay attention to their sensors due to the latest media blitz about the Schwarzenegger scandal and the Kahn resignation from the IMF, and the ships were destroyed. As a result, their power core fell into the atmosphere and reformed the ozone layer while dropping global temperatures to normal.”
Or, due to a disastrous miscalculation of scale, the entire invasion fleet was swallowed by a small dog.
h/t Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy plays better on this thread than it did on the big screen !!!
…. so, I think I’ll celebrate with a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, or two:
http://www.gumbopages.com/food/beverages/gargle-blaster.html
I went to the National Fruit Collection and the RHS Garden. Both places appeared to be thriving, although rain would be valued. Please send it to NW Europe from the States as it’s been the driest spring in decades.
No-one seemed anything but happy as it was a glorious fine day.
Just remember: all that stuff was written 2000 years ago.
It really was just talking about the end of the Piscean era, not the end of the world.
The next era is more focussed on science than religion.
Which for devoted Christians 2000 years ago would surely have been seen as the end of the world…..
“I went to the National Fruit Collection”
Isn’t that the state of California?
*rimshot*