Mayans say world is going to end Friday so I'm waiting til Saturday to start Christmas shopping

[TeamPooka]

#justincase

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. I'm not shopping. I'm raiding the stuff left by the end timers.

It's all free.

[TeamPooka]

3. lol

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. all I will find in my raiding down here in the South will be guns, beer and huge tv screens.

and grits..lots of grits.

[Kber]

13. Grits are good.

[brooklynite]

2. That's absolutely ridiculous...

...You want to buy your stuff now so you get to enjoy them tonight without the charges going through...

[TeamPooka]

4. that's another way to go, spend til it ends....

[Sekhmets Daughter]

6. It's already Friday

in Australia and China...

[Cleita]

7. What's the point?

If friday is doomsday, you can't take your money savings with you anyway.

[TeamPooka]

8. avoiding the hassle of shopping, maybe you love it but not me

[Cleita]

9. No I went out yesterday to do some shopping and it was a nightmare. Ugh! n/t

[RebelOne]

18. I hate the hassle of Christmas shopping.

All of my shopping is done online. No fighting the Christmas shoppers. Everything is just shipped to my door.

[NightWatcher]

10. Damnit, no reports of End of Times from Japan, Austrailia, etc....

Gotta send in my tax payment and student loan money tomorrow.

[TeamPooka]

16. If the worlds going to end it will justifiably start in America.... :)

[kydo]

11. You are just going for the crazy sales

this weekend just about everything is buy one get one free. That one mens store JD Banks or what ever has buy 1 get 2 free stuff. And Macy's is open the whole freaking weekend. Shoot even JCP is actually having a sale.

I wished they have a buy 1 get 1 free at the apple store. Either way I'm done shopping started Wednesday finished Wednesday, now its cooking time. Gotta start the tamale meat friday and when I wake up on sat I will commence making Christmas tamales.

But just in case the world might end I think I will call my mom and wish her a happy end of the world and that I did get her order of 2 dozen ck tamales and 3 dozen pork and I'll see her on New Years.

[KansDem]

12. I don't understand all this Mayan hoopla!

When did the Mayans exert such an influence on American history and society? I mean, do we ever talk about Mayan literature? Or discuss the contributions of the Mayan movie industry? How about Mayan pop recoding artists or Mayan intellectuals? And what about Mayan cuisine? When’s the last time you went out for Mayan food?

Sure, the Mayas had a rich civilization and culture, but those slipped into decline around 1200 and we haven’t paid much attention to them since. But, just let them bring out this calendar that suggests the world will end tomorrow and we all go apeshit!

I think tomorrow will be on par with Y2K.

We Americans are a fickle people…

[tama]

15. It's Western hoopla

There are still Mayans using the calendar and they don't like the Western hystery hoopla any more than you do and tell so out loud for anyone willing to listen. They say that the end of a calendar cycle and beginning of new cycle means deep changes, but not the end of the world. And from the look of it, they seem right.

As for "decline", western people theorize much why Mayans abandoned the pyramid building culture and went back to more simple way of life. But I haven't seen so far anyone asking Mayans themselves why they did so. The oppression and massacres continue, as does Mayan resistance. The Zapatista uprising by Mayan people has been great source of inspiration and learning for also western people.

PS: here's a Mayan Nobel Peace Prize winner. Much more justified choice than Obama the "let's not prosecute any war criminals" drone man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigoberta_Mench%C3%BA
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jLYy1jtBKU3WsNZRqWpDuv0y-idw?docId=CNG.5d9aadb13475faa5f122730bdb364726.521

[RebelOne]

19. Yup, I am one of those who freaked out about Y2K.

Glad nothing came of it. But I stockpiled a lot of canned tuna. My dog and I ate a lot of tuna after the Y2K scare.

[ThomThom]

21. there must be some mistake, the calendar I got from my

real estate company ends on Monday the 31th not the 21st. What gives do I have until the end of the month or not?

[Posteritatis]

33. It's definitely Western hoopla; the Maya are rather annoyed by it. (nt)

[louis-t]

14. Capital idea.

I'm not going to quit smoking until after the holiday.

[TeamPooka]

17. wait until the new year for that anyway

thats when you make resolutions.

[louis-t]

20. I can't just say "I'm going to quit on such-and-such day."

I have to do it when I'm out of smokes and in a good mood. Could be months.

[TeamPooka]

22. lol

[Octafish]

23. Firesign Theatre: Magog Brothers - Atlantis Carpet Reclaimers ''It's a Cataclysmic Sale.''

8:22 mark time!

[love_katz]

32. ROFLMAO

Thank you, Octafish. I've never seen that particular Fire Sign Theater before.

"It's a Cataclysmic Sale", reminds me of local commercials from the 1960's. Too funny! I can remember that echoing voice-over from the announcer. Thanks for the flashback.

[fadedrose]

24. No sense in wasting money on presents no one can use....very smart of you. nt

[TeamPooka]

25. thank you!

[Warpy]

26. The Maya never said such a silly thing, only that a new age was starting

as the prefix on their calendar changes.

Idiot wooheads who predicted the same thing when our calendar prefix changed are the same ones who are predicting the end of the world now.

[a la izquierda]

31. Yep.

I'll be happy when this shit is over with. I've had questions about it every semester for years.

[Warpy]

35. I just feel terribly sorry for the folks on the Yucatan and in Guatemala

You know every woohead on the planet with plane fare and a working knowledge of Velikovsky's horseshit has descended upon them.

I just hope the indigenous population is fleecing them thoroughly. It's high time they caught a break.

[a la izquierda]

36. Jeez, no kidding.

I about flipped my lid when I saw billboards promoting 2012 when I was on a research trip in the Yucatan about 2 years ago. My husband pointed out that the native communities likely took the tourists to the cleaners.
Hehehe

[Walk away]

27. My birthday was yesterday but I'm waiting until tomorrow before I add a year to my age....

I am also waiting until Saturday to wash the dogs.

[TeamPooka]

29. my birthday is the 20th too.

[Walk away]

34. Happy B-Day to us!

[MFM008]

28. HAPPY END OF THE WORLD

again.....

[pinboy3niner]

30. Skeeter Davis -- The End Of The World (1963)