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Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

As the Mayans have been kind enough to give us the date of the end, what are your plans for 20 December; your last day on this earth?
End of the world party? Wild spree of madness, fervent prayer or quiet night with a book?

Posted by shamwari (# 15556) on :

We have heard all this before

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

Heard what? This is not a thread about the silly misinterpretations of the Mayan calender. This is a thread about people's silly plans for the night before.
Any excuse for a party, in my book.

Apologies if there has been a thread like this and I missed it.

Edited for clarity. Yes, it was worse.

[ 18. October 2012, 19:13: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]

Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :

I thought I might get completely hammered. Because I will not have a night of throwing up or a hangover.

And I will also put every drink, including stupid mixtures of cocktails and champers and the most expensive stuff I can find on my credit card, because I will never have to pay it off.

If, of course, it doesn't happen, I will be in serious trouble. But we can always trust the Mayans, can't we?

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

20 December, eh? Well that lets us off Christmas (so the end of the world has an upside).

Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :

I don't care if we go before Christmas. I am still going to watch Miracle on 34th Street (the original, with Edmund Gwenn and Natalie Wood--not any of the amazingly crappy remakes). It's tradition. And what better way to spend the Last Day than watching the one, true Santa Claus restoring people's faith in what he stands for?

Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :

Oh, good. [Paranoid]

We'll be around to do the Family Christmas event on Advent III, but not Christmas Eve. After all the practicing the choir is doing, can't we tack a sticky note with a few extra days onto the Mayan calendar?

Bummer.

Oh, and maybe add a couple more days after that. It's just so hard to fit in End of the World™ events with such a busy schedule, you know.

Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :

Sitting at my computer posting on the Ship because I'll finally be able to guarantee having the last word.

Posted by comet (# 10353) on :

same thing every year on the solstice - freezing my ass off at a bonfire, drinking too much mulled wine, singing loudly, and probably saying things I'd regret - except I won't have to worry about the regrets. [Big Grin]

maybe I'll finally tell that one former co-worker of mine how much time I have spent staring at his butt.

Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :

quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
Sitting at my computer posting on the Ship because I'll finally be able to guarantee having the last word.

And meanwhile, I'll be trying to see if I can't break all ten commandments and a few implied rules in a single post.

It's either that, or try to score a last date in some bar. I know which one's probably more fun.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

Possible chat-up line: hey, let's go up to my place and break all Ten Commandments!*

(Followed by hours of date staring glumly at the Complete Works of Aristotle at the beddes heed while Ariston hammers at his laptop).

*success could depend on a certain level of Biblical illiteracy.

Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :

I think I just found the first conversation I want to put on the Quotes File.

Posted by Nenya (# 16427) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
Possible chat-up line: hey, let's go up to my place and break all Ten Commandments!*

I'll need to buy some new underwear - essential if we're to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. I might be wearing a skirt that day.

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Nenya:
...if we're to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

I hate to break this to you, but if the Mayans were right that's not going to be an issue.

Posted by Surfing Madness (# 11087) on :

Last Thursday before Christmas....I'm likely to be having a pre Christmas celebration with some jugglers, so any madness could be happening. [Ultra confused]

Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :

On the other hand, Hanukkah starts on December 9--so the Hannukah Elf (on his Flying Dreidel) will have completed his annual chores before the Mayans blow the whistle for time.

Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on :

I would want to spend the entire night making love with my sweetheart, as niether one of us would have to get up for work the next day.

Posted by Cenobite (# 14853) on :

It's Mrs Cenobite's birthday, so we will celebrate in style!

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

Oh no, that's the day BEFORE the choir party! Can't they postpone it by one day to let us really make the party go with a BANG!?

Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :

I'll be going to a wonderful choral concert with a good friend, so not a bad last-night-ever!

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

Anyone remember a couple of years ago (I think) the tabloids getting excited about the day they were going to collide particles at Cern? If the people in Cern got the experiment wrong, the world would explode.

It was due to happen mid-morning (a precise time was given) and it was a beautiful sunny day. Somehow at that time I was outside looking up at the sky thinking that I didn't want to die indoors on such a beautiful day and how lovely the world was. Then, suddenly -

- nothing happened.

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Loquacious beachcomber:
I would want to spend the entire night making love with my sweetheart, as niether one of us would have to get up for work the next day.

Meanwhile, what will your wife be doing?

[Biased]

Posted by Og, King of Bashan (# 9562) on :

We thought about going down to the Yucatan for the big event, on the theory that if the end of the world was ushered in by some wild Indiana Jones style special effects, we would have a front row seat, and that if the world didn't end, we could go back to Modelos on the beach. But that didn't come together, and it will probably be packed anyway. So we are currently planning on sequestering ourselves in the house with a bottle of champagne or three. I make a delicious Yucatan-style turkey dish in my slow cooker from time to time, maybe I will make that for the night of the big event.

Posted by Zacchaeus (# 14454) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
20 December, eh? Well that lets us off Christmas (so the end of the world has an upside).

Damm this is the first year that I am organised and being prepared - and now I won't need to be. I could have spent all that money on loose living instead.

Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on :

I think I will prepare a logbook of things that have happened so I can show St Peter the real story.

If that doesn't happen, I will be hosting. as usual, and counting down to midnight.

Or whenever it happens.

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

Whose midnight I wonder? And on what side of the dateline?

Ah, maybe Yucatan's. Midnight. Or dawn. Or sunset. Or...as Pete says "Whenever".

[ 20. October 2012, 07:18: Message edited by: Lyda*Rose ]

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

What matter the time? Simply continue the party.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

Just as a matter of interest, any detail on what form The End will take? Giant wolf eating the sun? Earth gaping and the sea rising? The stars going out one by one?

I mean will there be anything going on that would make it worth while putting your glass down, pulling on a few clothes and going outside to look?

Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :

You must go out to see the credits, listed in the sky:

THE END
Produced and directed by God
Music by Wagner

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
Just as a matter of interest, any detail on what form The End will take? Giant wolf eating the sun? Earth gaping and the sea rising? The stars going out one by one?

I mean will there be anything going on that would make it worth while putting your glass down, pulling on a few clothes and going outside to look?

The Mayans neglected that detail. The scholars studying the event have arrived at many different theories, almost as if pulling them out of their...well, far be it from me to criticise the
experts.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
You must go out to see the credits, listed in the sky:

THE END
Produced and directed by God
Music by Wagner

Wagner was Mayan?

Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:

quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
You must go out to see the credits, listed in the sky:

THE END
Produced and directed by God
Music by Wagner
Wagner was Mayan?

The Mayans just predicted (or not) the end. They didn't predict the music, because Herr Wagner wasn't around yet.
[Biased]

Posted by Rowen (# 1194) on :

I just wonder about what to wear... Is it formal, do you think? Or mart casual? Funeral black?
Should I get my hair done?

Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :

I would think comfy clothing would be correct. Who knows what gyrations and acrobatics we might be subject to? Surely it will be a big finish rather than a quiet little *poof*.

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

From what I understand most actual, living Mayans aren't that worried. I hope they reap a good tourism bump during December.

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

Silly Lyda. The Mayans are not worried as the aliens who helped them build their pyramids are returning to pick them up before the end.

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

Well, damn! Maybe I should go to the Yucatan for the holidays and stow away on a rescue ship. I just hope it won't be the Vogons making way for an interstellar bypass. My own teenage poetry is about the worst poetry I could handle. [Ultra confused]

Posted by Rowen (# 1194) on :

I would like to prepare special food for a fun party to celebrate the end of the world. But what exactly? Maybe a quiche? Apple crumble?

Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :

Devils on horseback, surely?

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
Surely it will be a big finish rather than a quiet little *poof*.

Not according to TS Eliot, but that's another story.

Or is it?

I shall wear my trousers rolled. (Gotta feel sad for my daughter, though, who turns 20 that day)

Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :

I imagine the end of the world being more like Glyndebourne. Dress will be informal (ie, black tie/dinner suit) and the evening will finish with the orchestra playing the national anthem ('God save the King' of course, God being an Englishman).

The question will then be whether to repair to the bar for a final drink or to endure the scrum of exiting the car park. People will depart for Heaven, Valhalla, Sto'Vo'Kor etc as appropriate, with those whose manifold wickedness means they are not fit for eternal bliss heading for Guildford.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

I just hope there's some air traffic control in place. Otherwise there could be aerial pile ups between raptured Southern Baptists and galloping Valkyries, particularly with all those spaceships dodging about trying to get their tractor beams in position.

I'm seeing a lot of people ending up in the wrong afterlife.

Posted by Sarumriterules (# 16032) on :

Does one have to book?

Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :

Surely reservations would be wise, one would think.

I wonder if there's travel insurance available to cover the potential destination snafus that Firenze warned us about?

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sarumriterules:
Does one have to book?

Everyone will be there. Of course you have to book.

Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
Everyone will be there. Of course you have to book.

Sounds like a bit of a crush. I think I'll stay home and watch the highlights the next day.

Posted by Galilit (# 16470) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Rowen:
Apple crumble?

Apple crumble with added blueberries and red-currants topped with lashings and lashings of sweetened whipped cream dusted with fresh-ground nutmeg and cinnamon and a big scoop of vanilla ice cream with maple drizzled across it fancily.
Served on a large white bone china dessert plate pref with tiny floral designs in red and cornflower blue round the circumference...

[ 21. October 2012, 21:51: Message edited by: Galilit ]

Posted by Rowen (# 1194) on :

Sounds good, but I will have to make sure I collect the plate it's on, and take it with me. I hate leaving containers behind after functions like this, and who knows? I might need it in the afterlife for events there.

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