h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Reading this thread, I can't help but recall pheloxi's final message to us. Even if it never was before, now, truly, it is time to wear a hat.




Geggs

Exactly my thought too, when the wearing a tin foil hat idea was raised...

I've never worn a tin foil hat before, for the reasons outlines in the fabulus guide entry covering the matter (as linked too above), namely, that not wearing one would greatly increase both my likelyhood of being abducted by intelligent alienliform, and thereby also increase the likelyhood of being probed... anally...

But Gnomon, thats not supposed to reach here for millennia this is much more urgent.

I'll wear my owl hat (not to be confused with my oul hat), which has got gold sparkly bits on - I'm sure that'll have the same effect as tinfoil.

Do we need to wear clean panties for the end of the world... I'm sure I recall that being important a thing to do... But I can't remember why...

Sure. You should also have one $5 bill and three quarters in the pocket. You should wear a black shirt, sweat pants and a new pair of Nike Decade trainers. I also recommend an "Away Team" arm band.

Trainers? I can't have worn trainers for..... twenty plus years... If I'm not allowed to wear my black leather boots, I'm not coming....
The black shirt is fine though... I mean lieklyhood is on any given day I'm wearing a black shirt anyhow
hang on...
I'm starting to have the faintest inkling of the scantest and most hazily remembered, vaguest sense of a sort of vague kind of flimsy memory.... Something about brown paper bags....
*thinks*
Oh...
Weren't we all meant to put brown paper bags on our heads, for the end of the world?; I think it might help...

In this case it was plastic bags and purple cloths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(religious_group)#Mass_suicide_and_aftermath

Oh. my BoB. I so have to join that cult, they're true nut-jobs to the core of their litle cotton pineapples! 'away team' armbands... I mean... Come-on... Surely even they must have seen how truely insane and silly an idea that was
They have done much justice to teh world, by removing themselves perminantly from the gene pool of humanity

*makes note to get in some pinapple juice and purple cloths*

Actually, that's the weird thing about that group. They were mostly bright young individuals. They ran a very successful IT business.

Anyway, This happened in 1997. My cult, the Church of the Subgenius, had predicted the end of the world to occur on 5 July, 1998 (being US-centric at the time, it was believed that few would notice as they'd be too hung over from the 4th of July celebrations). So, when the Heaven's Gate mass suicide happened, our church chided them on being premature. Then when 5 July, 1998 passed without apparent incident it was decreed that the church elders had simply read the date upside down and the end of the world would indeed happen in the year 8661.

Praise BoB

on clean panties, I thought that was 'in case you get run over by a bus scenerio' not 'end of the world scenerio', still I s'pose the two could sort of coincide I was thinking of going commando myself but just in case, clean panties and tin foil hat it is then...

If you're not wearin' 'em, they ain't gettin' dirty.

My company normally pay me for December on the 17th or so, but this year they're delaying until the 21st. I wonder is this a cost-saving measure?

I had considered wearing a nappy in case of any end of world shit myself accidents, but instead I am going for the immodium option, it is all about the forward planning

that's not sexy is it

I could lend you a champagne cork.

thank you, if the world doesn't end would you like it back afterwards as it is a lend

(sorry Jimmy is me, Peanut, posted by mistake, wrong id)

Yes the same on my company!!! I wonder

I'm using a subtitute-calendar strategy. I bought a couple of 2013 calendars. I asked the sales clerks: "If the world ends on the 21st, can I return these on the 22nd?" I'm banking on the possibility that those of us who have calendars for the period *after* Dec. 21 might be saved. I don't know what will happen to the ones who don't. Maybe those of us who do will save everybody, in which the rest will owe us big.

Oh man, it's all starting to make sense now -
y'got the rap, the wrapping and the rapture
all converging on the shortest day of the year!

*waiting for the 22nd so we can wrap up this
rapture rap crap*

"On the twenty tooth of Deck
my tooth love send to me
clean pair of panties
and hope for twenty three..."


~jwf~

To paraphrase Country Joe and the Fish, we might as well go out laughing and singing and having a good time. Or, Monty Python-speak, we should enjoy it, it's our last chance anyhow.