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

Damn. This sort of sneaked up on me. I hope it doesn't end until after the Conference play off between Wimbledon and Luton.

I had intended to go and see my Mother after the game so perhaps I ought to ring her and let her know I won't be coming. She may not have heard.

Anyway, it has been nice knowing you folks on H2G2. So long and thanks for all the Dunnocks Caramel Wafers.

PP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/asia_pacific/

no rapture in NZ



looks like a no-news day

no rapture here, no rapture there

lets all point and laugh at a silly a'mercun

It looks like it's been rescheduled.


Oddly, I feel a little disappointed.

Mr. Camping made us a very attractive offer: Oblivion or Chaos.

The lying fakir left us boring old Real Life.

oblivion and kaos

Am playing Disaster Area 'It's Only The End of the World (Again)' repeatedly on the gramophone in eager anticipation.

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

The world had better bloody well not end. I was on a date last night and I want to see him again!

I still stand by my post made on the 19th.
By the way just because I do a scenario where God destroys the world next Sunday does not mean I buy into the May 21st date. Actually I think it is just a pipe-dream.
Her is another scenario:
Vogons announce: Attention Earth dwellers- We are planning to demolish this planet next Tuesday when the direct rays of sunlight cross your Prime Meridian. If you wish to file for a stay you must do so by faster-than-light-fax to our branch office on alpha Centauri-d

If such fax is not received there by Monday we will proceed with the demolition.
So, I get up go to breakfast with my wife. We skip grocery shopping- no point if the world is coming to an end. I spend the day watching reports on TV. Saying goodby to my facebook friends, and read a few articles on hootoo.
When the end comes my physical body is anihilated with everything else and my soul flies up to the judgement seat of Christ to let him decide my future from that point on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g

the rapture is here!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13482584

how much money has this nut-bar caused to be wasted on this idiocy

just think how much "good" could have been done if that money had been spent on better, more deserving causes, YMCA ans Sally Army homeless shelters for example

the 21/05/11 are the ones who should be on "Ark B"

Surprised that Radox the Green didn't share his
Serenade For The End Of The Whirled with us:

http://www.esnips.com/doc/d03f08a7-db81-460b-ae49-050990ed74c5/Only-The-End-of-the-World-Again

Not a bad little ditty!

~jwf~

Announcer: Today's top story is the end of the world. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse arrived at 12:01 this morning, and they agreed to let us interview them. Here are some highlights from that interview:

War: Actually, I have rarely left your planet -- too busy, basically. I do get R & R from time to time. So, I was a lovely tropical p0lanet near Riga when I got the call about today's E.O.W. I told God that there's war on Earth whether I'm there or not, but He said I had to go. So here I am.

Famine: There just wasn't enough time to do my work properly, at least on the scale that was needed. Starvation takes months in countries where most of the people are overweight, plus I don't have the manpower -- or horsepower -- to hunt down the caches where people hide snacks. God said, "Just do your best. The other horsemen will handle whatever you can't."

Pestilence: I can work faster than Famine, but it's not easy, as most of my big successes come with slow-acting things like AIDS, or malaria, or TB. I do have a few fast-acting things up my sleeve, though: poisonous snakebites and poisoned mushrooms. Distribution's a problem.

Madness: Don't worry about distribution, Pestilence. Just make plenty of Kool-Aid, and I will take it from there....

Elektra and I commemorated the run-up to the latest faux apocalypse by watching 'The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny', an opera about the human condition and all its works and pomps. Brecht nailed it, I think. I really recommend it.

God shows up in the city of Mahagonny (which looks a lot like any capitalist venture) and tells everybody, 'Go to hell.'

They reply, 'We're already there.'

Why, exactly, is everyone so obsessed by this guy who said the world will end? They do it *all* the time. Yet it has still spawned countless threads on hootoo, and it's prominent in all the newspapers.

It's a bit "dog bites man", to be honest. Nutters are always saying the world will end next week.

I think it was a slow news week, KB. They didn't start talking about it until the sex lives of California governors began to get boring.

Boring? On the contrary, it seems they're quite eventful.

KB I think it's known as a bit of fun for most people..a sort of h2g2 tradition. It's pretty easy to avoid though. Just don't click on that link in Ask.

Good point, there. Participation in the apocalypse is never mandatory...