It's always a bit of a snort how, when the predicted date for Doomsday, Armageddon, the Rapture, or any of a whole menu of End-of-the-World predictions passes (both religious and secular), the predictors and believers may be a bit disappointed (like anticipating a television show that gets pre-empted at the last minute), but they are completely unembarrassed and undismayed. They just pull up their socks, skippy-toe a bit further along in the calendar, and set a new date.

Don Firth