BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.

Subject: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: The Shambles
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 12:13 PM

If it has already happened, there is a possibility that those in power have not told us about it - for reasons of their own.

However if it has not yet happemed - we may as well talk about it now - as we may not get the chance to do it then.

How was it for you?

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 12:16 PM

"I got stoned, and I missed it"

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: MMario
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 12:16 PM

it moved

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: diesel
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 12:20 PM

I just hope I managed to take a good photo of it !
And if any outstanding debts - ah well - cheque is in the post.

D..

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Peace
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 12:36 PM

It's a circle, fer krissake; how can it end?

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Peace
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 12:37 PM

I think this is bologna. If the world really ended, it would have been on CNN.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 12:37 PM

Well that certainly explains my computer tech problems...

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: *daylia*
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 12:45 PM

Don't worry - I just took another one out of the freezer. See y'all at dinner.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: pdq
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 12:45 PM

It could have lasted longer but we ran out of Viagra.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 12:50 PM

Millions of handwringers left behind to complete rapture exit polling analysis for a comeback in 2008.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 12:51 PM

Actually I think it just needs to reboot.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Big Mick
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 12:51 PM

Thought you were leaving?

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 12:57 PM

"'Till the end of the world comes 'round.
I'm still in love with you..."

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: pdq
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 01:00 PM

New York Times headline:

         World ends, Bush to blame!

Guardian headline:

         World ends, poor and minorities hardest hit.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: GUEST,mudcat artist
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 01:03 PM

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/dday.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 01:13 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Little Robyn
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 01:23 PM

I agree with Ellenpoly but it needs to be rebooted into safe mode!
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Fishpicker
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 01:38 PM

Too bad, we werent even done logging it all off and paving it yet.

                               FP

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 01:46 PM

Well, we have definitive proof on another thread that hell has frozen over (the religion=mental illness one, I think), so it follows that if hell has frozen over, hell is extinct, therefore life is over, because as we all know, Life is Hell.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Fishpicker
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 01:48 PM

Anyone that doesn't think hell freezes over has never spent a winter in Alaska!

                           FP

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 01:50 PM

but I have this really neat snowball, Sue...

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 01:54 PM

A snowball? Gee! What are the chances...

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 05:17 PM

The government must have organised the end of the world. If anyone else had done it, i would have happened in 2000 like it was supposed to.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Peace
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 05:24 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 12:34 AM

It didn't happen in 2000? Can we come out of our Y2K bunker then? We've run out of Cheetos.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 12:40 AM

I am not here anymore.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Peace
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 01:11 AM

You ARE here until CNN says you're not.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 01:25 AM

Ah, so that's it...

And still no Hillary doll.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Peace
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 02:04 AM

Listen, buddy. Don't even THINK of talkin' about dolls. DO NOT think of it. I will be forced to mention the figure 853. Ah, HA!

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: GUEST,Arnie
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 09:02 AM

Darn. I was hoping to get out of this world alive.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 11:50 AM

Mine wouldn't end, it refused to. Said I had too many windows open and the draught was giving it a stiff neck.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 12:24 PM

I wish someone had told me before I made this month's mortgage payment. What a waste!

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 12:38 PM

If only I'd known about it earlier, I could have said to prettiest woman at hand, "Quick let's have sex, the world's about to end".

There is this lovely poem by Roger McGough on the subject:


At Lunchtime

When the bus stopped suddenly
To avoid damaging
A mother and child in the road
The young lady in the green hat sitting opposite
Was thrown across me
And not being one to miss an opportunity
I started to make love

At first, she resisted
Saying that it was too early in the morning
And too soon after breakfast
And anyway, she found me repulsive
But when I explained
That this being a nuclear age
The world was going to end at lunchtime
She took off her green hat
Put her bus ticket into her pocket
And joined in the exercise

The bus people
And there were many of them
Were shocked and surprised
And amused and annoyed
But when word got around
That the world was going to end at lunchtime
They put their pride in their pockets
With their bus tickets
And made love one with the other
And even the bus conductor
Feeling left out
Climbed into the cab
And struck up some sort of relationship with the driver

That night
On the bus coming home
We were all a little embarrassed
Especially me and the young lady in the green hat
And we all started to say
In different ways
How hasty and foolish we had been
But then, always having been a bit of a lad
I stood up and said it was a pity
That the world didn't nearly end every lunchtime
And that we could always pretend
And then it happened

Quick as a crash
We all changed partners
And soon the bus was aquiver
With white, mothball bodies doing naughty things

And the next day
And every day
In every bus
In every street
In every town
In every country

People pretended
That the world was coming to an end at lunchtime
It still hasn't
Although in a way it has

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 12:46 PM

Well Mr Bryant the thread title brought exactly the same poem to my mind [Penguin Modern Poets Number 10, McGough Henri & Patten] but you beat me to it. Lovely poem too.
Giok ;~)

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: The Shambles
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 01:13 PM

How strange.........Dave I had been thinking about it today and I was just going to look the poem up and place it here, when I saw that you had already done so!

I had just gotten off the bus - having also just told my fellow passengers that the world had ended and that it would soon be comfirmed on the BBC - so I was a bit tired. If there is to be a tomorrow - we have arranged to do it all again, then.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: grumpy al
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 01:48 PM

kin typical init? always the alst to be told and now i'm left here on my own! hang on I must be dead too... shame no one told me.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: PoppaGator
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 01:58 PM

If the world has ended, then this is the afterlife.

If this is the afterlife, I must have fucked up BIG TIME!

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 02:03 PM

don't worry...there IS something beyond

and here is how it may happen ...with commentary (one of those Flash things, like the squirrels)

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 02:14 PM

haven't seen any of these signs yet...maybe it didn't really happen!

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: The Shambles
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 02:22 PM

Bloke down the pub told me about it - so it must have happened.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 02:24 PM

oh, yes...I see! You can't argue with info from the pub!...well, at least it wont be ALL bad

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: robomatic
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 02:27 PM

But they knocked down me shack to make a bypass. And all I've got to show for it is a fish in me ear!

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: robomatic
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 02:30 PM

USA Today:
      WE'RE DEAD

    The Wall Street Journal:
      DOW JONES PLUMMETS AS WORLD ENDS

    National Enquirer:
      O.J. AND NICOLE, TOGETHER AGAIN

    Playboy:
      GIRLS OF THE APOCALYPSE

    Microsoft Systems Journal:
      APPLE LOSES MARKET SHARE

    Victoria's Secret Catalog:
      OUR FINAL SALE

    Sports Illustrated:
      GAME OVER

    Wired:
      THE LAST NEW THING

    Rolling Stone:
      THE GRATEFUL DEAD REUNION TOUR

    Readers Digest:
      'BYE

    Discover Magazine:
      HOW WILL THE EXTINCTION OF ALL LIFE AS WE KNOW IT
      AFFECT THE WAY WE VIEW THE COSMOS?

    TV Guide:
      DEATH AND DAMNATION: NIELSON RATINGS SOAR!

    Lady's Home Journal:
      LOSE 10 LBS BY JUDGEMENT DAY WITH OUR NEW "ARMAGEDDON" DIET!

    America Online:
      SYSTEM TEMPORARILY DOWN. TRY CALLING BACK IN 15 MINUTES.

    Inc. magazine:
      TEN WAYS YOU CAN PROFIT FROM THE APOCALYPSE

    Microsoft's Web Site:
      IF YOU DIDN'T EXPERIENCE THE RAPTURE,
      DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE PATCH RAPT777.EXE.

    Sun:
      ARMAGEDDON TOLERANT SOFTWARE NOW AVAILABLE!

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 03:04 PM

Sex isn't all it's cracked up to be, but it is more fun than bowling or doing your tax return...

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: dianavan
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 03:17 PM

The world has not ended. From a U.S. perspective, it might as well have. Time to start paying attention to sustainability.

http://www.vancourier.com/issues04/112204/opinion/112204op3.html

d

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 04:35 PM

Good article, dianavan. And essentially correct, I think. Kerry would have carried on much the same policy as Bush, but his election would have lulled people into a false sense of security for awhile, imagining that things were about to change for the better.

It is in fact of more benefit that the real facts of the matter, which are dire, should not be camouflaged by merely "changing the curtains" on the White House. Progressive forces can rally more effectively against George Bush than would have been the case against John Kerry, because they already know who George Bush is.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 04:36 PM

Well, i was all set for it happening in 2000. ON Hogmanay 1999, me and my friends got almightily drunk(who wants to be sober for armageddon?)and nothing happened. So we thought maybe they'd got the dates wrong..you know how unreliable these ancient prophcies are- and we did it again next year...and the next year...and the next year...

Anyway, we've come to the conclusion that we must have saved the world when we were pissed. Please send us whisky so we can repeat the performance this year.365 more days of existance, for only ten bottles of Jack-you know you want to!

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: pdq
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 07:23 PM

Fresno Bee headline:

                World ends! Lacy Peterson murder jury still out.

Mudcat headline thread:

               World ends. GUESTanon. no longer a problem.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: The Shambles
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 06:55 AM

Note from UK TV companies.

Due the latest news - the showing of any programmes showing any scenes likely to remind viewers that the world has ended - will be replaced with a showing of Mary Poppins.

[Last weekend there was a serious train crash - the scheduled showing of The Railway Children - was replaced with Robin Hood.]

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 12:21 AM

YOu know, there's a theory that if anyone ever finds out the meaning of life, the world will end and be replaced by something even stranger.


Bollocks say i!. It's already happened! :0)

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Cluin
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 01:41 AM

BI: Don't panic!

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Peace
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 01:44 AM

It ain't over until the diva sings.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: GUEST,The Shambles
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 11:24 AM

I told you so!

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 11:29 AM

World has not ended, it just was the victim of censorship.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Jim Tailor
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 12:04 PM

WORLD TO END TOMORROW
Women and children expected to be hardest hit.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 05:17 PM

Of course it has an end. We know, because we have lost contact with our brothers of the Australian Flat Earth Society. Also, the members of our expedition to Antarctica have failed to return.

Signed
English Flat Earth Society

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Teresa
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 05:27 PM

To get a good idea of what it might be like, read the fine novelization of Asimov's Nightfall I think Ben bova and Robert Silverberg.

We'll be so busy arguing about what caused it, we won't even notice. :) E.G. the politicizing of global warming.

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: gnu
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 05:40 PM

If you've ever been to the abyss, the end of the earth, on Grand Manan Island off the coast of New Brunswick, you wouldn't worry about the end of the earth because you could just avoid falling off. The Flat Earth Society of New brunswick takes it's members there every summer so they know where to not dare tread. It's fun and educational.

Oh! You mean the whole world. Sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 06:45 PM

That explains the power cut we had earlier then....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 07:52 PM

No, they just changed to running the simulation we're in on Microsoft....

Bunnahabhain

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Morticia
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 08:08 PM

I'm worried that spatulas, given their recent, undeserved acclaim, may have a hand ( rubber spoony bit) in the end of the world.You brought it on yourselves.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Peace
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 08:10 PM

This could be a boon. Means I won't have bills in a week. Look on the bright side.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Peace
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 12:33 AM

Well . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: DougR
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:38 PM

THE WORLD HAS ENDED! Details at 11:00 PM.

pdq:LOL

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 07:51 AM

Hehehehehe...

Well, i'm glad to announce that i got almightily pissed for the new year again. That's why you're all still here.

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: GUEST,Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 07:56 AM

So how come I have to go back to work? I miss all the good stuff...

Subject: RE: BS: World has ended - unconfirmed at moment.
From: GUEST,The Shambles
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 10:41 AM

Don't let anyone tell you that the world is still going around.

It's just 'spin'..............