Wow, Mayan calendar, end of world. This explains everything about the Federal Reserve and the country’s spending.
What is world ends on December 22, 2012? - a day late, hmmm, after all - prophets are held to great accuracy - this would make them wrong. Ok, lets make that the 23rd so that they can’t use the International date line and time zones as an excuse.
Ever notice that those site that suggest you buy six months in advance usually have a store to sell “survival” foods.
It never hurts to have “survival foods” in the pantry, when you get a sudden unexpected break in work and you want to take a hike in the mountains, having some freeze dried Mountain House or Richmoor is just what you need. Ramps are up right now, they can really improve the flavour of freeze dried food.
A low whistle shall call forth the end of times. Please do not let it be bagpipes or a concertina. Bagpipes would make some sense but I think folks would just laugh if it was a concertina. An ocarina would be old school but no one would know what it was. And the moment would be ruined by having to tell everyone, “You know, Zelda’s Ocarina of Time thingy.”
Poetically, smite is sometimes used to describe the strike or touch of a musical instrument. I’m going to interpret this bit from William Cowper’s “The Task” as a preference for, say, a whistle or flute at the end of days as opposed to something more crass.
Ah, tinkling cymbal, and high-sounding brass,
Smitten in vain! such music cannot charm
The eclipse that intercepts truth’s heavenly beam,
And chills and darkens a wide wandering soul.
The still small voice is wanted.
Of course, the word smite is also associated with the game of cricket. In “Life, the Universe, and Everything” Douglas Adams made it clear that the end of universe would come when the renegade Krikkit robots manage to reassemble the Wikkit Gate. Since a key component thereof are The Ashes, I propose that we form a C&F whistling vigil around the Marylebone Cricket Museum at Lords. A rousing rendition of The Peeler’s Jacket should repel even the most hostile of aliens. I suppose that does mean we will have to keep paying our credit card bills.
Herbert George got the nuclear bomb wrong… he described it as a kind of continuous explosion. And his machines from the “War in the Air” went “clitter-clock”. Not “Brrrreeeeeeeyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam!” There hasn’t been an Air Conference in Basra yet, unless they’re keeping it very quiet. Did he get anything right? Oh… the Morlocks thing I suppose.
At least I will be able to get another birthday celebrated on 11-9-11. My wife and I might spend lavishly before then. Knowing the exact date of your last day simplifies retirement planning, doesn’t it? And might as well forget about diets and similar restrictions.