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Bathorys Daughter wrote:

NOTDilbert wrote:Also, folks, if I read my Google fu correctly, this was the first day of The Last Sun, which will set on the Winter Solstice, and will not return.
BTW, this is the Age of the Jaguar, yes?
(Based on the most popular interpretation of the Maya Calendar. Or it may have already happened, won't happen for a thousand-odd years, or in a couple millenia. Mileage based on EPA estimates, yours may vary.)

Yes, it's so good that the world is about to end so we can get rid of this "the world is about to end" nonsense. Of course, not long after we make it to January 1, 2013, someone (who has a vested interested in keeping the myth going) will present an explanation as to why we are all still alive and doing just as good as ever. Something like,

HEADLINE: Man Discovers Flaw in Mayan Calendar Calculation!
It seems there was a mistake and two numbers were transposed. Instead of 2012, it's really 2021. Farquat Fleaspit, self-made muti-millionaire and well known expert on the doomsday predictions regarding the Mayan calendar, said Wednesday that he realized the error while looking at the date in a mirror. Since it's clear that the Mayan scholars were really people from a dimension which mirrored our own, it made perfect sense. He will be coming out with a book detailing his findings later in the month. This will make his 137th book on the subject, to be followed by a series of videos and a lecture tour to spread the word of the new discovery. When asked why the mirrored date could not also be interpreted as 2102 he replied, "What? Who's the expert here, me or you? Buy my book. It'll all be clear to you then." Before another question could be asked, he continued, "Of course, if the unthinkable occurs and it actually is 2102, you can rest assured, I will get to the bottom of it and present the facts in a new series of books. But, as far as I'm concerned the 2021 date is fact. You can take that to the bank. I certainly will."

Bathorys Daughter wrote:Wouldn't a pocket elf actually be a fairy? Like Tinkerbell. Of course, not all fairies are as nice as Tink.

Opus the Poet wrote:You know you would think that someone would have said something about M's hair turning white...

Bathorys Daughter wrote:Wouldn't a pocket elf actually be a fairy? Like Tinkerbell. Of course, not all fairies are as nice as Tink.

Julie wrote:

Bathorys Daughter wrote:Wouldn't a pocket elf actually be a fairy? Like Tinkerbell. Of course, not all fairies are as nice as Tink.

Which is funny...because Tink was a bit of a bitch (if you're going by Peter Pan standards...not the Tinkerbell franchise that Disney decided to create).

Bathorys Daughter wrote:

Julie wrote:

Bathorys Daughter wrote:Wouldn't a pocket elf actually be a fairy? Like Tinkerbell. Of course, not all fairies are as nice as Tink.

Which is funny...because Tink was a bit of a bitch (if you're going by Peter Pan standards...not the Tinkerbell franchise that Disney decided to create).

Not sure if you're talking about the original book or the original Peter Pan movie by Disney. I've never read the book, but you're right. As I recall she even tried to kill Wendy by luring her to the mermaids or some such. I think they gleefully said something like "we were only trying to drown her" when Peter rescued her from them. Nice cheerful psycho fish-girls. I guess I am going more by the Tinkerbell movies, which I really like. Now, if the fairy-girls would just fight each other to the death from time to time, they would be perfect.

Bathorys Daughter wrote:

Julie wrote:

Bathorys Daughter wrote:Wouldn't a pocket elf actually be a fairy? Like Tinkerbell. Of course, not all fairies are as nice as Tink.

Which is funny...because Tink was a bit of a bitch (if you're going by Peter Pan standards...not the Tinkerbell franchise that Disney decided to create).

Not sure if you're talking about the original book or the original Peter Pan movie by Disney. I've never read the book, but you're right. As I recall she even tried to kill Wendy by luring her to the mermaids or some such. I think they gleefully said something like "we were only trying to drown her" when Peter rescued her from them. Nice cheerful psycho fish-girls. I guess I am going more by the Tinkerbell movies, which I really like. Now, if the fairy-girls would just fight each other to the death from time to time, they would be perfect.