[MooseasaurusRex]

Yep.
According to the Mayan calendar we only have 4 years left as of today. (Thier calendar ends 21 Dec 2012).

Now a lot of egghead buzz killers say something bad is gonna happen that day. Like REALLY bad. Like all the worst parts of The Bible type bad.

But fear not! I feel the Mayans ended thier calendar on that day because they ran out of pictures of pretty girls in bikinis to put on said calendar.

Disscuss.

OH! The 'velcro' part of the title... just trying to get your attention.

[Gazelle]

I'm hooked (velcro pun here).

My dear man, contrary to the history books you've been reading photography wasn't developed (pun alert) during the Mayan times. Perhaps you're thinking of some other form of artwork of girls in bikinis?

I mean really, Mayan girls in bikinis near burial mounds? Stepped pyramids? Stelae? Ok, I see possibilities here.


The Mayan area extended to Belize. Hmmm.... maybe Cayo will have something interesting to contribute to the discussion.

[LavandulaCanadensis]

did anyone notice that on the mayan calendar, underneath their last day, 21 december, 2012, in very very fine print, it says:

return to GO!

[Gazelle]

I want my $200 (with interest).

[Momma's Kids]

You know if you stick velcro the ceiling and the top of a kid's head...they can't jump on the bed.

[LavandulaCanadensis]

Gazelle,
monopoly_money.jpg

[MooseasaurusRex]

If it all ends on 21 Dec of any year at least you got time to get your Christmas layaway out.

Velcro equipped toys or not.

[CayoKay]

Originally Posted by Gazelle

The Mayan area extended to Belize. Hmmm.... maybe Cayo will have something interesting to contribute to the discussion.

yes'm, I live in a Maya village, near ancient Maya ruins.

as Lavendula noted, the apocalyptic-doomsday scenarios are a common myth and misinterpretation of the Maya Long Count calendar...

fun to speculate upon, but baseless, and in error, according to scholars.

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar forms the basis for a New Age belief, first forecast by José Argüelles, that a cataclysm will take place on or about December 21, 2012, a forecast that mainstream Mayanist scholars consider a misinterpretation, yet is commonly referenced in pop-culture media as the 2012 problem.

"For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle," says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. in Crystal River, Florida. To render December 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is "a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar

so, no doomsday, but instead, a joyous celebration.

[ania]

Originally Posted by MooseasaurusRex

Yep.
According to the Mayan calendar we only have 4 years left as of today. (Thier calendar ends 21 Dec 2012).

Now a lot of egghead buzz killers say something bad is gonna happen that day. Like REALLY bad. Like all the worst parts of The Bible type bad.

But fear not! I feel the Mayans ended thier calendar on that day because they ran out of pictures of pretty girls in bikinis to put on said calendar.

Disscuss.

OH! The 'velcro' part of the title... just trying to get your attention.

Last year when you posted this info we had only 5yrs left...remind me again next year.
Then maybe I'll start looking for a cave to stockpile my poptarts and velcro.

[Erin524]

Originally Posted by MooseasaurusRex

Yep.
According to the Mayan calendar we only have 4 years left as of today. (Thier calendar ends 21 Dec 2012).

Now a lot of egghead buzz killers say something bad is gonna happen that day. Like REALLY bad. Like all the worst parts of The Bible type bad.

But fear not! I feel the Mayans ended thier calendar on that day because they ran out of pictures of pretty girls in bikinis to put on said calendar.

Disscuss.

OH! The 'velcro' part of the title... just trying to get your attention.

I read about the Mayans and the end of their calendar, and possibly the world, years back...before the MS diagnosis and pretty much thought "meh!" about the whole thing.

Now, since the MS diagnosis, I've pretty much been thinking, "Great! Just 'x' years of this MS crap to go, and then I can sit back and watch the Apocalypse.".

Hopefully I wont have Optic Neuritis that week.