BREAKING NEWS: Scholars retract Mayan Doomsday claim, forgot to look at other side of tablet.

[Puzzledtraveller]

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.

PT

[WilliamPitt]

1. THIS vvvvvvv

[Viking12]

2. Does the other side look like this

[rivegauche]

5. hahah!! that cracks me up. nt

[graham4anything]

3. it is 12-21-2012 in part of the world already. So obviously they lied

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. That's the half of the world which doesn't break off and fall into the sun. Joke's on us!

[barbtries]

8. oh no you mean you haven't seen this

[barbtries]

6. i have to admit

being pretty curious about how all the people who actually thought the world would be ending will react when they find themselves alive on the other side of the 21st.

[libdem4life]

7. Well, gotta admit it has a bit more entertainment value and cultural color than Y2K.

(thanks for the Oreo!)

[BainsBane]

9. I think scholars know that's actually an Aztec calendar

And not Mayan at all. Moreover, the Aztecs had a cyclical view of time, not linear. So, from what I know, that meant time didn't end, unless the sun fell from the sky and brought about the nd of the world.

Cortez appeared in Mexico on 1 Reed, supposedly the same year Quetzalcoatl had fled long before. So the years repeat rather than ending.

[Teamster Jeff]

10. LOL Very Good