Only 2 weeks left until the end of the world! Dec 21, 2012

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Just wanted to set the record straight with people that actually think that Twinkies will last forever... and eat them.

Someone paid $60 for a box of them 2 weeks ago on Ebay.

Me, I am waiting for that ride in the Mercury. I was living in San Diego when Hale-Bopp came around, and here in Oregon when the Rajnish's had that place in eastern Oregon, and my x-x-x-x-x-x-x-GF wanted me to go visit Jim Jones' place in Guyana when I was with her in Central America. She also wanted me to go to Nicaragua after the government was overthrown there, but I declined on both. I had enough problems in southern Mexico and El Salvador being a gringo and having M-16s shoved in my face.

Some people do actually get carried away with this stuff. My dad was in NYC when the War of the Worlds was on the radio, and he said people went stark raving mad. Even though it was advertized to be a hoax long in advance. On the flip side I was in Southern California during the Rodney King riots. One minute a guy was dragged from his truck and hit in the head with a garbage disposal on the news, and the next thing they were looting and burning in East San Diego and South Central LA. I bought the majority of my guns after living through that inferno. Things can and do go to absolute shyte in about 20 minutes...
 
As would have been the Mayans. That calendar of theirs, well they borrowed it and embellished it, was based on day and night and the movement of the Sun. First guys to figure out a 365 day year in fact.

Um, I thought that the ancient Egyptians had already figured this out long before the Mayans. Their civil calendar was based on a 365 day year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sothic_cycle
 
Forget to use :p, and everyone gets so serious!

Guess I'll have to buy another freezer or 3 to keep my supply from going bad ;)

(Just to set the record straight, I've never eaten a twinkie)

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We had a package of Twinkies on top of a cabinet at work. It had to be up there for at least 5-7 years. When we moved offices and discovered the Twinkie package it was dusty, but otherwise hard to tell from the product on the grocer's shelf.
 
My biggest fear, is that tons of people will buy into this and go bat sheet crazy on the 21st.

Making work very, very busy for me.
 
That is Urban Legend. Actually Twinkies expire pretty quickly... and why the price is dropping so fast on Ebay. This is from Wikipedia:

Shelf life
A common urban legend claims that Twinkies have an infinite shelf life or can last unspoiled for a relatively long time of ten, fifty, or one hundred years due to chemicals used in production.[15] This urban legend is false, although Twinkies can last a relatively long time (25 days or more) because they are made without unstabilized dairy products and thus spoil more slowly than most bakery items.[16] In reality, Twinkies are on the shelf for a short time; a company executive told the New York Times in 2000 that the "Twinkie is on the shelf no more than 7 to 10 days."[17]

Here's one that has been around since 1976 . . . no mold . . . but I don't think I would dare eat it based on the condition.

http://www.wmtw.com/news/maine/Gold...time/-/8792012/17473566/-/raesj9/-/index.html
 
My biggest fear, is that tons of people will buy into this and go bat sheet crazy on the 21st.

Making work very, very busy for me.

Time to make the Purple Kool-Aid!
 
The world is ending? OK, the following people can kiss my ass.......
 
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seems the Mayans have, fairly accurately, predicted the end of The Jersey Shore TV program.....not to shabby for a people who had no TV. Kudos to the Mayans. I'm more worried about the new beginning that follows....what if it signals the rise of "socks and sandals are ok"?? or "you can mix polak dots with plaids"?? Be afraid, be very afraid.
 
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I might have to go back to Hawaii so that I can dance around a fire on the beach naked.
 
I'll be celebrating the Solstice and the (slow) return of the Sun. Maybe a nice bonfire & good food & drink with some friends.

My husband and I will be celebrating Yule, or the solstice as well!

I will be making a special dinner- roasted leg of lamb with root vegetables and mincemeat pies. I am the 3rd generation of Wiccans in my family, please don't think anything less of me - It's just another religion, not the stupid stuff seen in movies and on True Blood :) I've always been the "keeper of the fire" hence my avatar and the joys of my wood stove!
 
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...I am the 3rd generation of Wiccans in my family, please don't think anything less of me...

The only people I would think less of are the people who would think less of you because of your beliefs. Hell with them. Enjoy the season...however you choose to celebrate it. Rick
 
Guy on the radio brought up a good point today. The Mayan long count calendar doesn't have leap years. So by the Gregorian calendar translation the world has already ended. >>
 
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Thanks Rick! Nice quote in your signature too :)

"Witchcraft & superstition will always prevail over logic & reason"

I've studied religions out of curiosity and love the traditions and rituals of it all, the why we do what we do and how it all got started just fascinates me. Hum...maybe I should start a new thread on everyone's holiday traditions :)
 
The world is ending? OK, the following people can kiss my ass.......

You sir, made me spit perfectly good beer out in laughter.

I'm on duty that day. I think i'll take my patrol boat out and float in the middle of the Columbia, far away from the crazies
 
Here we go again. They had a great spot on this topic on our local jazz station today:

 
I might have to go back to Hawaii so that I can dance around a fire on the beach naked.

You can go down to Steilacoom and dance nekked on the beach... of course you might be arrested... or freeze to death in this foggy drizzle weather.
 
My husband and I will be celebrating Yule, or the solstice as well!

I will be making a special dinner- roasted leg of lamb with root vegetables and mincemeat pies. I am the 3rd generation of Wiccans in my family, please don't think anything less of me - It's just another religion, not the stupid stuff seen in movies and on True Blood :) I've always been the "keeper of the fire" hence my avatar and the joys of my wood stove!

Leg of Lamb? Good eats that. Too bad you are on the other side of the continent from me. My ex-SIL is a Wiccan up in Vermont. I am descended from a witch tried in Fairfield, CT in the 17th century, as well as the judge at that trial, most of the witnesses, and the town clergy. I am also descended from many founding Quakers/Friends in the Bucks, Co. area of PA. We must me shirt-tail cousins. My ex (and her sister) are 8th cousins to me.
 
I heard the end of days occurs when
Scotty Overkill's wood pile topples over . ..


No, the real end of the world occurs when Scotty starts believing in the actual facts about the beginning of the world...
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I thought 12/12 was the day.......here I was already breathing a sigh of relief.
 
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Leg of Lamb? Good eats that. Too bad you are on the other side of the continent from me. My ex-SIL is a Wiccan up in Vermont. I am descended from a witch tried in Fairfield, CT in the 17th century, as well as the judge at that trial, most of the witnesses, and the town clergy. I am also descended from many founding Quakers/Friends in the Bucks, Co. area of PA. We must me shirt-tail cousins. My ex (and her sister) are 8th cousins to me.
Hah! I LIVE in Bucks County, PA and so do my Parents and who's left of my grandparents! We may be related after all :)
 
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Hah! I LIVE in Bucks County, PA and so do my Parents and who's left of my grandparents! We may be related after all :)

Reading, Hazelton, Latimer, Warrington, Perkasie....all the stomping grounds of parts of my family before and even now......

Quakertown is where I got all my stoves in the early days...lots of stove history around there.

When I lived there I found out they don't call it "Bucks" county for nothing......
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