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2012 is it. The year the Oreo turns 100 years old. The Mayans must've known this, hence the reason their calendar predicts its shape. To celebrate, Nabisco should make a Mayan calendar Oreo for mass consumption and bury a few in strange pyramid-shaped boxes somewhere in a jungle...
Calendar in question...
http://www.toptenz..../mayan-calendar.jpg Just add milk... [RayfordSteele, Mar 16 2012, last modified May 14 2015]
Oreo
https://www.google....jT87ACNCbtwef2f3wBw Maybe if we twist it the right way, it'll tell us the future. [RayfordSteele, Mar 16 2012]
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The Stone Of The Fifth Sun is Aztec, but i know what you mean. Also, they counted in vigesimal, so a hundredth anniversary wouldn't be so significant to them. |
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Maybe they worshipped Oreos? |
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Oreos was presumably some kind of Greek god? |
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Does anyone know where this December 21st bull$#!+ came
from? I thought the Mayan calandar ended sometime in the
summer. |
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There's more than one calendar and they phase in and out with
each other. |
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My theory is that they were just planning to turn the calendar over and start again! Oreos for all!! |
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I kind of figure they thought that there wasn't much point
in calculating it more than a couple thousand years in
advance and planned to update it as needed. |
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Sortof like our approach to COBOL and Y2k. |
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There are inscriptions mentioning dates thousands of years after
today and many powers of twenty above the few millenia
covered by the bottom few places of the Long Count. I seem to
remember it's twenty-odd aeons long altogether. |
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My Fuzzy Kittens calendar shows time ending on December 31st. It just ends ... there's nothing after that. Not even kittens. [+] |
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That's some good news, at least. |
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Has anyone tried dunking a Pre-Columbian calendar stone in a mug of hot tea ? |
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//Does anyone know where this December 21st bull$#!+
came from? I thought the Mayan calandar ended sometime
in the summer.// |
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That IS summer, mate. [+] for the post and for
[baconbrain]'s kitten calendar anno. |
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//That IS summer, mate// in the southern hemisphere, where, by a bizarre coincidence, the Mayans (and the Aztecs) lived. In particular, it's close to the summer solstice. |
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Right... Sorry, didn't mean to be so geocentric. |
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// in the southern hemisphere, where, by a bizarre coincidence, the Mayans (and the Aztecs) lived. // |
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That is bizarre. All my maps show the Yucatan (and Mexico City) about at 20 degrees north. |
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Sorry, didn't mean to be so geoignorant. |
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President Kennedy did the same thing. I think it was Kennedy. I am so presignorant. |
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No, JFK was confectionignorant, which forunately is a
condition that will never afflict any of us. |
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//presignorant// That's all right, we're all presscient in hindsight. |
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