h a l f b a k e r yA hive of inactivity
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, random
news, help, about, links, report a problem
browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
register,
|
|
|
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]
[link]
|
| |
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. |
|
| |
Maybe they worshipped Oreos? |
|
| |
Oreos was presumably some kind of Greek god? |
|
| |
Does anyone know where this December 21st bull$#!+ came
from? I thought the Mayan calandar ended sometime in the
summer. |
|
| |
There's more than one calendar and they phase in and out with
each other. |
|
| |
My theory is that they were just planning to turn the calendar over and start again! Oreos for all!! |
|
| |
I kind of figure they thought that there wasn't much point
in calculating it more than a couple thousand years in
advance and planned to update it as needed. |
|
| |
Sortof like our approach to COBOL and Y2k. |
|
| |
There are inscriptions mentioning dates thousands of years after
today and many powers of twenty above the few millenia
covered by the bottom few places of the Long Count. I seem to
remember it's twenty-odd aeons long altogether. |
|
| |
My Fuzzy Kittens calendar shows time ending on December 31st. It just ends ... there's nothing after that. Not even kittens. [+] |
|
| |
That's some good news, at least. |
|
| |
Has anyone tried dunking a Pre-Columbian calendar stone in a mug of hot tea ? |
|
| |
//Does anyone know where this December 21st bull$#!+
came from? I thought the Mayan calandar ended sometime
in the summer.// |
|
| |
That IS summer, mate. [+] for the post and for
[baconbrain]'s kitten calendar anno. |
|
| |
//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. |
|
| |
Right... Sorry, didn't mean to be so geocentric. |
|
| |
// in the southern hemisphere, where, by a bizarre coincidence, the Mayans (and the Aztecs) lived. // |
|
| |
That is bizarre. All my maps show the Yucatan (and Mexico City) about at 20 degrees north. |
|
| |
Sorry, didn't mean to be so geoignorant. |
|
| |
President Kennedy did the same thing. I think it was Kennedy. I am so presignorant. |
|
| |
No, JFK was confectionignorant, which forunately is a
condition that will never afflict any of us. |
|
| |
//presignorant// That's all right, we're all presscient in hindsight. |
|
| |