If you listen to Internet crazies (don’t do it … except for me, of course), today will be the end of the world, thanks to the planet Nibiru. I don’t think it’s going to happen, but if it does, we can always prevail upon these guys, at least for a few laughs.
Nope, this is all mine. Check with the Rottweiler down the street. Image found on Pinterest.
And there was no cat food! The horror! Image found on Funny Cats.
No. 2 on the list of dumb things to do. No. 1 involves a dotard. Image found on Pinterest.
Surely it’s not too late … Image found on MemeCenter.
He knows something … Image found on imgflip.
Most adorable apocalypse ever. Image found on Pinterest.
OK, that one’s actually kinda creepy. Image found on Twitter.
Now if they start napping together, we’re screwed. Image found on Speak of the Devil.
Aaaannndd we’re screwed. Image found on Bored Panda.
Here, this will make you feel better. GIF found on Tenor.
When Prophecy Fails, a classic, 1957, study of what end-of-the-world cult members do when the world doesn’t end (Damn!) found they tended to increase their proselytizing, getting new members on the basis of the rescheduled end of the world. Many years later, a review of the research field notes suggests that once the participating researchers (pretending to be cult members) reached their conclusion about renewed proselytization, they sometimes would be quick to suggest, “Let’s get some new members.”
There was always supposed to be a catastrophic earthquake on the New Madrid fault line when I was at ASU, and my favorite poli-sci professor delighted in pointing out that it hadn’t happened, and the person who predicted it always ended up saying he miscalculated but it was really, REALLY gonna happen in a year. 🤔
The whole time I was there, I only felt tremors two or three times at most. Only freaked me out when I was on a balcony in the fine arts building waiting for class.
When I lived in the SF Bay Area, I made a prediction that wound up in the SF Chronicle: There would be a massive earthquake along the San Andreas fault and everything to the East would slide into the Atlantic.
Several years ago, Walter Jon Williams wrote a book titled “The Rift” about what might happen if there was a really huge earthquake on the New Madrid fault line in contemporary times. If you like disaster novels about earthquakes and other natural disasters, I recommend that you read this book.
I’ll have to track it down. One of my professors studied the fault, and would freak students out with his description of what would happen if there really were a major quake there … Pretty much wading in soup.
That cat in the Doomsday Preppers: Kitty Edition picture is definitely ready with all of those cans of cat food. It won’t have to catch its own food. Instead, I guess the cat expects its human servant to open the cans and feed it.
I have known and seen my cats catch rats and mice and birds. Then the cat would eat them and the cat wouldn’t share them with me. As a matter of fact, the cat growled at me and told me to stay away–this is mine and I am not going to share.
That was probably a good idea not to take Luke up on his offer to share his food with him. You would need to cook it first and he would think you were ruining it by cooking it.
I'm a retiree in his seventies. That may not be significant to many, since there is a bunch of us Baby Boomers around. However, in the year 2,000, when I received a diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma, I expected to be dead in three to five years.
When Prophecy Fails, a classic, 1957, study of what end-of-the-world cult members do when the world doesn’t end (Damn!) found they tended to increase their proselytizing, getting new members on the basis of the rescheduled end of the world. Many years later, a review of the research field notes suggests that once the participating researchers (pretending to be cult members) reached their conclusion about renewed proselytization, they sometimes would be quick to suggest, “Let’s get some new members.”
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There was always supposed to be a catastrophic earthquake on the New Madrid fault line when I was at ASU, and my favorite poli-sci professor delighted in pointing out that it hadn’t happened, and the person who predicted it always ended up saying he miscalculated but it was really, REALLY gonna happen in a year. 🤔
The whole time I was there, I only felt tremors two or three times at most. Only freaked me out when I was on a balcony in the fine arts building waiting for class.
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When I lived in the SF Bay Area, I made a prediction that wound up in the SF Chronicle: There would be a massive earthquake along the San Andreas fault and everything to the East would slide into the Atlantic.
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Ha!
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“It’s not my fault.” said the earthquake.
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Obviously Hillary is to blame … The fault is hers. 😋
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Several years ago, Walter Jon Williams wrote a book titled “The Rift” about what might happen if there was a really huge earthquake on the New Madrid fault line in contemporary times. If you like disaster novels about earthquakes and other natural disasters, I recommend that you read this book.
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I’ll have to track it down. One of my professors studied the fault, and would freak students out with his description of what would happen if there really were a major quake there … Pretty much wading in soup.
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I found “The Rift” by Williams at the Laman Library here in North Little Rock in the fiction section.
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Thank you!
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I love these memes, especially the “cute apocalypse.” I’m chin deep in my portfolio right now and wouldn’t mind a kitten apocalypse.
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The kitten apocalypse won’t be televized … All the camera guys will be busy playing with the kittens. 🐈
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Cuteness is the secret weapon of kittens.
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If the tiny boopable nose weren’t enough, you have the itty-bitty paws, big eyes, and squeaky little mew. No one with a soul can be immune to that.
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That cat in the Doomsday Preppers: Kitty Edition picture is definitely ready with all of those cans of cat food. It won’t have to catch its own food. Instead, I guess the cat expects its human servant to open the cans and feed it.
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Hope it doesn’t end up like that Twilight Zone episode … All those cans (books) and no can opener (glasses). 🙀
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I have known and seen my cats catch rats and mice and birds. Then the cat would eat them and the cat wouldn’t share them with me. As a matter of fact, the cat growled at me and told me to stay away–this is mine and I am not going to share.
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Luke tried to share with me a few times. I declined. Fairly sure my IBS wouldn’t allow me to partake. 🐭🤢
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That was probably a good idea not to take Luke up on his offer to share his food with him. You would need to cook it first and he would think you were ruining it by cooking it.
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Offending him would have been a bad idea.
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My cats never seemed to understand why I had to ruin perfectly good meat by cooking it before I ate it.
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It’s anarchy in their eyes. 🙀
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You must remember that they are not actually cats. Instead, they are fur-coated appetites disguised as cats.
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