MetaChat - The end is nigh!

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23 June 2008

The end is nigh! →[More:] Ugh. It is soooooooo gross outside. It almost looks like we're in the middle of an eclipse. The light is orange and filtered, the air smells of smoke. Sore throat, phlegmy lungs.

So, we've had fire and flood around here in the past week.

I say we need some pestilence too. Who's with me?

post by: mudpuppie at: 18:04 | 11 comments

[Oh, by "around here," I meant Metachat. It hasn't rained here in three months or something.]

posted by mudpuppie 23 June | 18:06

I say you need marshmallows. Stick a bunch of coat-hangar wires in your yard, each with a marshmallow on the end, and wait.

Dessert and apocalypse, all in one!

posted by BoringPostcards 23 June | 18:06

I was thinking about this the other day. I fear that future generations, if they exist, will look back and think, "Why the hell didn't those people do something about it?"

But I'm not quite sure even what the "it" is, let alone what the "something" might be. I just get a vague unsettled feeling from time to time that this is what the end might look like.

posted by occhiblu 23 June | 18:11

If it will help, y'all are welcome to the multitude of mosquitos that breed in our neighbor's pond and then spend the rest of their lives in our backyard, waiting to feast upon us whenever we venture out there to water the tomatoes.

No need to thank me. I'm just doing my part.

posted by bmarkey 23 June | 18:19

What about those ants that everyone posted about a while ago? Those might count as pestilence.

posted by occhiblu 23 June | 18:21

That's true. Also, rats seem to be in fashion.

We're all going to die.

posted by mudpuppie 23 June | 18:35

Oh wait, I forgot.

Babies. Babies are the new rats.

We're all going to die.

posted by mudpuppie 23 June | 18:36

No, no, no. Mice are the new frogs. And it's raining mice here in NYC. I'll see if I can't get the governor to send some over your way.

posted by brina 23 June | 19:21

yeah pups, I felt the same thing today biking around. I haven't paid attention to the news lately but I was wondering why the air felt smoggy. yuck. I've got some other weird allergy going on now and this isn't helping.

posted by special-k 23 June | 21:49

The local paper wants me for a photo op tomorrow. Can we please end the world before Wednesday's paper comes out?

Pretty please?

posted by danf 23 June | 22:08

The fires have started again here, too - one of the reasons I dread summer.

posted by taz 24 June | 00:18

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