2012-05-09 [Nekko fox]:

He shoulda used Mentos!

2012-05-13 [pixie elf]: The earliest known Mayan calendar has been found in an ancient house in Guatemala and it offers no hint that the world's end is imminent, researchers said Thursday.

Rather, the painted room in the residential complex at Xultun was likely the place where the town scribe kept records, scrawling computations on the walls in an effort to find "harmony between sky events and sacred rituals," said the study in the journal Science.

The hieroglyphs date back to the ninth century, making them hundreds of years older than the calendars in the Maya Codices, which were recorded in bark-paper books from 1300 to 1521.

Some appear to be the 365-day solar calendar, the 584-day cycle of the planet Venus and the 780-day cycle of Mars, said archaeologist William Saturno of Boston University, who led the exploration and excavation.

According to Saturno, the writing looks like someone's attempt to sort out a very long math problem, as if on a blackboard.

"For the first time we get to see what may be actual records kept by a scribe, whose job was to be official record keeper of a Maya community," Saturno said.

"The ancient Maya predicted the world would continue, that 7,000 years from now, things would be exactly like this," he added.

"We keep looking for endings. The Maya were looking for a guarantee that nothing would change. It's an entirely different mindset."

Furthermore, there is no sign that the much-hyped myth that the Mayan calendar would end in 2012, and with it the world, has any bearing in reality.

All that ended in 2012 was one of its calendar cycles, said co-author Anthony Aveni, professor of astronomy and anthropology at Colgate University.

"It's like the odometer of a car, with the Maya calendar rolling over from the 120,000s to 130,000," said Aveni.

"The car gets a step closer to the junkyard as the numbers turn over; the Maya just start over," he added.

"The most exciting point is that we now see that the Maya were making such computations hundreds of years -- and in places other than books -- before they recorded them in the Codices."

Even though the 12-square mile (31-square kilometer) site of Xultun, deep in a rainforest where tens of thousands of people once lived, was first discovered about 100 years ago, the house structure where the calendar is drawn on the walls was spotted in 2010.

Researchers say careful excavations have revealed that the paintings inside -- including some of human figures wearing feather head-dresses -- show the first examples of Mayan art on a house interior.

"It's weird that the Xultun finds exist at all," Saturno said. "Such writings and artwork on walls don't preserve well in the Maya lowlands, especially in a house buried only a meter (three feet) below the surface."


All I had to say was: Your point being???

2012-05-13 [Nekko fox]: Their point was that Hitler turned into a zombie and it's all Jesus' fault.

2012-05-13 Hitler: NEIN! NEIN! NEIN! NEIN! NEIN!

DO NOT LISTEN TO ZEE FOX! IT TELLS LIES!

ACHTUNG! WIENERSCHNITZEL! VOLKSWAGON! OTHER GERMAN WORDS!

2012-05-13 [Mortified Penguin]: Alright, Hitler. You're gonna need to CALM THE FUCK DOWN. *slaps sammie with a glove covered in razor blades that isn't a glove, but actually a pile of razor blades*

Now... CALMLY explain... Where the HELL is my SANDWICH? I LEFT IT RIGHT HERE IN MY MOUTH TWO YEARS AGO.

2012-05-13 [Nekko fox]: Why don't you ask....

THOSE SANDWICH STEALERS OVER AT TABLE SIX!?!

*two cockroaches skitter about in the ancient scraps left by the skeletal patrons nestled in the booth*

2012-05-14 [Susie-Q]: if that's an image of when jesus walked on water then where are the other guys that were in the boat with him? after all, only one tried to walk with him.

2012-05-14 [Nekko fox]: Jesus drowned them in an attempt to hide his terrible halitosis.

2012-05-14 [Mortified Penguin]: Luckily, Jesus did eventually succeed in trying to his terrible halitosis.

2012-05-14 [Avaz]: *Random verbs insert themselves into other people's conversations.*

2012-05-14 [Nekko fox]: *Observation made to foment unrest*

2012-05-15 Hitler the Grammer Nazi: *peeks into the Diner, looks suspiciously around, but sees nothing out of place. For now.*

2012-05-15 [Nekko fox]: Their right you know. In fact, your on the right track, just look over they're. There having some fun right now, using you're video game system as we speak.

2012-05-15 [Mortified Penguin]: HEY, YOU ADDED A VERB, CHEATER.

2012-05-15 [Nekko fox]: Yeah, well, you've used adjectives before, so it's only fair!

2012-05-15 [Mortified Penguin]: The hell I have. Name one time.

2012-05-15 [Nekko fox]: Yesterday! I saw it! I saw you adjective all over the place!

2012-05-15 [Dovahkiin]: enough!!! you two take it outside!! *a man stands up to protest* shut it you fucking bronie!! *shoots him in the face*

2012-05-15 [Nekko fox]: *The brony's head explodes into confetti and love-fluff. It promptly combusts and is quickly extinguished by a drowning hobo. Physics be damned*

2012-05-16 [Dovahkiin]: *watches the homo, i mean hobo humping, i mean extinguishing the cum covered, i mean combusted remains of the butt sex partner (oh hell, what the fuck?)*

2012-05-16 [Nekko fox]: *Me watches the linguistic failings of mankind*