A grumpy old man who has a talk show on the radio. He has predicted the Rapture--Judgement Day--at least 3 times, most recently on May 21st, and each time has been quite a let-down. His most recent reason was "because of the gays".

His "rapture" predictions are often preceded by a large-scale campaign to advertise the date with posters that say things such as "Save the Date! Judgement Day, May 21st: The Bible Guarantees It!"
Reasonable Christians often ask in response to these predictions, "if God's word is not to be interpreted by humans, then aren't all these predictions rather blasphemic?"

Reasonable people who may or may not be Christian often ask "why would anyone even believe this in the first place? He just picked an arbitrary date, there's no scientific proof at all. I see no reason to freak out."
Some people freak out anyway, because they're either idiots or they're hipsters and they're doing it ironically.
Guy 1: Dude are you coming to my barbecue tomorrow?
Guy 2: Why are you having a barbecue?
Guy 1: To celebrate Harold Camping's most recent failure to predict the end of the world.
Guy 2: Oh yeah sure, i'll come. Will there be beer?
Guy 1: Of course man, otherwise it wouldn't be a not-the-end-of-the-world barbecue.
by Cynics101 May 21, 2011
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1. A false prophet who predicted that the Rapture would occur on May 21, 2011. 2. Someone who believes numerology can be used in mathematical proofs.
1. Harold Camping falsely predicted the date of the Rapture several other times, prior to the May 11th instance. 1994 is the most frequently cited example, but there are others. 2. Harold Camping's "evidence" consisted of two numerological ramblings, which he called mathematical demonstrations.
by Asorbus May 25, 2011
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Some nitshit who fucks with his bible at night.
He predicted that we would all suddenly die on the 21st may 2011 by spouting soime mathical mumbo-jumbo
Harold Camping: We will all die because God is bored.
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Harold Camping is when you are going camping, have everything planned and purchased, and your car gassed up. Only, you never actually go.
My parents told me we were going camping and I was so pumped. Too bad what they really meant was "Harold Camping!" We just sat in the car for a while and then went back inside. Lame!
by Dr. Ewnaj May 24, 2011
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To claim something is going to happen, then when it doesn't happen, just change the date and watch it not happen again. Named after the radio preacher who predicted the world would end on May 21, 2011 only to change it to October 21 later. Naturally nothing happened either time.
Guy 1: Okay I know I was wrong about zombies rising from their graves last night, so I went back to the rock where I first saw the prediction and realized it said May 16 not Mar. 16.

Guy 2: Dude just stop it. Do you know how badly you're Harold Camping right now?
by Gaaraofthedamned December 28, 2011
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Where you tell everyone you're going on a really awesome camping trip that never happens.
Dude! How was Bonnarroo?" "Got arrested on the way down, ended up just Harold Camping.
by drunkmelgibson May 24, 2011
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an old piece of shit that has a lot of money because he convinced people that he knows when the world is going to end. he has been wrong on all predictions, and there are more to come in the future.
Hey, i wonder when Harold Camping is going to give up on predicting the end of the world. Fourth times a charm?
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