Noun. - A potentially world-ending event strongly hyped by the media during a short period of time, then forgotten by the public after the world, evidently, does not end. Soon enough it will be followed by a new catastrophe in-the-making. These events often resonate with the public due to widespread popular feelings, such as Nature getting back at Man, scientists going too far, a sign of the End Times, or simply terrorists.
The most successful example in recent times is Maya fever, which has snowballed into an international cultural phenomenon and lasted for several years.
The most successful example in recent times is Maya fever, which has snowballed into an international cultural phenomenon and lasted for several years.
Hey, wasn't the BP oil spill going to destroy the world because of the methane bubble ready to explode under the Gulf of Mexico? Oh, nevermind.
The current Apocalypse of the month is the new large hadron collider at CERN, which some believe may create a black hole. Of course, this is patently ridiculous.
The current Apocalypse of the month is the new large hadron collider at CERN, which some believe may create a black hole. Of course, this is patently ridiculous.
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2) The day all colons shall be brought to the light
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2) The day all colons shall be brought to the light
3) The book of painal revelations
4) Ron Goodwin's love life
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They bark in their deep bassety voices, mark their territory with pissin' and scratchin', and move on.
Their names are Grumpy, Dopey, Sleepy and Snuffles.
They bark in their deep bassety voices, mark their territory with pissin' and scratchin', and move on.
Their names are Grumpy, Dopey, Sleepy and Snuffles.
News reports mention the appearance of the four basset hounds of the apocalypse at the Johnstown Flood.
Their deep bassety voices instilled great fear.
Their deep bassety voices instilled great fear.
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Get the Pussy Apocalypse mug.The contrapositive relationship between aesthetic elements (lines) and aesthetic attributes (colors, space) in which human beings are pawns.
Schematized in Goethe's Theory of Colors.
Schematized in Goethe's Theory of Colors.
Goethe conjectured that colors and spaces (implicit lines) are contraposed to EXplicit lines in linear time and this contraposition is only manifested to human beings as cultural conflict.
Thus human beings are not agentic actors in this conflict but are FUNCTIONS in the apocalypse.
Thus human beings are not agentic actors in this conflict but are FUNCTIONS in the apocalypse.
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