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Question for readers...

So has the world ended yet?

I'm not sure, and no-one has called to tell me if it has.

But if the world did end, I guess no-one would be there to call and tell me.

So if the world does end, how will I know?

And do I still have to come in to work?

Man, I'm confused.
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Sue said…
I am so sick of hearing about this. Today at school...there were heaps of kids who were freaked out believing it was going to happen! I just said to them that some fairly clever people were conducting these test and I am sure that they were smart enough to know that they were not going to cause the end of the world by doing them. When that did not satisfy them...I just told them the tests had been done and NOTHING had happened and then they were happy! Some people will believe anything!
10 September 2008 at 17:10
USelaine said…
Something the matter? Guess not.
10 September 2008 at 18:40
Julie said…
Golly that team leader, Lyn Evans, is all spunk: "There it is!", he said. Reminds me of when Dame Joan returned to sing in the new Opera House and the announcer (quaint term, yes? The ABC only had announcers in those days), John West, said "She enters. She sings." I was so excited by that I forgot to listen to her warble ...
10 September 2008 at 21:45
Anonymous said…
What, Kris, you haven't been sucked into the black hole yet?! Didn't you hear a thing that went bang in the night?

Did you ever read Bernard Malamud's _God's Grace_?

Don't tell anyone, but... Here in my secluded quiet village in the hills sometimes I wake up in the morning and if I miss the hourly newscast, I think, gee, the world could have ended overnight and I'd never know it. :)
10 September 2008 at 22:19
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