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Are you ready for the Viking Apocalypse? Norse myth predicts world will end this Saturday
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 22:33 EST, 18 February 2014 | Nathan Klein

Posted on 02/19/2014 1:33:47 AM PST by Olog-hai

We’ve survived the Mayan apocalypse and Y2K, but be afraid—the end of the world is coming…again.

This time it’s the Viking apocalypse that is allegedly set to destroy Earth, with Norse mythology claiming the planet will split open and unleash the inhabitants of Hel on February 22.

According to the Vikings, Ragnarök is a series of events including the final predicted battle that results in the death of a number of major gods, the occurrence of various natural disasters and the subsequent submersion of the world in water. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Tax-chick

first thread to this a.m. The admin mod is on it!


21 posted on 02/19/2014 4:47:17 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Admin Moderator
That photo is one of my favourites.

What am I...chopped liver??!!?

22 posted on 02/19/2014 4:48:33 AM PST by Focault's Pendulum (I live in NJ....' Nuff said!)
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To: no-to-illegals

Making sure Vikings and kittehs are treated appropriately.


23 posted on 02/19/2014 4:51:43 AM PST by Tax-chick (The future is not going to take us seriously.)
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To: Tax-chick

Amen ... That admin mod is everywhere. Thank Goodness!!!


24 posted on 02/19/2014 4:54:10 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Olog-hai


25 posted on 02/19/2014 4:56:06 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Olog-hai

I know how to kill a walker but how does one kill a viking?


26 posted on 02/19/2014 4:57:41 AM PST by McGruff (Every night has it's dawn.)
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To: JoeProBono

Joe, am seeing white out conditions?!?


27 posted on 02/19/2014 4:59:02 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: JoeProBono

Too much snow! Even has migrated to the forum board.


28 posted on 02/19/2014 5:04:40 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Olog-hai

Just in time.


29 posted on 02/19/2014 5:58:36 AM PST by tomkat (keeps checking in, hoping to see that ONE headline . . .)
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To: Olog-hai

Are you ready for the Viking Apocalypse? Norse myth predicts world will end this Saturday

Will it include the hot Viking Babes?


30 posted on 02/19/2014 6:23:50 AM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Olog-hai

There is nothing in the old Sagas giving a specific date.


31 posted on 02/19/2014 6:29:08 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: Tax-chick
Kinda goofy. That big dude, first picture in source article, has an identical copy of my Son's plastic Mjöllnir.

Also...

Hasn't happened. Won't until the next Ice Age kicks in. Probably about another thousand years.

32 posted on 02/19/2014 6:34:17 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: COBOL2Java

Hands off... She’s mine. Just as soon as my Wife gives me permission at least...

:-)


33 posted on 02/19/2014 6:35:21 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: Olog-hai
"The wolf Skoll would then devour the sun, and his brother Hati would eat the moon, causing stars to fall out of the sky and the Earth subjected to tremendous earthquakes."

Dude, we are sooo screwed...

34 posted on 02/19/2014 6:45:21 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: Olog-hai

"Oh thank God"
35 posted on 02/19/2014 6:49:56 AM PST by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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To: Olog-hai

“When I was but a child, my aged grandmother told me a story from the old country, which contained an ancient warning, ‘...for you see, it is said that when Hell is full, the dead shall walk the earth, smelling very bad and taking all of the better minimum wage jobs, which will raise the inflation rate unsupported by increased consumerism; which, while having a positive effect on the balance of trade, may impact the renoberation of long-term bond yields’.”

— Bulwer-Lytton contest entry.


36 posted on 02/19/2014 7:00:12 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: Dead Corpse
Probably about another thousand years.

Oh, darn. I have too much to do this weekend and I was hoping to get out of it.

37 posted on 02/19/2014 7:07:20 AM PST by Tax-chick (The future is not going to take us seriously.)
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To: Tax-chick

Sorry about that.

On a brighter note, anything big enough to “swallow the Sun”, we’ll see coming from a long way off...

:-)


38 posted on 02/19/2014 7:14:09 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: Dead Corpse

Good point. I won’t worry about it until you say we should.


39 posted on 02/19/2014 7:35:02 AM PST by Tax-chick (The future is not going to take us seriously.)
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To: Olog-hai
I have cases of Corned Beef Hash and Jim Beam plus lots of books to read...

I'm ready...

40 posted on 02/19/2014 7:36:28 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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