"Eric Baber" > wrote in message
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> "Lanny Chambers" > wrote in message
> ...
>> In article >,
>> pws > wrote:
>>
>>> It sounds to me like you cheaped out on buying the ox.
>>
>> In my defense: after my earlier livestock purchases, the car maintenance
>> budget was somewhat depleted for the quarter. Still, I kept scanning
>> farmanimals.ebay.com for oxen, but I kept getting outbid by a cult of
>> fundamentalist Babylonian sodbusters from Kansas. *sigh*
>
> This reminds me of a hilarious episode that happened to me about a year
> ago. I was on holiday on a small Greek island. One day a whole bunch of
> people in white descended on the island, all Americans (myself and my
> friends with whom I was there are from the UK). It transpired that they
> were members of some cult or other who were convinced that Armageddon was
> to take place on one of the days we were there, and the only place in the
> whole world that would survive was this particular island. They holed
> themselves up in a hotel they'd group-booked, then reappeared the night
> before the Big Day and went wandering around the town. Needless to say,
> Armageddon didn't actually take place. What we wanted to know was:
>
> - How did they get back home? One would assume they got one-way tickets.
> - Once they got home (if indeed they did), did they have anything left to
> go back to? Or had they told their bosses to shove it, sold the house and
> spent all the money on one hell of a party?
> - What DID they get up to in that hotel in the few days they disappeared
> from view??!!
>
> All I can say is keep scanning farmanimals.ebay.com, Lanny, something's
> bound to turn up sooner or later.
>
> Eric
>
I'm guessing that the world as they knew it, did, infact, end for them.