Slightly topical

[malcubed]

'By "deciphering" the Book of Revelations, a minister in Lochau--in what is now East Germany--proclaimed that the world would end on October 18, 1533. When it didn't happen, the minister--a Michael Stiftel--was given a thrashing by the townspeople.'

--Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts

Comments

[mcghiever]

Just a head's up for next time, people: the success rate for predicting the apocalypse/rapture/etc, no matter how adamant the predictor, how numerous the followers, or how careful the calculations, is exactly 0%.

[malcubed]

I really really really love that every time someone predicts the apocalypse and it doesn't happen, they always immediately go, "Oh I got THE MATH wrong." Because your first mistake was forgetting to carry the one. Sure.