It seems the Mayans were wrong. The world will keep traveling around the sun, or the sun around the world if you're a Fundamentalist. But this most recent apocalypse averted got me to ruminating, as is my want, about New Year's Eve and all the weight that is arbitrarily attached to this one night's passage of time. It took me back to last New Year's Eve and a question asked me, "What's your resolu...
Greetings dear Readers!
As we all know the legendary 21st of December is almost upon us which means that according to the Mayan Calendar tomorrow we are all going to croak in horrible ways. On behalf of myself and the rest of the Spoof staff I just wanted to take this time to say thanks to all our readers and that it has been a fun ride. You have been a swell audience and we have certainly had...
New York - In an emergency appearance today before the United Nations, a team of international scientists reported that the world has ended. The stunning announcement came during a special session of the UN Security Council, during which scientists f...
In a surprise appearance last week, a man claiming to be Jesus revealed that the much anticipated 'zombie apocalypse' of 2012 is actually a mis-communication of the intended 'Second Coming'.
Jesus explained that they (the Holy Trinity) realised that if the Son of God were to turn up looking 'normal', He might not be taken seriously and most likely ignored (or sectioned if the NHS could be bothe...
Humanity's fate was sealed earlier today when a vial containing the genetically engineered super virus known as "EbolaThrax" was dropped at a secure lab facility deep within the Pentagon. Multiple contributing factors are apparently to blame for the...
In a late afternoon press conference on Friday, Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, announced that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse would give the keynote speech at the GOP convention this summer.
Seasoned observers...
ALAMEDA, CA-In the wake of his failed prediction of a May 21, 2011 world end date, Harold Camping took to his radio show to inform the people that the world would now end on October 21, 20-HUHK HUHK HUHK, HUHK HUHK, HUHK HUHK.
Camping made it cle...
BILLINGSGATE POST - Outlined against a blue, grey Washington sky the Four Horsemen rode once again. In Biblical lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Kennedy, Scalia, Rober...
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - Major casinos and top gambling experts say November 2012 is when humanity will meet a fiery and horrific doom. Although the Mayan Calendar points to December 21, 2012 for some kind of epic world-changing event, the rise of several...
Aude, France - A camper van convoy heading south to the apocalyptic 2012 town of Bugarach is threatening to sue UK tour operators HippyWheels amid a gruelling three day experience of local extreme plumbing.
Treacherous wintry conditions saw the cl...
London - The restoration of a long lost Leonardo Da Vinci painting shows a 'female' Savior - camouflaged with an androgynous beard - holding a crystal ball and crossing Her fingers as if in anticipation of Judgement Day.
Art critics said this week...
It's becoming increasingly clear that fans of Manchester United Football Club remain utterly convinced that internet rumours about May 21st being 'Judgement Day' and the end of the world are a load of old shite.
"It's just a load of old shite is t...
Houston, TX - Panicked NASA officials called President Obama today with some ominous news--the earth's rotation is about to slow down and stop. An unusual planetary alignment on the opposite side of the sun is to blame. Once the earth stops spinnin...
Doomsday, currently set for 21 May 2011, is going to be postponed because heaven and hell are not big enough for the world's population, a report states.
The World Society of People who Know Stuff That Others Do Not (WSOPWKSTODT) reports that whil...
First it was fishes, then it was birds, now it's poodles. Thousands of standard poodles are dropping like flies in France. While miniature, tea cup, toy and other varieties of poodles seem to be thriving in France and other parts of the world, the st...
The Apocalypse is upon us, the world is falling apart bit by bit. The climate is doing totally unexpected, swings from one extreme to the other. National economies are failing, one after the other, like a unstable house of cards with no sign of bein...
Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America has said lately that he is sorely disappointed in America's Christians of late. Robertson claims that the fundamentalist Christian movement is not moving nearly fast enough on certain initi...
Doomsayers the world over will be looking to the heavens on July 11 as one of the first seriously meaningful harbingers of the really, really, really awful things to come within the next two years leading up to the Apocalypse.
The event is a tota...