Nutjob radio host who said the world would end in 92-93 (or 94-95)?

bbernardini

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Sat Jun-12-04 10:34 PM
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Nutjob radio host who said the world would end in 92-93 (or 94-95)?

I remember some right-wing religious wacko on the radio somewhere between Sept. '92 and May '93 (at least I think that's when it was...might have been '94-'95). Anybody remember who this guy was?

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AlGore-08.com

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Sat Jun-12-04 10:41 PM
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1. No, but there was a fundie cult in my High School that said 1980

They spent at least a year telling us all very vocally that we were too stupid to know the rapture was at hand and we would all burn in Hell before the year was out.

They spent 1981 (and presumably the years after that) trying to be invisible.

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leftistagitator

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Sat Jun-12-04 10:56 PM
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2. Well, there's always the Church of the Subgenius

They anticipated aliens coming on July 5, 1998, but the aliens got stuck in traffic, I think.
http://www.subgenius.com

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NightTrain

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Sat Jun-12-04 10:58 PM
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3. Are you talking about Reverend Ivan Stang of the Church of the...

...SubGenius? He predicted that the world would end on July 5, 1998. However, it turned out hy were mistaken. It seems that when Stang's savior, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, wrote down the date, Stang looked at it upside down. So the world is *really* going to end on May 7, 8661! :eyes:

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leftistagitator

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Sat Jun-12-04 11:17 PM
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5. I wouldn't roll my eyes at Bob

not unless you wish to incur the wrath of the stark fist of removal!

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zbdent

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Sat Jun-12-04 11:00 PM
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4. I remember that the world was supposed to end something like

86 or 88.

I had fun with that.

The Ultimate Show:

Ragna-Rock-And-Roll (I did love the Thor comic book)

Starring:

Poison
Anthrax
Megadeth
Disaster Area (a nod to HHGTTG:TRATEOTU - I don't have the book right by me to be sure, but the lead was "Hotblack Desioto")

I wanted to make up a cool poster advertising it.

There were three different dates that the nutjob claimed it would happen.

Somehow, I missed getting tickets, so I guess that I'm supposed to be fighting the good fight, right?

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