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elwoodelmore on November 1, 2008 - 10:32am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

apocalyptoids ? have doomers moved into a new, more prestegious realm ?

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TrueKaiser on November 1, 2008 - 11:13am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

No, that is what they are calling anyone who visits these sites. Including you.

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totoneila on November 1, 2008 - 11:44am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

apocalyptoids? Sounds to me like the next marketing brand name for a new and improved Altoids{Tm} breathmint.

I will consider it Real Progress when they finally call us 'Hemorrhoids'!

That is when the energy shortages become such an obvious pain in the global collective ass that we can no longer be ignored or denied. Then the world will finally get serious about paradigm shift and Optimal Overshoot Decline. :)

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DIYer on November 2, 2008 - 12:25pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Polaroids: what Eskimo truck drivers get.

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beggar on November 1, 2008 - 11:49am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Apocalyptoid = extreme Altoid. Far more powerful, and much more fun!

Apocalyptoids: bite 'em for a burst of flavor.

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souperman2 on November 1, 2008 - 8:54pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

from above link; "Peak oil has been predicted for 150 years. It has never happened, and it will stay this way. - Dr. Rühl, chief economist of BP"

and...

Dr. Ruhl will never die. He has not died yet and therefore he never will.

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Seadragon on November 1, 2008 - 6:33pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I think last year we were called "peak oil pranksters," so apocalyptoids must be an improvement...it does sound like a really bad-tasting mint, though.

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elwoodelmore on November 1, 2008 - 7:27pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

lyptoids has a meaning in german, i know not what.

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Sterling925 on November 2, 2008 - 10:33pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The dictionary states that the origin of the word is one word not a root+suffix construction. Interestingly, the meaning of the root is to reveal, not the colloquial/religious "end of the world."

[Origin: 1125–75; ME LL apocalypsis Gk apokálypsis revelation, equiv. to apokalýp(tein) to uncover, reveal (apo- apo- + kalýptein to cover, conceal) + -sis

Literally an Apocalyptiod would be "resembling one who reveals or uncovers."

That works...nicely.

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elwoodelmore on November 3, 2008 - 9:25am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

i belive wiki says (about apocalypse)something to do with persons endowed with special knowledge about the end of the world.

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