This is not a 2012 prophesies discussion - Institute for Human Continuity.

[Hel]

Next time I have the desire to watch the world die at the click of my mouse, I will visit that site, simply for the animated simulations. ROFLOL!

And I didn't hear/read that poem until I was 15, though it was a somewhat different version in which the kids got shot by the police. I personally wouldn't want children in my care to hear something about dead children with weapons until they were oh... 12? At least old enough to understand oxymorons.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

though it was a somewhat different version in which the kids got shot by the police.

I didn't catch that. Same here: He "ran and shot the two dead boys".

I can still remember reading that somewhere around the third grade. I think I can even remember the book... It was called "Daze and Knights", I think, or something like that.

 

[WhoWee]

As if the 2012 disaster wasn't bad enough, I just heard a report on the radio that martians are landing in Grover's Mill, New Jersey!

Welles even provided disclaimers! And look at how much trouble he got himself into.

No, that's Libyan Leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and his entourage.

 

[junglebeast]

Borrowed, more or less, from a child's poem

One bright day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
drew their swords and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard the noise
and ran to save the two dead boys.
If you don't believe this lie is true,
ask the blind man, he saw it, too.

That is a lovely poem...was it written by one of your students or something?

 

[lisab]

That is a lovely poem...was it written by one of your students or something?

No, it's a well-known poem...at least in the US. I tried to google it but there are so many variations...it's too viral to find its roots.