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That's it, time to start looting!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071011/od_nm/asteroid_dc_1;_ylt=A0WTUd.UtQ5HWMAA_AzmWMcF ^ | Thu Oct 11, 11:53 AM ET

Posted on 10/11/2007 4:50:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin

LONDON (Reuters) -- An asteroid is on a collision course with the earth and you have one hour left to live. What would you do in your last 60 minutes?

Not surprisingly, the majority of Britons questioned in a survey -- 54 percent -- said they would like to spend it either with or on the phone to their loved ones.

But the survey revealed a strong hedonistic streak -- 13 percent would sit back, accept the inevitable and reach for a glass of champagne.

Sex appealed to only nine percent while just three percent would turn to prayer.

Two percent intriguingly said they would reach for some fatty food while another two percent decided, with just an hour's life to go, that it was time to start looting.

The survey was commissioned by Ziji Publishing to mark the release of "Cloud Cuckoo Land" by debut novelist Steven Sivell who "uses the classic premise of an impending meteorite collision as a metaphor for threats to the human race."


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I would want to be with my family -- in prayer.
1 posted on 10/11/2007 4:51:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
What would you do in your last 60 minutes?

We'll we're all gonna get there someday,I like to think about what I can do now;)

2 posted on 10/11/2007 5:03:18 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
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To: BenLurkin
Look up Tom Cruise?
3 posted on 10/11/2007 5:07:11 PM PDT by Daffynition (The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
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To: Daffynition

Must be nice to have that kind of scratch that he’s got — but I wouldn’t want to be him!


4 posted on 10/11/2007 5:09:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Short my stock portfolio.
5 posted on 10/11/2007 5:11:45 PM PDT by trumandogz (Hunter Thompson 2008)
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To: BenLurkin
He has nothing I would want ... he looks neurotic.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. H. L. Mencken

6 posted on 10/11/2007 5:17:06 PM PDT by Daffynition (The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’d be frantically searching for Bruce Willis.


7 posted on 10/11/2007 5:54:48 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: NonValueAdded

lol!


8 posted on 10/11/2007 5:57:16 PM PDT by KoRn (Just Say NO ....To Liberal Republicans - FRED THOMPSON FOR PRESIDENT!)
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To: monkapotamus; BenLurkin

LOOTIE PING TIME!


9 posted on 10/11/2007 6:22:10 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Short my stock portfolio.

Right. And I'm guessing that this would be bad news for long term bonds.

10 posted on 10/11/2007 6:41:22 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: martin_fierro; SevenofNine; Tamar1973

11 posted on 10/11/2007 6:47:26 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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Fill my tank with gas, because the oil companies will see it as an excuse to raise the price to $5.00 a gallon.


12 posted on 10/11/2007 6:52:29 PM PDT by neal1960 (This space for rent.)
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To: monkapotamus

I knew it I knew it Looter guy was first man on the moon by the time Neil Armstrong show up there is nothing there


13 posted on 10/11/2007 10:07:46 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: martin_fierro

Be honest Martin I rather spent time with us freepers LOL!


14 posted on 10/11/2007 10:09:39 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: monkapotamus

the sucker will start lootin’ and rootin’ every time!


15 posted on 10/11/2007 10:11:35 PM PDT by JUMPIN JEHOSPOHAT ("I am not young enough to know everything" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: mdittmar
"We'll we're all gonna get there someday,I like to think about what I can do now;)"

That reminds me of what my pastor overheard while on a hospital visit. A patient chatting with his doctor before some minor surgery jokingly asked the doctor, "what are the chances I will die?", to which the doctor responded instantly... "100%, but I don't know when."
16 posted on 10/11/2007 10:14:49 PM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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Trust me Looter guy always find out something to loot I wouldn’t be suprise Godzilla show up in Tokyo Japan during Looting


17 posted on 10/11/2007 10:23:06 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: BenLurkin
An asteroid is on a collision course with the earth and you have one hour left to live. What would you do in your last 60 minutes?

My wife and I would take the best wine and food I could buy/loot to a high place, put on my classical mix cd (Wagner would be appropriate) and watch it happen while toasting the idiots that thought that mankind could end the earth.

I would be determined to die better than the dinosaurs.

18 posted on 10/11/2007 10:23:53 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Democrat Happens!)
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To: BenLurkin

The prospective looters must be liberals because only liberals would be stupid enough to steal something a half hour before the world is destroyed. It takes a liberal to be that stupid.


19 posted on 10/11/2007 10:25:47 PM PDT by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: SevenofNine

20 posted on 10/11/2007 10:37:41 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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