http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53344 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:45:35 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53344#post-154577 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:18:51 +0000 Squudge 154577@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>how will they find 12?</p> <p>or are we going with a post-modernist version with flabby male 'IT specialists' or similar in the colder months? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53344#post-154574 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:06:16 +0000 Yikes 154574@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A pre "end of the world" bump .. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53344#post-153809 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 04:41:31 +0000 Yikes 153809@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>After the success of their spoof Armageddon calendar, Mayan Publishing Inc has gone back to its roots by releasing a sacrificial virgin calendar for 2013.</p> <p>Mayan Publishing chief Manuel Zera said despite the high profile of the Armageddon calendar, it didn’t make much money: ‘Making it a 5125 year calendar was a blunder as by February 3113BC it was already in the 90% off bin at WH Smiths, along with the Jamie Oliver ‘Cooking with Fire’ DVD.’</p> <p>Mr Zera said the sacrificial virgins in the 2013 calendar are not completely nude to avoid causing offence: ‘Each month has a scantily clad Mayan beauty tied to a rock as the gleaming dagger is about to be plunged into her belly in a tasteful balance of titillation and mutilation.’</p> <p>‘And to appeal to Advent calendar loving children, there is a flap over each virgin’s belly that the kids can lift up to find a heart-shaped sweet’ said Mr Zera.</p> <p>Mr Zera pointed out that like the Armageddon calendar, the 2013 offering shouldn’t be taken too literally: ‘Sure the calendar appears to show near naked virgins sacrificed to the God of Corn but this is modern day Mexico – most of the girls aren’t virgins.’</p> <p>While initial sales of the new calendar have been surprisingly slow, Mr Zera hopes that sales will pick up after 21 December: ‘But if they don’t, it’s not like it’s the end of the world or anything’ said Mr Zera. </p>