2012: Just another year, or 6.5 billion full dookie cannons?

Now this: Apparently 16th century French prophet Nostradamus has set 2012 as the year that time and the world, will come to an end. That is the interpretation of his "lost book" of quatrains (4 line predictions), as seen on the Hitler....errrr History Channel special last night. My first brush with Micheal De Nostradamus came in 1981, with the BF Orson Welles narrated The Man Who Saw Tomorrow, which Welles himself said he didn't believe. What I remember was the prediction of a 1986 plague, in which "man would become a man eater", as well as the 1999 beginning of World War III, where Persia (Iran) with the aid of Russian technology, would wage war against the West and Europe. He talked of a New City, (New York), being felled by a great "ball of fire" from the sky. Interest in Nostradamus post 9-11 is off the hook, as on Sept. 12th, 2001, he was the most Googled person on the planet. Translating his verses from French country gibberish to English makes for about the most vague reading you can get. In other words, they seem to be wide ass open to interpretation. In all actuality, he said this "end of time" thing could happen anywhere between 1992 and 2012. For whatever it's worth, in the Welles narrative, his prediction was that after WWIII, there would be centuries of peace with the world actually ending in 2997. So, do you go with the 2012 angle and head down and finance a bunch of "no payments until 2013" furniture and eat red meat and cheese every day while smoking with ranch dressing shots for chasers, or do you hop on your exercise bike and try to cut back on the booze while getting your credit score up? The choice is yours.