This is the end, my friends

Apparently, the odds of the world ending on Tuesday, 6/6/06 are 100,000 to 1 according to Vegas oddsmakers who, simply because of the fact that they're dealing with lots of money and lots of potentially angry men who hate to lose money, are often right.
Now according to the National Weather Service, the odds are 400,000 to 1 (I took the more conservative estimate) of you being struck by lightning within the next year.
Therefore, it's four times more likely that the world will end on Tuesday than it is that you will be struck by lightning in the next year.
Now several people have been struck by lightning twice in one year. One of them is Jan Michelini.
Michelini works in the movie industry.
Coincidentally, Michelini was struck twice while helping to make to make a religious film, one with apocalyptical implications.
This movie was The Passion of the Christ.
Anyway, the odds of getting struck once are 400,000 to 1, so the odds of it happening twice within the year, as it happened to Jan Michelini, are 400,000 X 400,000 for a whopping total of 160,000,000,000 to 1. Imagine, the world ending on Tuesday is 1,600,000 times more likely than getting struck by lightning twice in one year.

Michelini was Mel Gibson's assistant director on The Passion . Gibson also was in M. Night Shyamalan's Signs. In that movie, Gibson's character asks, "Is it possible that there are no coincidences?" I say, Yes, Mr. Gibson, it is all too possible.

The world's gonna end today. Put your money on it.