Salem said: A year minus few days until the Mayan had to buy a new calendar to replace the one they've used for too long :D
And yet people make a fuzz about it like if it were the end of the world, like if the end of a age couldn't be something non violent, non destructive and something in the lines of how the "middle age" was over and the contemporary age started.
Sometimes I think that Mayans are the greatest trolls in Human History.