So now we finally know why the maya calendar ends on 21 dec 2012 - they were waiting for the E17 release just like the rest of us! End of the world speculation

So now we finally know why the maya calendar ends on 21 dec 2012 - they were waiting for the E17 release just like the rest of us! End of the world speculations were just confusions with the phrase "when hell freezes over", which has also been used for E17.