If in the run-up to Dec 21, media had a field day reporting the possible apocalyptic scenarios should the Mayan prediction come to pass; the failure of the forecast, in turn, is a field day for netizens to poke fun at the event in the form of jokes and memes.

Just minutes after the clock struck 12 midnight, Facebook and Twitter started to show posts making light of the failed Doomsday prediction.

One office worker, tongue-in-cheek, lamented having handed in his resignation prior to Dec 21 and now has to eat humble pie and ask his boss for his former job.

In Twitter, (hash)EndoftheWorld was one of Friday's most popular hash tags. Video sharing site YouTube also featured several Armageddon pranks such as this one that a tsunami hit New York.

The L4D Brothers posted this MTV poking fun at the failed prophecy.

This video parodied the event in a joke newscast by Sam Bowers.

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Meme makers were also busy. Here are some samples of their works.

All these jokes and memes just validated the observation even before Dec 21 that people just took the Mayan end-of-the-world prediction as another joke gone bad.

It is not just the Mayans who are red-faced about their failed prediction. Another group is bound to experience foot-in-the-mouth ailment with its prediction of three days of darkness from Dec 22 onwards due to the Earth passing the fifth dimension. The fearless forecast by Princess Kaoru Nakamaru of Japan, who spoke at the Pythagoras Conference, warned of three days of no sun or no stars.

Here is the YouTube posting of her speech, which would probably soon join the ranks of the Mayan and other end-of-the-world prophesies that fizzled out.

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