BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it

Subject: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: GUEST,sorfingers
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:09 PM

An idiot is the most powerful ruler and the war to end our planet is starting.

Just for your nighmares, theres enough Nukes to destroy the earth a hundred times over and lots left to spare.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: bobad
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:13 PM

Nostra Damus = Our Dame ?

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:14 PM

And we can all sleep easy knowing that there are wise and trustful men in charge of these weapons and want to preserve human life and end all wars.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Peace
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:16 PM

My Great Aunt Zelda used to do lots of laudinum. She foresaw it. She foresaw a day when cukes would destroy the world. It started like this. By day three it was like this. By the end of week one it looked like this. Not to put too fine a point on it, we are fooked!

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: number 6
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:24 PM

Yup ... your Aunt Zelda had that third eye Peace ... we're all gonna be pickled.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: bobad
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:28 PM

I just put up 4 quarts of pickles yesterday and there are more coming every day, my gawd THEY"RE TAKING OVER - I CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THEM - HELP ME!

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Becca72
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:33 PM

No cukes! No cukes! No cukes!

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: bobad
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:37 PM

Here ya go Becca

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Bert
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:39 PM

fooked, don't you mean cuked?

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:58 PM

Whale oil beef hooked!

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:52 PM

"Just for your nighmares, theres enough Nukes to destroy the earth a hundred times over and lots left to spare." sorefingers, in essence nothing has changed- it is still only one death per person. And thus it ever was.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:02 PM

Good ol' Mikey. Yep. 'Course, nobody can make heads or tails out of what he wrote, especially since he wrote in mixture of Latin, Greek, Italian and Provencal back between 1555 and 1568, so the language is kinda obscure, like Cervantes or Shakespeare to folks today. He was also never a Doctor, but he was an apothecary (for which he was tossed out of medical school).

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: GUEST,frogprince, on Martha's Vineyard
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:03 PM

Te mortality rate in my home town is 100 %...

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 10:02 PM

Move, frogprince! Surely, that is unprecedented.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 02:21 AM

You know, if spent years writing total drivel and said it was disguised predictions I think that about 400 years later someone would interpret them as coming true. Think I'll start now.

In the year of the orange lipfluff
While fish doze in the wood
They will come a mighty cruntbuttock
Whos reign will be so good.

There - Just you wait...

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: JennieG
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 03:49 AM

I reckon you have something there Dave......

if only we knew what it was......

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 04:01 AM

I just hope that I don't catch it!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Ernest
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 04:11 AM

So Nostradamus wrote it up and it all became true?

Now shall we blame him instead of B. for a change?

Him and those bloody Nostradummies!

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 04:16 AM

Nostradamus' predictions have all been very 'loose' and open to interpretation....the content attributed to anything over the years since his death that 'fit the bill'
Much more impressed with Old Mother Shipton.whose predictions adorn the cavern at Knaresborough in Yorkshire.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 04:23 AM

Mother Shipton, also known as Ursula Sonthiel Shipton, was born in 1488 in Yorkshire, England, and lived until 1561. According to legend, her birth was the result of a union between her mother and the devil. When she was born, she was reportedly hideously ugly.

This is a description of her as a child written by a later biographer:

Very morose and big boned, her head very long, with very great goggling, but sharp and fiery Eyes, her Nose of an incredible and unproportionate length, having in it many crooks and turnings, adorned with many strange Pimples of diverse colours, as Red, Blew, [sic] and mixt, which like Vapours of Brimstone gave such a lustre of the Night, that one of them confessed several times in my hearing, that her nurse needed no other light to assist her in the performance of her duty.

As Ursula grew older she began to tell fortunes and predict the future. For instance, she predicted that Cardinal Wolsey would see York, but never go to it. Sure enough, in 1530 Cardinal Wolsey was travelling to York. He climbed to the top of a tower and saw the town in the distance, but just then received a message from King Henry VIII asking him to return to London. He died on the way back to London, thus fulfilling Mother Shipton's prophecy.

She later made other prophecies, the most famous of which described future technology:


Carriages without horses shall goe,
And accidents fill the world with woe.
Around the world thoughts shall fly
In the twinkling of an eye....
Under water men shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep and talk;
In the air men shall be seen,
In white, in black and in green....
Iron in the water shall float,
As easy as a wooden boat.


Her most famous prophecy was this:


The world to an end shall come,
In eighteen hundred and eighty one.

Guess she was probably right about that too eh?
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: John O'L
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 05:14 AM

An idiot is the most powerful ruler and the war to end our planet is starting

This has happpened several tiems. It's almost a recurring theme. That's not to say we shouldn't be concerned that we've allowed it to happen yet again.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 05:37 AM

traditional folk music with unaccompanied ballads....he foresaw that.

bloody jigs and reels.... he foresaw all of them.

If only he'd known how to stop the bastards.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Paul Burke
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 05:39 AM

Most of Mother Shiptons prophecies were added after they happened, thus increasing the hit rate quite a bit. The iron ships and telegraph were added in the 1860s at the earliest- after Brunel's Great Eastern had laid the Transatlantic Cable.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:24 AM

Cukes are just a distraction. It is the zucchini that will get us.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:40 AM

I think that DtG is onto something. Or on something....

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: JennyO
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:49 AM

GUEST, Russ is right.

Ya gotta watch out for those giant zucchinis!

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 10:09 AM

Never mind the cukes & zucchini, watch out for the Killer Tomatoes

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 11:09 AM

"In the year of the orange lipfluff
While fish doze in the wood
They will come a mighty cruntbuttock
Whos reign will be so good." D(tG)

And this cruntbuttock by the name of Spaw
Shall be known far and wide for his daring
His reign from imbibing milk of his maw
Eight years after death so mighty his flaring

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: GUEST,frogprince
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 04:02 PM

and for many months the cat had many lives, yea, even many lives and deaths in the course of a day; but there came one who healed it, so that many daya indeed passed between the deaths thereof. And the pages multiplied, and upon them were many rantings and disputations and breakings of wind, in the midst of which were inscribed the words of strange and wondrous songs...

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Kaleea
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 04:31 PM

I just gonna ask my magick 8 ball from now on who to vote for!

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Peace
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 04:37 PM

Who's on first.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 06:09 PM

What?

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Peace
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 06:13 PM

What's on second . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 06:28 PM

Where?

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Peace
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 06:32 PM

Tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: John O'L
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:22 PM

Dr. Morrow?

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 09:13 PM

No.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: John O'L
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 12:13 AM

Dr. Moreau then?

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Peace
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 12:29 AM

No, Dr No.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: John O'L
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 12:33 AM

Ah! Doc. Turneau!

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Peace
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 12:40 AM

YES! Doc Turneau.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 01:48 PM

He didn't tell us why we keep electing idiots, did he? Might have been more useful.

Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: John O'L
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 01:58 AM

Telling us why was not his gig. Telling us that was what he did.
Supposedly.

Peace, I can't see your clicky. I'm forbidden.