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BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it

08 Aug 06 - 07:09 PM (#1804803)
Subject: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: GUEST,sorfingers

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.


08 Aug 06 - 07:13 PM (#1804806)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: bobad

Nostra Damus = Our Dame ?


08 Aug 06 - 07:14 PM (#1804807)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Divis Sweeney

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.


08 Aug 06 - 07:16 PM (#1804810)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Peace

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!


08 Aug 06 - 07:24 PM (#1804815)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: number 6

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

sIx


08 Aug 06 - 07:28 PM (#1804818)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: bobad

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!


08 Aug 06 - 07:33 PM (#1804824)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Becca72

No cukes! No cukes! No cukes!


08 Aug 06 - 07:37 PM (#1804832)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: bobad

Here ya go Becca


08 Aug 06 - 07:39 PM (#1804835)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Bert

fooked, don't you mean cuked?


08 Aug 06 - 07:58 PM (#1804852)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: The Fooles Troupe

Whale oil beef hooked!


08 Aug 06 - 08:52 PM (#1804902)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Ebbie

"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.


08 Aug 06 - 09:02 PM (#1804910)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Rapparee

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).


08 Aug 06 - 09:03 PM (#1804911)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: GUEST,frogprince, on Martha's Vineyard

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


08 Aug 06 - 10:02 PM (#1804956)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Ebbie

Move, frogprince! Surely, that is unprecedented.


09 Aug 06 - 02:21 AM (#1805025)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Dave the Gnome

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)


09 Aug 06 - 03:49 AM (#1805063)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: JennieG

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

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

Cheers
JennieG


09 Aug 06 - 04:01 AM (#1805068)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work

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


09 Aug 06 - 04:11 AM (#1805075)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Ernest

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!


09 Aug 06 - 04:16 AM (#1805078)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Georgiansilver

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.


09 Aug 06 - 04:23 AM (#1805080)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Georgiansilver

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.


09 Aug 06 - 05:14 AM (#1805096)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: John O'L

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.


09 Aug 06 - 05:37 AM (#1805106)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Big Al Whittle

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.


09 Aug 06 - 05:39 AM (#1805109)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Paul Burke

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.


09 Aug 06 - 08:24 AM (#1805151)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: GUEST,Russ

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


09 Aug 06 - 08:40 AM (#1805161)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Rapparee

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


09 Aug 06 - 08:49 AM (#1805169)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: JennyO

GUEST, Russ is right.

Ya gotta watch out for those giant zucchinis!


09 Aug 06 - 10:09 AM (#1805219)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie

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


09 Aug 06 - 11:09 AM (#1805261)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Ebbie

"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


09 Aug 06 - 04:02 PM (#1805531)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: GUEST,frogprince

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...


09 Aug 06 - 04:31 PM (#1805546)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Kaleea

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


09 Aug 06 - 04:37 PM (#1805550)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Peace

Who's on first.


09 Aug 06 - 06:09 PM (#1805634)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Rapparee

What?


09 Aug 06 - 06:13 PM (#1805635)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Peace

What's on second . . . .


09 Aug 06 - 06:28 PM (#1805645)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Rapparee

Where?


09 Aug 06 - 06:32 PM (#1805647)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Peace

Tomorrow.


09 Aug 06 - 08:22 PM (#1805747)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: John O'L

Dr. Morrow?


09 Aug 06 - 09:13 PM (#1805802)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Rapparee

No.


10 Aug 06 - 12:13 AM (#1805897)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: John O'L

Dr. Moreau then?


10 Aug 06 - 12:29 AM (#1805903)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Peace

No, Dr No.


10 Aug 06 - 12:33 AM (#1805905)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: John O'L

Ah! Doc. Turneau!


10 Aug 06 - 12:40 AM (#1805906)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: Peace

YES! Doc Turneau.


10 Aug 06 - 01:48 PM (#1806465)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: GUEST,Shimrod

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


11 Aug 06 - 01:58 AM (#1806977)
Subject: RE: BS: Nostradamus forsaw it, now we live it
From: John O'L

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.