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From: Wade T.Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
>
> And this has already been exposed as a fraud, as well.
<gulp> Hasn't _all_ of 'Nostrodamus'?
These emails do have an effect! In the summer of 1999 another 'fake'
Nostrodamus quadrain(?) was doing the rounds. The years only Friday 13th was
in August and it was being 'predicted', via email and the tabliod UK media,
as the end of the world! I was spending that weekend in a small village on
the edge of the Yorkshire Moors. In the village pub that night all the
locals chatted about it, come close time there were a few worried faces.
Doom and gloom fueled by beer!
The room we stayed in had a huge bay window and we left the curtains open,
it was a nice clear summers night. We woke in the early hours to roaring
thunder and the most fantastic electric storm, it ran right down the East
coast of England. After checking that there were no 'horsemen' outside, my
wife and I shared a few thoughts about how many others, hid under the bed,
made frantic telephone calls of goodbye, made confessions, et al? We found a
few folk who had, back at the the bar later on!
Well, "Happy Holidays" to you all,
Plur,
Austin
Twickenham UK
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