docwebster ([personal profile] docwebster) wrote2004-06-07 05:32 pm

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"There are two schools of thought on Nostradamus: either (1) he had supernatural powers which enabled him to prophesy the future with uncanny accuracy, or (2) he did for bullsh*t what Stonehenge did for rocks."

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[identity profile] disgruntledgrrl.livejournal.com 2004-06-07 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
My fiance can't breathe. Good one!!

[identity profile] yobadself.livejournal.com 2004-06-08 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, that's funnaaaay.

[identity profile] bludfeast.livejournal.com 2004-06-08 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
I tend to lean more to the Stonehenge theory, myself...

Too funny
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[identity profile] unixronin.livejournal.com 2004-06-08 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Or (3), his predictions are to prophecy what Rorschach inkblots are to psychiatry, because his writing was so heavily obfuscated to avoid being burned for witchcraft that no-one's really sure what any of them actually meant.

"Say, do you suppose 'mushrooms, the living green, a snake boil'd upon my hedde in fustian' could refer to George Tenet resigning from the CIA?"
"Sure. Whatever."