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Date Posted: 03:06:48 09/14/01 Fri
Author: FK
Subject: Re: *sigh*
In reply to: Nolij 's message, "*sigh*" on 19:32:06 09/13/01 Thu

Ah but wise old Nostradamus seemed to be foretelling your cynicism with this passage:

Many will doubt my words
Until they realize I was right twice today
Oh yeah and a tempest brews near the city of buccaneers
Also threatening the great palace of the mouse

Actually, the rather ironic origins of the WTC quote are discussed at the Urban Legends Research Centre, which is an excellent site.

To find the roots of this 'prediction' we have to take to the web to go look at a page written back in the 90's by a student by the name of Neil Marshall at Brock University in Canada. Neil wrote an essay for his web site in which he critically analysed several of Nostradamus' prophecies and also in which he offered an example of a fake prediction he himself created purposefully to mirror the vague style that Nostradamus had used. Neil then went on to illustrate how this prediction could be used to match any number of preconceived meanings.

By now you've probably guessed that the prediction Neil made up was none other than the one currently being spread like wildfire around the internet… Absolutely correct!


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