come the millennium

Peter van Heusden pvh at egenetics.com
Wed Dec 20 00:37:51 PST 2000


On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, snit wrote:


>
> In 1555, Nostradamus wrote:
>
> "Come the millennium, month 12,
> In the home of greatest power,
> The village idiot will come forth
> To be acclaimed the leader."

As pointed out, this is false, but there is a fun one from Century I:

"To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war."

Doesn't that sound like George W. Bush to you?

Peter -- Peter van Heusden <pvh at egenetics.com> NOTE: I do not speak for my employer, Electric Genetics "Criticism has torn up the imaginary flowers from the chain not so that man shall wear the unadorned, bleak chain but so that he will shake off the chain and pluck the living flower." - Karl Marx, 1844 OpenPGP: 1024D/0517502B : DE5B 6EAA 28AC 57F7 58EF 9295 6A26 6A92 0517 502B



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