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Old 26th January 2013, 12:49 PM   #1201
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Originally Posted by Rwalsh View Post
You know what Really Hurts me the most.

James Randi looks like a great guy. He looks like a honest believer of Nostradamus and phenomenon events or occurrences. Even just the fact that we as humans exist today is phenomenon.

Now that is something I can prove. Humanity is a phenomenon like no other planet.
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Old 26th January 2013, 01:54 PM   #1202
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rwalsh
Humanity is a phenomenon like no other planet.
Maybe he was playing Madlibs?

Noun is a phenomenon like no other Noun.

I'm cheating and using random nouns from a dictionary:

A registry is a phenomenon like no other brake.
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Old 26th January 2013, 03:22 PM   #1203
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Originally Posted by Rwalsh View Post
Queen Elizabeth will die at 98. There you go, thats all i got for now..
I know rwalsh went postal and is on perma-vacation from here, but still, this bears correction.

That's actually not what he predicted before. He said that Brenda would die in her 98th year (so at age 97), not at 98. Seems to me as though he's hedging his bets a little by doubling the size of his target.

I hope rwalsh gets the mental health help he needs.
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Old 26th January 2013, 03:48 PM   #1204
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Originally Posted by Rwalsh View Post
it just seems to me nostradamus was infatuated with the queen elizebeth. thinks highly of her.

And me, I didnt give a rats ass about the queen up until Nostradamus. But obviously her influence on the world and the people has impressed nostradamus and the peoples
And my aunt has a bicycle.

[What is as related to you post as your post is related to mine, the one you are supposed to be replying]

[Independently of that, that nostradamus puppet of yours seem to follow the wishes and obsessions of yours, its puppeteer]

Sorry, I haven't realized the poster had been banned.
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Old 26th January 2013, 04:59 PM   #1205
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So, who wants to take over organising the St Helena trip?
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Old 27th January 2013, 06:15 AM   #1206
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Originally Posted by Akhenaten View Post
So, who wants to take over organising the St Helena trip?
Only if I can wear the tricorn hat.
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Old 27th January 2013, 06:30 AM   #1207
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Originally Posted by dafydd View Post
Only if I can wear the tricorn hat.


Seems legit.
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Old 27th January 2013, 09:15 AM   #1208
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That was quite the dramatic exit.


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Old 28th January 2013, 10:56 AM   #1209
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IIRC (and I'm not going back to the beginning of this ridiculous thread to check) he's also predicted that Prince Harry will succeed Charles as King rather than Prince William, because William is not really his son. Quite a long wait before we see if that one's right too.

He still hasn't explained why Nostradamus would care enough about the monarchy of a foreign country centuries hence to bother making such predictions.
On the death of the queen

Strife will be seen

Disasters come near

Mankind will fear.
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Old 28th January 2013, 11:06 AM   #1210
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Originally Posted by Wolrab View Post
Depuis le Grand Nord du chien enragé hurlait
Issu sens de charabia de vieux
Violentes menaces vides pour les non-croyants
mérité la mort par le modérateur dans treize

It keeps getting better the more I run it through google translate.

Since large rabid dog howling North
Sense of the old nonsense
Violent threats in the air for non-believers
deserved death by the moderator in thirteen
Well that was more accurate than Nostradamus.
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Old 28th January 2013, 07:07 PM   #1211
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Ah well. End of an era.
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Old 28th January 2013, 07:33 PM   #1212
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Ah well. End of an era error .
ftfy....
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Old 31st January 2013, 12:43 PM   #1213
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Well, if he gets to Saint Helena I hope he takes time to get some diving and bird watching in. I'd hate for him to waste the trip on this when there are real things there to be interested in.
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