Nostradamus

**Gino** · 18th September 2001, 11:44 PM

For what it is worth and I'M DEFINETLY NOT trying to revieve a previous post which has been closed.
The following was sent to me by a work friend re the prediction of Nostradamus, it is worth a read.
It astounds me how some stupid B can make these things up for personal satisfaction.
And yes I also fell for it too, but then I read what was on the link below.

regards

Gino
http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar.../aa091101b.htm

**Iain** · 19th September 2001, 08:42 AM

Try taking a look at James Randy sometime. He performs some amazing feats with psychics and the like and debunks all of them.
He shot Uri Geller in the foot and had Don Lane kick him off his show when he did the same to Doris Stokes (dec). She would speak to the dead and had audiences sucked in, including Don Lane, and would put forward a lead and waited for responses. She played to the audience response and had them believing that she was communicating with loved ones.
Example: Set the scene, an audience of 500 gullible believers. Doris stands up front and holds her temples and announces she is talking to John, good chance half the audience know a dead John, narrows it down a bit with, he is calling for or was close to Joan. We now probably have about 100 captives.
She has brown hair, and so it goes on until we have a victim. She then announces that he is happy on the other side and the crowd roar and shell out $$$$$$$$$$$$ for this wonderful piece of garbage.
I do a similar thing for a prty trick using an elementary form of hypnosis, it woirks and you can't help but go for it. It's totally harmless but a complete con.
Back to NOstradamus, his writings are so cryptic, they can be taken any way you want, just like the daily horoscope.

**oges** · 20th September 2001, 07:53 AM

Nothing to do with Nostradamus, but perhaps a prediction from Microsoft?:

Open Wordpad and type the following in CAPS:

NYC
OSAMA

Change the font size to 72

Change the font to Wingdings

**Gino** · 20th September 2001, 06:00 PM

the following is similar I've just copied and pasted it here as it was.

The plane that hit WTC#1 had a serial number of Q33NY.
> > >
> > > In MS Word, type in that flight number in upper case
> > >
> > > Enlarge the font size to 26
> > >
> > > Change the font to Wingdings

**ubeaut** · 21st September 2001, 01:12 AM

What they're on about is this: Below is what you get if you set your font to Wingdings typeface and type in Q33NY the flight # for the plane that hit World Trade Centre # 1
</head><body><font face="Wingdings" size="7">
Q33NY</font></p>
</body>
</html>
Who the hell is it that finds out all of these strange things. Somewhere in this world there must be a Department of Weird. The brief for this department and all who astral travel in it is to aimlessly try out combinations of odd things until they come up with something of earth shattering significance. Weird, really weird.

**barrysumpter** · 22nd September 2001, 02:34 PM

Yeah I've read a few books about him.
A few specials on TV also.

What I understood was he not only had painful dreams which predicted the future but was also schooled in Astronomy (not astrology, however, my thought is he would have been studying both).

I also understood that he was being persecuted as a witch and heritic for predicting the death of the queens son in a joisting match. He predicted how and when.

My thought is that he mixed up his predictions to save his life. And not to mess with our heads.

I remember there were predictions of a person who would be a ble to decifer his predictions.

I also remember this self acclaimed deciferer decifered the beginning of the end of the work in 2001 or some time in the far distant future that none of us would care to remember the date.

Even if I had his exact writtings in front of me I would have to be able to know his mindset when he wrote it.
Was he being fecitios, or sarcastic, did he have a hatred or insanity we know nothing about. Is it reflected in his perdicitions?
And his use of language or slang.
Was he intelligent enought to code his wrttings in phonics or encription of another kind.

Or could it all have been a scam deliberately planned and executed. Or perhaps a joke intended only for a certain arena or like minded intellectuals.

Are there people out there who are not just saying it was predicted, but thos who are decifering a non existant meaning and acting on it to either ensure its happening or to prevent it form ever happening.

nuf fer now

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Thanks,
Barry G. Sumpter
Proud Tritoneer

**Gino** · 23rd September 2001, 11:24 PM

Dear Barry

I new you were a man of good taste, (having a triton and all) but I didn't know you were such an interlectual.
Personally I would have put it down to someone who was an extreme wanker with lots of time on his hands. (which is what I suspect you were trying to say in a nice sort of way)
While it is somewhat weird who the hell would go to all that trouble?

best regards

Gino

**RayC** · 26th September 2001, 12:03 PM

There is no WTC#1 - they were designated the North and South towers.

The numbers of the flights which hit the World Trade Center Towers were:
American Airlines Flight 11 (north tower)
United Airlines Flight 175 (south tower)

The flight that went into the Pentagon was American Airlines Flight 77.

All this has been widely reported in the press, so - in line with Gino's original posting, referring us to the 'UrbanLegends' web site - whoever came up with the wingdings thing was interested in creating a sensation, but without regard to factual accuracy.

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R

**Shane Watson** · 26th September 2001, 02:06 PM

Ray,
while I agree with your statement, its hard to back it up...

Firstly, yes the two towers were called either World Trade Centre Building 1 & World Trade Centre Building 2. From memory World Trade Centre Building 5 also collapsed. I believe there were maybe up to or more than 7 buildings in the entire World Trade centre complex. Most people are only familar with the two tallest ones.

Secondly, the wingdings thing actually states that the number Q33NY as being the serial number of the plane that hit WTC#1 & not the flight number. I have tried researching that particular flight and cannot find anything to confirm that serial number or not, although I would not be surprised to learn that it had been manufactured to create an 'urban legend'.

I also wouldn't be advising that you believe everything that you hear in the press. They are renowned themself for less than factual reporting. The only way to be sure is to research these thing yourself, theres a wealth on info at your fingertips online. The problem is sorting through the BS to get to the good stuff.

Cheers!

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**Iain** · 26th September 2001, 08:55 PM

As we all now know Shane, the media are prone to offering opinion rather than reporting fact, more sensationalism = more $$$$$
Too much Bundy probably

Reporters, should they wish to remain politically correct, should be called offerers of self perception.
Back to the Glenfiddich.....
Which reminds me, wheres bloody Saxton, he's gone missing of late.

[This message has been edited by Iain (edited 26 September 2001).]

**Shane Watson** · 26th September 2001, 09:38 PM

He's in NZ on holidays..... Don't know when he's due back though. Probably got stuck in NZ courtesy of Air NZ....

**AlexS** · 27th September 2001, 08:45 AM

Another Nostradamus prediction...
In the first year of the new century and nine months, some wanker will put words into my mouth that i never said...

**barrysumpter** · 29th September 2001, 06:35 AM

In the infamous words of Rod Stitch on The Panel:

'He was !'

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Thanks,
Barry G. Sumpter
Proud Tritoneer

May Yesterdays Tears Quinch the Thirst for Tomorrows Revenge

**John Saxton** · 10th October 2001, 09:00 PM

That damn nostrils throwin' his proverbs around again ....all of a sudden somethin' happens people reach for the nostril book!!
Hi all, back from NZ and throwin gumboots at the locals whilst keepin' plastic firmly clenched between teeth on bungy jumps ....it's a bloody long way down to them there rivers.
Had a feelin' Qantas was the best bet and am glad we did ....hells we may have had to suffer more time learnin' the Hakka and flexin' the ol' plastic beyond all reasonable doubt.
Saw some great woodwork there but their limitation with timbers available leaves a lot to be desired.
Now where did I put those bottles of duty free Bushmills ...ahh thats better ..a small libation of the aforesaid nectar wil only be quenched with the aid of a sizable glass...bugger the glass.. where's Er indoors ..the neck of the bottle 'll do!!
Cheers folk and good health

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Johnno

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