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From: Graeme Wall <>
Subject: Re: FASCINATING PAGES
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 19:24:55 +0100


In message <>
(Gordon Johnson) wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 10:49:19 +0200, "Lesley Robertson"
> <> wrote:
>
> >
> >Roy Stockdill <> wrote in message
> >news:...
> >> IT was a JOKE, for heaven's sake - and you must be the only one in the
> >> world who didn't get it!!!
> >
> >Never mind, Roy, there's room in the corner of my office where I've been
> >writing my "I won't make jokes" lines following my little brush with a
> >follower of Nostradamus! You're welcome to a bit of space....
> >Lesley Robertson
> ** You mean, Lesley, that there are SERIOUS believers in Nostradamus??
> He wrote gobbledygook to suit the weird notions of the French king of
> the time. It is others (like the king) who perceived answers to the
> riddles in his text.
> That's like believing that prediction of the future can be found by,
> say, reading the answers to the Times crossword puzzle!
> (mind you, there were answers in the issue before D-day that revealed
> some of the code-names for the D-day landings..... true!!!)

Omaha and Utah to be precise, the editor got a roasting but they couldn`t
tell him why. The crossword had been compiled several months previously and
it was just coincidence it was published when it was.
--
Graeme Wall

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