Another end of the world!

The world will end in 2012! Yes, I've heard that one- but how about this one: back in 1555, a pessimistic ancient French dude with a name as weird as Nostradamus(hey, maybe his family were nose-pickers by trade!) predicted that in at least one third of the world's population would be killed in a 27-year world war. So on Sunday, July 4th, 1999 a bunch of weirdos totally freaked out. (Hey, I was alive then!) In Japan(home to one of the several Nostradamus cults) it was estimated that up to 20 percent of the people actually believed that a world war was going to start.

"Nostradamus fans in the UK can have a preview of Armageddon early this weekend with the opening of the Canadian film Last Night, which depicts how a small group of people choose to spend their final six hours before the world's end.
Elsewhere, it appears people intend to spend their last few days reading about the end of the world. His collected prophecies have sold more than six million copies around the world - a record beaten only by the bible. New editions have hastily been brought out just in time. "

However, since much of his writing has been written in an unintelligeble mush of medieval French, Provencale and Latin, this is only what translators have percieved and the guy may hve meant that chop suey will become my favorite food.

"Believers say he has predicted everything from the rise of Hitler to the death of Mother Teresa and Princess Diana.
"The problem with all of Nostradamus's prophecies is that they are all incredibly ambiguous," says Rev Fanthorpe, "and you need to be a 16th century historian and linguistics specialist to understand them."
Although the generally accepted day for the rise of the "King of Terror" is Sunday 4 July - it could also be the 24 July, or even 28 July - or not at all.
The Rev Fanthorpe believes that the whole prophecy has been mis-translated due to an early printing error and instead it predicts nothing more scary than the rise of "a good and kindly king". "

Read more at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/382787.stm

Hey, maybe he was just 100 years off. We can wait until 2999.