# Sign of the times

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-of-the-times/81619>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 14, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-of-the-times/81619 "2001-09-14T15:56:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-of-the-times/81619/1 "2001-09-14T15:56:28Z")

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As I write this, the top five selling books over at **[amazon.com](http://amazon.com)** are:

1. **Nostradamus** by John Hogue

2. **Twin Towers** by Angus Kress Gillespie

3. **Nostradamus and His Prophecies** by Nostradamus

4. **The New Jackals** by Simon Reeve (about Osama and cohorts)

5. **The Secrets of Nostradamus** by David Ovason

Numbers 2 & 4 don’t surprise me, but 1, 3, & 5?

:rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Elvis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Elvis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elvis)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-of-the-times/81619/2 "2001-09-14T15:59:00Z")

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It’s because there’s a bunch of nonsense floating around the net purporting to show that Nostradamus predicted the WTC disaster. Of course it’s all nonsense, dubunked on Snopes and in a thread here already.

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**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-of-the-times/81619/3 "2001-09-14T15:59:39Z")

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I wonder if Nosty predicted how fucking famous he’d be centuries after he spewed his blather?

jarbaby

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**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-of-the-times/81619/4 "2001-09-14T16:06:36Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Elvis \*  
> \*\*It’s because there’s a bunch of nonsense floating around the net purporting to show that Nostradamus predicted the WTC disaster. Of course it’s all nonsense, dubunked on Snopes and in a thread here already. \*\*

Oh yeah, I knew that already, got the email myself a few times. That’s why I had the :rolleyes: in there. I wonder if the publishers are giving that Canadian kid a kickback for all the generated revenue.

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-of-the-times/81619/5 "2001-09-14T16:09:50Z")

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Now _that’s_ funny! It’s not like he can step up and say, “Hey, wait, I wrote that!”

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sign-of-the-times/81619/6 "2001-09-15T04:04:29Z")

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At the moment, #18 is **Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and In Your Life**.

BTW, here’s the [link](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/283155/ref%3Dtab%5Fb%5Fb%5F3/104-1479551-2332757).