It's sounding like we will be without John Prine, as well as Carlin RIP.
I was sorting a stack of three-hole punched Zerox pages and came across this [I transcribe]:
Quote:
The Sunday Oregonian, August 23,1981
16th century prophesies of coming wars, golden age popular in France
by Jeffery Ulbrich
Paris(AP) — A new interpretation of the prophesies of the 16th century French physician and astrologer Nostradomus has become one of the top-selling books in France this summer. It predicts for the remainder of this century a Soviet-Arab invasion of Western Europe, then a major conflict with China, followed by a "golden age".
The book, "Nostradomus, Historian and Prophet," was written by Jean Charles de Fontbrune....
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The TLDR; is he translated from Old French to the Latin Nostradomus thought in, then to New French. The only thing it gets wrong is the Soviet Union's continued existence.
I was a little surprised that the newspaper used lower case headlines. Now it goes in the shredder.
edit: Whelp, that was a long way from the Hippy-dippy Weatherman.