Re: XX days until what?
From: VicXnews (news_at_news.com)
Date: 08/23/04
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 03:00:20 GMT
"Joe S." <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote in
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> I killfiled Dr. Min a long time ago -- perhaps I should not have done
> that? It appears from several items posted here that he has made a
> prediction (prophecy ?) about an event of some importance coming up in
> 11 days (today being 22 August).
>
> What did he predict? Should I lay in a stock of water, canned food,
> candles, and extra ammo?
>
He is a rightwing nut job and it has something to do with the emperor and
his clothing...he is hard to killfile because he has so many screennames
and cross poste to so many groups...but he is easy to ignore
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