Subject: Re: unfair to bush (yeah, so?)
From: Jive Monkey (monkey_jive@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Dec 23 2000 - 16:53:58 GMT
damn it!!! do you realize how much damage the truth has done to my fragile
psyche? i was so intent on going through the next four years thinking
"heh-heh. village idiot. heh-heh" every time i was reminded of dubya. well,
i'll do it anyway.
andy
ac
From: "Otto Sell" <o.sell@telda.net>
Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Subject: Re: unfair to bush (yeah, so?)
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 07:12:28 +0100
Will,
the Nostradamus-quote is wrong, known as the "Village Idiot Hoax"
http://www.nostradamus-repository.org/
Otto
----- Original Message -----
From: Will Hochman <hochman@southernct.edu>
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 3:46 AM
Subject: Re: unfair to bush (yeah, so?)
> In 1555, Nostradamus wrote:
> > >
> > > Come the millennium, month 12,
> > > In the home of greatest power,
> > > The village idiot will come forth
> > > To be acclaimed the leader.
> >
>
> My wife is the deputy political editor of the Hartford Courant and
> has followed the polls very closely during the election period. I
> told her this summer that we would elect Bush because America is
> anti-intellectual and relates more directly to him as our village
> idiot than it could to Gore as Clinton's fool. She thought the polls
> indicated Gore would win. I think Salinger may have been helping me
> understand America's love affair with vulgarity and stupidity. As
> always, he's one of the few writers whose ideas never fail me...Will
> --
> Will Hochman
> Assistant Professor of English & Composition Co-Coordinator
> Southern Connecticut State University
> 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515
> 203 392 5024
>
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