Publication: Sun
Date: 8 Mar. 2010
Date of prophecy failure: 3 Apr. 2010
Our first prophecy date has now come and gone, and I'm prepared to say it was a bust. There was supposed to be the first of twelve startling omens on April 3, 2010, but I checked English language websites from around the world (CNN, Times of London, Times of India) and there wasn't a really WOW story yesterday. No big quake or volcano or hurricane making landfall. Dozens of people died in fighting in both Iraq and Pakistan, but that's hardly a startling omen. No important world leader died or resigned or was bombarded with a rain of toads.
An old racist supporter of apartheid was killed by workers in a pay dispute. That doesn't sound like a startling omen to me.
I'm going out on a limb here and declaring yesterday was pretty much startling omen free. Just another slow news Saturday.
One story that made headlines in all the news outlets I read is the iPad going on sale, but the size of the headline was in proportion to how close to New York the publication was.
I've read the stuff both pro and con about the iPad, I probably won't buy one, due partly to lack of interest and partly to broke-itude. In any case, I don't consider it an omen of the end times.
So, sorry, apocalypse fans. That's a big fat goose egg for your team. The first of many, I reckon.
(Editorial note: I decided that instead of calling a prophecy bust a Skeeter Davis Fail, I would use the upbeat song from Annie to say that the End Of The World will have to wait a little longer. No need to drag Ms. Davis' name through the mud just because it's not the end of the world.)
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