I found this cool little thing on the interweb: an automated Nostradamus prophecy generator: http://www.getodd.com/stuf/nostradamus.html
Given that Nostradamus wrote a load of old bollocks, but wrote it so vaguely and poetically that you could attach any number of his quatrains to any number of subsequent events, I thought it might be interesting to see if any of these auto-quatrains could apply to current events. Like this one -
Too much the heavens weep for the Androgyne procreation
Near the heavens human blood shed
It will be seized and plunged into the Vat
Drinking by force the waters poisoned by sulfur
To me, this seems to hint at the Catholic child-abuse scandal: 'Androgyne procreation'...'human blood shed ... seized and plunged into the Vat'[ican]...'waters poisoned by sulfur' [a clearly poetic take on the corruption of innocence].
What might also be interesting is to see if any auto-quatrain posted here subsequently seems to apply to a later event. And of course, any that strike you as funny will be most welcome here. Anyways, in the hope that the rest of you fancy a bit of entertaining confirmation bias, I'm going to post the next quatrain the generator comes up with, and see if it applies to anything yet to pass...
The trembling of the earth at Mortara
Estates and offices low are high, those high made very low
While the fortress falls the great leader will succumb
Then wars will start anew
Fuck, that sounds bad! (this bit isn't part of the quatrain, BTW)