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Walt Zingmatilder

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Medieval author predicted Brexit
« on: December 18, 2018, 11:03:27 AM »
Boccaccio wrote a book entitled " The Dick Cameron"
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Re: Medieval author predicted Brexit
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2018, 11:31:42 AM »
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Re: Medieval author predicted Brexit
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2018, 01:34:29 PM »
And then there was that book on the treatments of constipation, by that famous Scottish prophet... wait for it.... The Bran seer.
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Walt Zingmatilder

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Re: Medieval author predicted Brexit
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2018, 02:08:48 PM »
Quote from: Anchorman on December 18, 2018, 01:34:29 PM
And then there was that book on the treatments of constipation, by that famous Scottish prophet... wait for it.... The Bran seer.
Ah yes the Brahan seer. He did bridges and pylons but did he foresee Brexit?
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Re: Medieval author predicted Brexit
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2018, 02:28:07 PM »
Quote from: Anchorman on December 18, 2018, 01:34:29 PM
And then there was that book on the treatments of constipation, by that famous Scottish prophet... wait for it.... The Bran seer.
Phew! for one horrible moment you were going to say "R. Stornaway"
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Re: Medieval author predicted Brexit
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2018, 03:02:24 PM »
Quote from: Phyllis Tyne on December 18, 2018, 02:28:07 PM
Phew! for one horrible moment you were going to say "R. Stornaway"

Didn't he write a book called  'Obsession with the Fundament' in collaboration with R. Sewell ?
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Re: Medieval author predicted Brexit
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2018, 03:08:28 PM »
Quote from: enki on December 18, 2018, 03:02:24 PM
Didn't he write a book called  'Obsession with the Fundament' in collaboration with R. Sewell ?
He was very prolific and well known in many Genres from the classic "Nails on the bannister" to his collaboration in chemistry "poisonous elements" co authored with R.Sennick.
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Re: Medieval author predicted Brexit
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2018, 03:23:19 PM »
Reminds me of another book entitled 'Obsession with Genitalia' co-authored by P. Ennis and Mike Litoris.
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Re: Medieval author predicted Brexit
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2018, 03:55:43 PM »
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