Nostradamus

One for Tilt that didn't make the cut

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ANNOUNCER:
And now on Five it’s time for the news with Nostradamus.

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NOSTRADAMUS:
Good evening, I’m Nostradamus. The headlines…

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NOSTRADAMUS:
World to end eventually in some rather non-specific yet contentiously frightening way!

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NOSTRADAMUS:
Scary apparitions in the heavens could well be construed at some stage as portends to something sort of bad-ish happening!

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NOSTRADAMUS:
Hellfire, damnation and pestilence likely! (PAUSE) Insurers request contingency meeting with Government Ministers.

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NOSTRADAMUS:
And in the sport, Lucky Lancer to win the 2.30 at Newbury. That’s a dead cert! Now over to Penny for the pollen count.

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For some reason as I was reading this I could "hear" Trevor MacDonalds voice. (And for a change he wasn't telling me to "burn this mother f**ker down"). Was that intentional?

Hey Wayne,

Well it's certainly his sort of his speech pattern but I couldn't actually say if it was intentional when I wrote it - though if it was or indeed if it was even some kind of subliminal thing then I'm missing a "Good baiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii" at the end.

So feel free to add one if you like.

Good, but Nostradamus as vague and unhelpful has been done before.

It works but I'd give it a twist, maybe something he reads in the news has a direct and surprising impact on himself.

I liked it. And I could hear the woman who does the news on Tilt reading it (though you'd have to stick a 'now for the Nostradamus news' line in before it.

Other than that, good work.

Dan