My favourite is the Nostrodamus one. I'm so glad to see that one knocked on the head.
"Nostradamus did not write the quatrain now being attributed to him. ... It originated with a student at Brock University in Canada in the 1990s, appearing on a web page essay on Nostradamus. That particular quatrain was offered by the page's author, Neil Marshall, as a fabricated example to illustrate how easily an important-sounding prophecy can be crafted through the use of abstract imagery." (Italics mine)
Wow! It just goes to show - never make stuff up in an attempt to demonstrate how gullible people are - it will always come back to haunt you...
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And another Duh!
Date: 2001-09-20 12:58 am (UTC)"Nostradamus did not write the quatrain now being attributed to him. ... It originated with a student at Brock University in Canada in the 1990s, appearing on a web page essay on Nostradamus. That particular quatrain was offered by the page's author, Neil Marshall, as a fabricated example to illustrate how easily an important-sounding prophecy can be crafted through the use of abstract imagery." (Italics mine)
Wow! It just goes to show - never make stuff up in an attempt to demonstrate how gullible people are - it will always come back to haunt you...