Thirteenth sign

[ffutures]

For anyone who thinks the current astrology nonsense is new...

http://www.amazon.com/Arachne-rising-thirteenth-sign-Zodiac/dp/0246109319

Check the publication date and look at the second review...

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The author eerily predicted the current kerfuffle 33 years ago!!!!
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Comments

[pmcray.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing that book in John Menzies in Preston in ~1977. Of course, I didn't know it was a spoof by John Sladek then and assumed that it was a book based on genuine research by reputable scholar who was on to so something. I was young!

[raygungothic.livejournal.com]

There is astrology nonsense that is specifically current, as opposed to generally nonsensical? News to me. Perhaps I should have paid more attention to those predictions.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The 13th sign of the zodiac (and all of the signs being wrong due to the precession of the equinoxes) has reared its ugly head again. Some idiot astronomer answered some questions incautiously.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

http://io9.com/5733004/your-zodiac-sign-may-have-changed-this-week

[raygungothic.livejournal.com]

He must be very unhappy that newspapers can't tell the difference between a nom and a log. Poor guy.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Arachne, my foot. I'm an Ophiuchus.

[gfieendish.livejournal.com]

I suspect that John Sladek Must be laughing his head off...
From Beyond The Grave...! (Sorry, but I could'nt resist making the quip...)
Mind you, I seem to recall from a Qi Episode, that people born above the Arctic Circle, don't have astrological star signs, as the constellations don't match the charts used to produce horoscopes, due to latitude...