A giant comet will explode in Greece on August 19th, according to Pravda, causing massive disruption of the Olympic Games. The newspaper's source is the ever-reliable Nostradamus, and a spamming net.kook:
Leading newspapers, governmental institutions, public and scientific organizations started receiving anonymous emails this week withTo all people of the Earthin the subject line. The emails warn of a catastrophe which is supposedly to take place on August 13th or 14th 2004 at the Olympic Games opening. The anonymous writer refers to Nostradamus's 10th Century, Quatrain 74. The prophet predicted:The year of the great seventh number accomplished, It will appear at the time of the games of slaughter: Not far from the great millennial age, When the buried will go out from their tombs.
The spammer's date was clearly wrong, but another author has examined the prophecy in more depth and come up with the August 19th date. Just to add to the confusion, someone referring to themselves as World War Three 2003
insisted over a year ago that Nostradamus predicted:
The 2004 Athens Olympics will be canceled due to a major event to take place in late 2003 or early 2004, sometime between Nov 2003 and Feb 2004...........
Nostradamus: Giant comet to collide with planet Earth on August 19th - Pravda, 16th August 2004; Cen.8, Qua.16 Olympic Fiesole 2002-2006 - alt.prophecies.nostradamus, 6th May 2003.

One can but hope... Anything to relieve me from the two week television blackhole of crap sport.
Oh, I don't know - there's always the incredibly inaccurately named coxless fours. Especially the Italians.
Unless there's Australians involved, the footage of the coxless fours will probably be broadcast around 3:00am. I think I'll settle in for the duration with a Babylon 5 marathon.
We are decorating the front room, and the telly is out of view. I will have to settle for the portable DVD player and the huge stack of anime I bought last week. The complete Adventures of Mini-Goddess should be a good start.