I have to say I'm still not all that impressed. How impressed would you have been in 1939 if a local lad claiming to be a prophet said 'here is a sign. An essex lass will get knocked up and have a wee lad called John .I disagree, James. Not only because here in Essex they didn't have crunchy nut cornflakes before about the 1970s, and they only drank Boddingtons in those wild northern parts. For the point of the saying, with that definite article we discussed at such length, is about a specific girl. More like:
He'll eat Kellogs crunchy nut corn flakes and before and before he's old enough to down a pint of Boddington's bitter Hitler and Mussolini will have lost the war.'?
Surely your average local critic will say something like 'but John's are born every year. What does that prove?'. Surely there must have been something special about the birth of the boy in order to make the prophecy spectacular.
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