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"Well, Petula Clark says burst them early, but David Frost..."
"No, the stars in the paper, you cloth-eared heap of anteater's catarrh! The zodiacal signs, the horoscopic fates, the astrological portents, the omens, the genethliac prognostications, the mantalogical harbingers, the vaticinal utterances, the fatidical premonitory uttering of the mantalogical omens — what do the bleeding stars in the paper predict, forecast, prophesy, foretell, prognosticate, forebode, bode, augur, spell, foretoken, presage, portend, foreshow, foreshadow, forerun, herald, point to, betoken, indicate?"
"I don't know." "What are you?"
"I'm Nesbitt."
"There's not a zodiacal sign called Nesbitt!"
"All right, Derry and Toms."
"Aquarius, Scorpio, Virgo... Derry and Toms — April 29th to March 22nd. Even dates only."
"Well, what does it presage?"
"You have green, scaly skin and a soft, yellow underbelly with a series of fin-like ridges running down your spine and tail. Although lizard-like in shape, you can grow anything up to 30 feet in length with huge teeth that can bite off great rocks and trees. You inhabit arid sub-tropical zones and wear spectacles."
"It's very good about the spectacles."
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