Penn Jillette: We'll play along. This
Antichrist—what do we
call him?
John Hogue: [Consulting his own book] This one is called "Mabus", m-a-b-u-s. There are a couple of ways to
decode that word. M-a-b-u-s, uuh, reversed, which is a common practice in the 16th century, becomes "Subam". If you can then,
uh, always replace one letter with another…
Penn Jillette: Who says you can
do that!?
John Hogue: …the "u", the "a";
Saddam.
Penn Jillette: ...as in Saddam Hussein. But what's this about
moving letters around?
James Randi: The rule of dropping a letter out or adding a letter is something
invented by the Nostradamians, because if you add or subtract a letter, or add
and subtract a letter to any word, you can make it into almost anything you want, if you move it around enough.
Penn Jillette: …which is
exactly what this whackjob is doing! Ladies and gentlemen, this is
the very definition of bullshit.