Given that a lot - maybe even most - of Nostril's 'prophecies' have been, and still are, taken to refer to things many centuries (pun intended) after they were written, wouldn't people have felt a mite ripped off at the time? "I guess you guys aren't ready for that - but your great-great-great-great grandkids are gonna love it!"
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'