[kj] Wormwood star / "Asteroooiiddd!"

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

So a lot of you probably know these lyrics from "Asteroid" come directly 
from the Bible's "Book of Revelations" (or Apocalypse of St John for you 
old school Catholics):


"And the third angel sounded,
And there fell a great star from heaven,
Burning as it were a lamp,
And it fell upon the third part of the waters...."


Of course, the Bible does not then go on to have, in all caps, 
"ASTEROOOIIIIIDDDDD!" as its next line. The prophet Jaz added that.

However, what it does say is that the, er "asteroid" that falls down is 
a "a star called Wormwood." There's a local band, World Burns to Death, 
who have a song called "Wormwood Star" (about the Chernobyl nuclear 
disaster, actually).

"And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the 
waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they 
were made bitter." (Revelation 8:10, 11 - KJB).  So basically it's an 
absinthe asteroid or what?

-0liver