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Anchor text: ''"There was a guy who used to walk up and down London's Oxford Street, I imagine it was the sixties, wearing a sandwich board bearing the phrase, "The End is Nigh". Though he was warning of the impending Christian vision of Apocalypse, the phrase entered the popular consciousness as a slightly derogatory term for someone or something warning of impending doom."''

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