Were I a serious and sober individual, I might suggest that Sampiro stop pointing out things that are funny, for the safety of people who are physically close to high government officials. (“What about the children?! :eek:”)
That would be
WRONG
. Sampiro is just too (Dick Cheney word)-ing funny to ask him to stop. Or even to slow down.
Instead, I’ll ask if there have been other times the SDMB has predcted the future. Jeanne Dixon got mileage out of less …
And thanks to Biggirl for [thread=350971]this[/thread], where I first saw Sampiro’s cite.
(Mods - please move this where you think best. It’s Mundane and Pointless, but it’s also a General Question and About This Message Board.)
I think it might actually be interesting for the Dopers to make a bunch of predictions for the next year and see how we stack up against tabloid psychics.
If we’re competing against tabloid psychics, let me just pluck the low-hanging fruit and say Jesus will not come back in the next year, nor will humanity be wiped out by a comet, Biblical or Nostradamical prophecy come true, alien invasion or resurrected army of rabid Elvis ninjas.
I’ll be back to see if I can think of anything a little more outlandish.
I can’t find the thread, but a poster once asked in GQ if it would be possible to land all planes quickly in an emergency. His/her reason for asking was all the hulabaloo over Y2K a week or so after he posted the question 9/11 happened.
Then I predict that bird flu will devastate the Earth in exactly the same way that SARS did, only not quite as badly. I also predict that not one single fearmonger or journalist will apologise for not doing their jobs properly.
I predict that there will be fighting in the middle east, over religion and politics.
NASA will cancel an ambitious program. ESA, too.
After the next presidential election, the party that loses will accuse the new administration of being incompetent and corrupt. They will gain support for this from certain pundits in the entertainment industry.
The “Adult Swim” block on the Cartoon Network will premiere some weird, tripped-out cartoons produced in-house over the next year.
At some point, I will watch an anime series or movie that will have a mind-blowingly depressing ending.
I predict Dubya will find a way to reinstute a military draft policy, but under the guise of “Minority Job Recruitment” and thereby reducing unemployment.