Back in '97, I thought that the 1.95Gb HDD on my Compaq would be more space than I would ever need.
I remember saying out loud to people that the Germanies would never reunite, because Russia would never allow it.
It’s on a thread here somewhere, I predicted Dirty would end Christina Aguilara’s career. I’m not sure that’s quite the case.
Yeah, I told my writing classes the same thing the day before the election. Two days later, I came in with a big “remember when I said we’d know who was President by today…? Never mind!”
“Man, that Titanic movie is so gonna flop. It’s gonna be another Waterworld.”
My exact words, those. :smack:
Heh, I remember thinking the same thing way back when I got an 80 MB HD.
My prediction? I thought Late Night with Conan was going to bomb and be cancelled after a year (If he was licky enough to last that long). What’s it been now, about a decade? And now I really like the show. :smack:
Damnit, lucky enough.
Ahhhhhhhhhh. Here’s a few.
“Of course O.J. will be found guilty. Wanna bet twenty bucks on that?”
“Well, you know I would have preferred Michael had settled this thing IN court… but I guess the good thing that can come out of this is that he’ll never do something as stupid as having sleepovers with other people’s kids again.”
“This Napster thing is kinda fun, but it’s so slow to download files over dial-up; it’ll never get poular.”
“Ahhhh, don’t download that. Somebody just named the file that. That’s not really Pamela and Tommy Lee on that video, no way.”
“When they straighten out the chads, Gore will win. I’m sure of it.”
“Latrell Sprewell choked his coach? Shit, guess he’s out a job.”
“No Child Left Behind is probably one of the best pieces of legislature to come of Washington.”
“There’s no way R. Kelly made videotapes of him having sex with dozens of underage girls!”
“What? Mauled by a tiger? Jesus, whata stupid way to die. He won’t last the next few days.”
"Who the hell would watch something as stupid as “The Simple Life?”
“There’s no way that ditzy chick is Lionel Richie’s natural daughter!!” (I was half-right; she’s adopted.)
“Well, there’s no way they’ll continue 8 Simple Rules now.”
“Omarossa has got to be a plant.”
“This Monica scandal may be big, but there’s no way Congress would seriously try to impeach President Clinton over a blowjob. It would make our country the laughingstock of the world”
“Saddam seems to be cooperating in good faith with the inspectors. There’s zero evidence that Iraq poses an imminent threat to the U.S. The United Nations opposes the war. Millions are rallying against it. It’s obvious that we shouldn’t go to war. No way President Bush will invade now.”
:smack:
“The Cubs are winning it all this year.”
I’ve said this every year since 1982, and again this season. I’m not wrong this year, though. 
. Just wait and see. I’m sure of it.
Strangely enough, I’ve got lots of bad predictions about boy bands - I don’t even listen to their music that much, which is probably why I have no clue whatsoever:
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[li]The Backstreet Boys are just copying New Kids on the Block (showing my age here), whoever wants to see/hear that nowadays?[/li][li]Take That? Surely Gary Barlow will strike it big afterwards, he seems to have what it takes to be a great entertainer.[/li][li]N’Sync? They are just copying the Backstreet Boys, whoever wants to…oh.[/li][li]Justin Timberlake? What a bad idea going solo - that’ll never amount to anything.[/li][/ul]
Also: Dumb movie prediction of the year:
Who in their right mind would want to watch a movie based on a Disney ride? That one is a bomb for sure. (To be fair I didn’t know about Johnny Depp when I said that and I COULD have been right - exhibit A: “Haunted Mansion”)
They had already tanked out with “The Country Bears”, based on the Country Bear Jamboree (although, to be fair, CBJ is a show, not a ride per se), hence the nervousness when “Pirates of the Carribean” was ready to be released.
As for me, I thought Jerry Seinfeld did some pretty good, not terrific but pretty good, stand-up routines, but he’d never make it as a tv series. Uh-huh.
My worst prediction?
I remember watching a “We interrupt this broadcast” special message describing how men employed by the Committee to Re-Elect the President had broken into Democratic campaign headquarters in someplace called the Watergate Hotel.
I said, “Boy, somebody’s head is going to roll over this!”
Accurate enough, but off by a couple of orders of magnitude.
‘I will never get a mobile/cell phone - I don’t see the need’
that would be the war in the former Yugoslavia. I’ve had been there, and I’ve been mightily impressed with the cross-culture feeling (say, the old cute orthodox church 50 yards away of the mosque, the Austria-like towns in the north and the turkish-like towns in the south, etc… ) and the way peopele speaking different languages, having obviously different cultural backgounds seemed to go along with each other so well. Plus, Yugoslavia seemed strongly united, following Tito’s policies.
When the medias began to state that Yugoslavia was on the verge of collapse, that a civil war could erupt, etc…I just didn’t believe them. Such a thing wasn’t possible in such a country. I remember clearly that the day right before the beginning of the conflict (an air raid against Slovenia, IIRC), I was reading the paper in a cafe and just shrugged my shoulders when I read that according to them, a civil war was about to break out. I was so wrong…
This always comes back to my mind when I make predictions about the possible evolution of some issue in the international field. There are times when you hold some preconceived feelings so dearly that no blatant fact will be allowed to challenge them until the bombs begin to fall.
after a job interview: “Boy I OWNED those people! Why even bothering going back to my old job…”
On September 10, 2001, I woke up to my alarm clock playing NPR. They announced that Ahmed Shah Massoud (The Lion of Pjanshir) had been killed by a pair of Taliban suicide bombers disguised as an interview crew (the camera was the bomb). I shook my head for a moment, sat up in bed, and muttered something like, “Ahhh, shit. He was our last shot at catching that Osama yahoo. Now we’re going to have to go in and help them overthrow the Taliban. Well, hell. That won’t happen until I’m long gone from the Air Force.”
I’m watching “120 Minutes” in the middle of the night on MTV, I think it’s 1991. They play the video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
I said to myself “They’ll never play this during the day.”
(In my defense, MTV was non-stop Poison and Bel Biv Devoe in those days.)
Watching Twelve Angry Men for the first time, I was convinced, UTTERLY CONVINCED that Henry Fonda was the murderer. I don’t know what I’d been watching previously, but I guess I got the wrong idea.
I pronounced Elmo to be the most hateable puppet on the otherwise sublime Sesame Street, and made a big speech about how he’d quickly vanish into the ether. I was right about the “hateable” bit, but otherwise as far as I can see he now owns the controlling interest in CTW.
I thought they would never, never be able to do anything about P2P.
And of course, by the year 2000 we’ll all be living in cities on the moon. I still believe that one.
I thought that about pretty much every comedian-sitcom… Especially ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’. “Eh, he’s a decent comedian, but there’s no way he’ll carry a show…”
The one comedian I was really looking forward to seeing in a sitcom was… Richard Jeni. And his sitcom SUCKED and rightfully bombed.