# The 2011 Amateur Psychic Predictions thread **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 18, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593 "2010-12-18T03:37:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![asylum119](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@asylum119](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asylum119)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2010, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/21 "2010-12-26T12:08:28Z")
I predict some one is going to take the time to sign up to this forum and get upset because no link in signatures … Grrrrrr ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/22 "2010-12-26T20:01:23Z")
After a tragic and near fatal accident during a routine full body scanning at the airport, the scanners will be proven unsafe and removed from airports. **OR** a pilot exempt from undergoing scanning will crash a plane and later be revealed as an American who underwent Al Qaeda training after finding sympathy with their cause during college. A well-known celebrity will have triplets, and offers to have put them on TV to star as the offspring of characters on a popular show will pour in before they’re a month old. Several large species of mammals will be discovered in a remote, previously unexplored area this year, renewing the cryptozoologial arguments for/against the existence of bigfoot. Before Christmas one of the newly discovered mammals will be featured in a SYFY original movie “[new mammal] VS Bigfoot.” A democratic member of Congress will be hospitalized indefinitely when s/he disrupts a congressional hearing to plead with the other members to put more money into the military to protect us from the alien invasion likely to occur December 22nd, 2012. FOX News will air the footage 12 times a day for three weeks solid. Sarah Palin will be the victim of an assassination attempt by a moderate-leaning member of the republican party, and will be scared off from ever running for office again. Instead she’ll concentrate on her reality show instead (until she’s eaten by a bear in 2013 during the show’s highest ever rated episode) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/23 "2010-12-26T22:11:58Z")
The world will end on May 21. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/24 "2010-12-27T17:32:18Z")
The Rapture will not occur. At least three U.S. leaders and one European leader will be suspected of being the future AntiChrist. Sarah Palin will be seriously considered to replace Michael Steele as the leader of the Republican National Committee (perhaps to keep her from seeking the Presidency.) Art Bell will announce either a return to the air separate from CoastToCoastAM or a terminal illness (not so much a prediction as an extrapolation based on certain events of the past week.) Southeast Indiana will be immobilized by a blizzard in the last week of January, spoiling Doper FriarTed’s vacation. He will seek to prevent it via prayer and/or magick. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/25 "2010-12-27T18:34:28Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > While in the grocery store today I saw that the trash magazines had already started their annual predictions. So I propose a game where the SMDB makes their predictions as well. Year end we’ll see who is most accurate. Your predictions may be serious or silly, whatever you want. I’ll start: Your number 3 is a given. More of a certainty, on both counts, than a prediction. The other 6? Highly unlikely. For your prediction number 8, I was going to ask “Who’s Khadaji?” 😛 Mine are below. I haven’t read the rest of the thread, so some may be duplicative of other posters’ predictions. 1. Blockbuster will shut its last store, but will continue to do online business, using the Netflix business model in an attempt to stave off collapse…this will eventually fail. 2. The economy will recover faster than any economist today is saying. 3. 4 more states will sign Gay Marriage into law. 4. China will sign a major trade agreement with India 5. I’ll be less dismissive, especially of my wife. More of a resolution actually. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/26 "2010-12-27T18:46:40Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Her replacment will be Leah Ward Spears, the former Chief Justice of Georgia. > > New York, Maryland, Rhode Island, and possibly Hawai’i will legalize same-sex marriage by legislative vote. In California the 9th Circuit will dismiss the appeal in Perry v. Schwarzenegger due to lack of Article 3 standing; SCOTUS will decline to intervene and same-sex couple will be able to marry again in time for a June wedding. You got my prediction #3, although instead of Hawaii, as crazy as this sounds, I’m seeing Indiana or Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/27 "2010-12-27T18:49:57Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > The fact that I am professional psychic prevents me from entering but I’d just like to say congratulations to David Fincher, Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Annette Bening and Christian Bale on the Oscars and also say what a tragedy that you all died in the disaster at the ceremony. > > I guess that should be **all will die** … or ‘all will have died’. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/28 "2010-12-27T18:51:57Z")
> [@Shawn1767](#): > > Psychics will continue to remember the one or two hits they get and ignore the massive number of failures. And continue to be taken seriously and sought for council. Yeah, we’re doomed. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/29 "2010-12-27T18:54:18Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > For your prediction number 8, I was going to ask “Who’s Khadaji?” 😛 I should have said your prediction number 7, not 8. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/30 "2010-12-27T19:18:09Z")
A Republican congressperson who claims straightness will be caught being gay and will actually own up to it, and his approval ratings will rise. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/31 "2010-12-27T22:19:55Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Your number 3 is a given. More of a certainty, on both counts, than a prediction. The other 6? Highly unlikely. For your prediction number 8, I was going to ask “Who’s Khadaji?” 😛 > > \ Ha! You wait and see, when \*all \*mine come true people will bow down to my omnicieces, er, Omnisiance, mmmm, All-knowing-ness. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/32 "2010-12-28T03:44:29Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > There shall be rumours of things going astray, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o’clock. 😃 And the mother and the daughter shall stroll through the mall, and the mother will hear the pleadings of the daughter to stop and buyeth her a $20 eyeshadow at Sephora; but the daughter’s pleas shall fall upon stony ground. The price of gas, now $3.25 a gallon, will rise and rise and rise. As will the price of food. ---
**Author:** ![Pandoranoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@Pandoranoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandoranoid)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/33 "2010-12-28T04:50:10Z")
Caesar dressing will be outlawed in seven states after a highly publicized anchovy scandal involving al-qaeda. Osama Bin Laden will come out of hiding to co-star in a zany, ‘Odd Couple’-esque reality tv program with Carrot Top. Congress will not do a whole hell of a lot besides whine about each other. The moon will explode. No one will really care. God will die. No one will notice. That Kate girl the prince is marrying will be caught on tape eating a ‘special’ brownie and giggling profusely. Everyone will go apeshit. Sarah Palin will perform fairly well on ‘Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader: Celebrity Week!’, but she’ll still lose. The coast of Guyana will be devastated by a hurricane. Everyone will briefly wander where that is. Lady Gaga will die in a tragic, drunken impaling-on-her-own-hat incident that some suspect was a suicide. ‘Poker Face’ will suddenly seem way existential. Penny loafers will come back in a big way. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/34 "2011-01-01T22:09:46Z")
Incest and cocaine will be decriminalized, but only when indulged in simultaneously and in public. The incidence of suicide by blunt instrument in the industrialized countries will decline by 23%. By mid-year, there will emerge a general consensus among scientists and media pundits alike that things in general are getting “slinkier.” The Antichrist will come, and gather an army of followers. It won’t be much like Left Behind, more like Omen III: The Final Conflict. (Differing from both in that the Lord of Darkness will be Swedish.) However, the Great Beast Who Is Called Dragon will be forced out of leadership by a group of idealist zealots who accuse him of compromising, waffling, and betraying the true Satanic principles of the Movement. The Prince of This World’s catty tell-all book will be remaindered, and he will end up selling timeshares in Reno (with unaccountably poor success, in view of his presumable talents). The Antichristian Church, meanwhile, will fail to reach consensus on a new leadership, and schism into three hostile sects. One of these will go underground and become what would be classified as a terrorist cult, if that name could be applied to people who spend most of their time wandering around shopping-mall parking lots and letting air out of tires. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/35 "2011-01-01T22:21:02Z")
A major celebrity will experience a sex scandal, and will hold a press conference to gloat. This will be the start of a trend. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/36 "2011-01-01T22:24:32Z")
> [@mittu](#): > > A nuclear weapon will be used in anger for the first time since WWII > [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > I assume since you specify “in anger” that they have been used since WWII only in jest. “Jest” is perhaps too dignified a word, but there have been several crude and embarrassing practical jokes. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/37 "2011-01-01T22:35:10Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > A democratic member of Congress will be hospitalized indefinitely when s/he disrupts a congressional hearing to plead with the other members to put more money into the military to protect us from the alien invasion likely to occur December 22nd, 2012. FOX News will air the footage 12 times a day for three weeks solid. When the invasion actually happens as predicted, Bill O’Reilly will welcome our new echinoderm overlords. They will immediately track him down and eat him. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/38 "2011-01-02T01:24:26Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > The world will end on May 21. October 21st actually. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/39 "2011-01-02T05:46:39Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > When the invasion actually happens as predicted, Bill O’Reilly will welcome our new echinoderm overlords. They will immediately track him down and eat him. Um…the invaders are supposed to look like [this](http://forgetomori.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/projectgrey-io9123.jpg), not [this](http://www.carolguze.com/images/animals/echinoderm.jpg). Doesn’t everyone know that? You should netfix [this documentary](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_(The_X-Files)) on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2011, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/40 "2011-01-02T11:22:31Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Um…the invaders are supposed to look like [this](http://forgetomori.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/projectgrey-io9123.jpg), not [this](http://www.carolguze.com/images/animals/echinoderm.jpg). Doesn’t everyone know that? You should netfix [this documentary](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_%28The_X-Files%29) on the subject. I thought they were gonna look like [this](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1887735296/nm1072555). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593.md?page=3)