# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/41 "2011-01-03T04:01:45Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > I thought they were gonna look like [this](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1887735296/nm1072555). I, for one, _ **really welcome** _ that new overlord! ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/42 "2011-01-03T04:37:24Z")
[ul] [li]Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) will suffer repeated bouts of hoof’'n’mouth, however, the media will fail to accurately report it, even though the disease will spread among many of his colleagues.[/li][li] Congressman John Boehner (R-OH) will claim Johnson’s No More Tears baby shampoo a fraud and will open a Congressional investigation into false advertising.[/li][li] Cecil Adams will enter a cage match with Marilyn vos Savant to settle the issue once and for all. However, vos Savant will be found to have cheated using an iPhone app connected to the SDMB.[/li][li]There will be an NFL strike/lockout. The public will not sympathize, unless the owners and player agree to donating their grossly excessive player/owner income to lengthening the unemployment period by an additional 99 weeks.[/li][li]New York City will suffer another blizzard, crippling the city for three days. The New York-based media will give it excessive, Chicken Little coverage while 95 percent of the country will tune out, preferring to watch American Idol reruns.[/li][/ul] ---
**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 4, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/43 "2011-01-04T01:42:13Z")
Some Utopian predictions: -Mitt Romney gets such a resounding lead in the polls that most other Republican candidates drop out by the end of 2011. -Kim Jong-Il dies and Kim Jong-Un purges the extremnists (with some covert US and ROK support) and announces to reunify with the South in a few years. -Robert Mugabe dies and Morgan Tsvangari becomes President of Zimbabwe starting democratic reforms. -Omar al-Bashir dies and South Sudan peacefully votes for independence. The Darfur genocide ends. -A massive crackdown on both sides of the border results in thousands of Drug Cartel members being arrested and drug violence going down massively. -Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri are killed in US airstrikes. -The Taliban high command is killed by US troops while much of the Taliban defects over to the Afghan government resulting in a great victory there. -The economy continues its sluggish recovery and begins to grow again ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/44 "2011-01-04T03:51:09Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Some Utopian predictions: > > -Mitt Romney gets such a resounding lead in the polls that most other Republican candidates drop out by the end of 2011. > -Kim Jong-Il dies and Kim Jong-Un purges the extremnists (with some covert US and ROK support) and announces to reunify with the South in a few years. > -Robert Mugabe dies and Morgan Tsvangari becomes President of Zimbabwe starting democratic reforms. > -Omar al-Bashir dies and South Sudan peacefully votes for independence. The Darfur genocide ends. > -A massive crackdown on both sides of the border results in thousands of Drug Cartel members being arrested and drug violence going down massively. > -Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri are killed in US airstrikes. > -The Taliban high command is killed by US troops while much of the Taliban defects over to the Afghan government resulting in a great victory there. > -The economy continues its sluggish recovery and begins to grow again Boy, there’s sure a lot of dying and killing and stuff in Utopia . . . ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/45 "2011-03-29T00:19:18Z")
I was \*so \*close - clearly I meant a massive earthquake will happen in a \*country \*that starts with the letter J… ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/46 "2011-12-28T01:00:58Z")
I fear I scored quite poorly. In the tradition of “real” psychics, I will allow you to interpret your own predictions and rate yourself. > [@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: > > 1. A massive earthquake will hit the western part of the US in a month that starts with the letter J. This will be one of the largest in recent history. **I will give myself a 1/2 a point. Clearly I meant in a country that starts with a J, not a month.** > > 2. A huge Air Traffic accident will take place in May or June, further crushing the already soft air travel market. **This must be scored a zero.** > > 3. The Economy will gradually stabilize, despite dire predictions to the contrary. Both the Republicans and the Democrats will take credit for this. **I will give myself a 1/2 a point. The economy is somewhat better, but rather than taking the credit, both parties are placing blame for it not being fully recovered.** > > 4. New artifacts will be found calling into doubt the beliefs of a major religion. Skeptics will embrace the findings, but the true believers will call it a hoax. **Zero points.** > > 5. A major breakthrough in medicine will be announced, along the lines of a cure for cancer or a vaccination for AIDS. **I fear I must take a zero on this as well.** > > 6. In a month that is associated with cool weather, a cyber-attack will be made on the central hubs that support the Internet. This attack will be caught in time and the event will go virtually unnoticed by the general public. \*\*I will award a 1/2. There was an attack on wall street that went virtually unnoticed. \*\* > > 7. Khadaji will once again break his vow to lose weight and get healthy. **Zero. I lost 40 lbs in 2011 and only gained 8 back.** \*\*Although I’m not sure yet that we could call me \*healthy. \*Still, no points. \*\* > > 8. A young woman with a great body and little talent will have a number one record. Pundits will point out that sex sells, but her supporters will compare her to a young Madonna. **I think this is probably true, but since I don’t know who I predicted, I won’t take a point.** So: I think it adds up to 1 1/2 of 8. (And that was generous.) Less than 20% correct. How did you guys make out? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/47 "2011-12-28T01:18:11Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > More and more people will die who have never died before. Mine hit the bullseye. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/48 "2011-12-28T02:22:56Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > I lost 40 lbs in 2011 That’s impressive in itself! I failed to predict that I got a job this year, which turned out to be my ideal job in almost every way. If I was any kind of genuine psychic I would’ve known about that. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/49 "2011-12-28T03:34:22Z")
A GOP presidential candidate will commit suicide. All evidence to the contrary, tin foil hat types will blame the white house. There will be a huge earthquake in Greece. 7-8 level scale. Israel will attack Iran with a commando team. 2 nuclear ships will sink at sea; international safety issues will be addressed in name only. Crime will jump to record levels in the US; Authorities will be stymied by the huge support the unemployed general public gives the fugitives. There will be several gun-rampages by disgruntled ex-employees, but it will be the one that table-sweeps a Board of Directors meeting that will ‘shock the establishment’. There will be many airplane crashes, but most of the small plane crashes will be bankruptcy suicides. A chip will be developed and mass-produced which fools EZ-PASS into thinking tolls have been paid. Unemployment riots will start to happen in Europe. A country in South America will explode an atomic bomb. A form of sea life will unexpectedly begin to die off; discovery of the disease/poison behind it will take years. I’ll have lunch with a celebrity (& win the lottery the same day). Hell, a guy can dream, can’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/50 "2011-12-28T09:48:11Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > That’s impressive in itself! > > I failed to predict that I got a job this year, which turned out to be my ideal job in almost every way. If I was any kind of genuine psychic I would’ve known about that. Congratulations! I hope you are enjoying it. **Count Blucher** are they your 2012 predictions? I’ll start a second thread for those next week. ---
**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 28, 2011, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/51 "2011-12-28T10:43:39Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Boy, there’s sure a lot of dying and killing and stuff in Utopia . . . Gotta break a lotta eggs to make a big-ass omelet… ---
**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 28, 2011, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/52 "2011-12-28T10:46:19Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > 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. Got the first one right- YEAH! Other than the anti-Obama nuts yammering away as usual- I consider the AntiChrist prediction a Fail. Same with the rest INCLUDING the blizzard during my Jan vacation. Yay! ---
**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 28, 2011, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/53 "2011-12-28T10:57:22Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Some Utopian predictions: > > -Mitt Romney gets such a resounding lead in the polls that most other Republican candidates drop out by the end of 2011. > -Kim Jong-Il dies and Kim Jong-Un purges the extremnists (with some covert US and ROK support) and announces to reunify with the South in a few years. > -Robert Mugabe dies and Morgan Tsvangari becomes President of Zimbabwe starting democratic reforms. > -Omar al-Bashir dies and South Sudan peacefully votes for independence. The Darfur genocide ends. > -A massive crackdown on both sides of the border results in thousands of Drug Cartel members being arrested and drug violence going down massively. > -Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri are killed in US airstrikes. > -The Taliban high command is killed by US troops while much of the Taliban defects over to the Afghan government resulting in a great victory there. > -The economy continues its sluggish recovery and begins to grow again Nope. 1/3 (KJI did die). Nope. 2/3? (al-Bashir lives on) Nope. 1/4 (Bin Laden was not killed in an airstrike) Nope. Yep. 2.25 out of 8. And if you count Part-Rights as full points- a full 50%. Let’s give Qin some credit. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593/54 "2011-12-30T15:13:33Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Congratulations! I hope you are enjoying it. > > **Count Blucher** are they your 2012 predictions? I’ll start a second thread for those next week. Yeah, I messed up. And with [the fire on the Delta IV](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16361825), that prediction is probably right out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2011-amateur-psychic-predictions-thread/564593.md?page=2)