Eric Cartman was certainly prescient when he said that indewpendent movies were always about “Gay cowboys eating pudding,” as the success of “Brokeback Mountain” confirmed.
Technically, Taco Bell, and the other chains you mentioned, are owned by Yum! Brands. TB, PH, and KFC were spun off from Pepsico in '99; that company eventually renamed itself Yum!, and bought another company, which owned LJS and A&W.
I wrote a powerful thesis full of imagery supported with cites and a stunning array of bullet points only to be eaten by the infamous SDMB glitch.
I’m not writing it again.
Suffice it to say Graham Greene’s book The Quiet American was written in 1955 and predicts the Vietnam War.
“The rats have business with you, I think.” - Graveyard Shift, Stephen King
I’m a little creeped out by the fact that when I did a Dope search on this line just now, one of the threads that popped up was “Things to do in Princeton, NJ”. :eek:
I was responding to Loach, so not quite a simulpost. One of the Columbine kids wrote in his diary about crashing a plane in New York, although that wasn’t fiction. Point is, a story containing planes-as-missiles isn’t really prescient because the idea itself is so obvious.
I kinda like this one from the onion.
John Lennon plays Private Gripweed in 1967’s How I Won The War. At end of the movie the character is fatally shot and Lennon, holding his arms across his stomach, looks up at the camera and says, “I knew this was gonna happen…didn’t you?” :eek:
H.G.Wells in his short story “The Land Ironclads,” written in 1903, pretty accurately described the development of the tank.
Days of Our Lives ran and adoption story and later a surrogacy story in 1976-1981 that had several elements of the real life “Baby M” surrogacy trial–The surrogate mother’s name was Maggie & her sterile husband was Mickey (the surrogate mother in Baby M was Mary & her sterile husband was Rick); Mickey was claimed to be the father of the adopted child (Mary Beth claimed that Rick was the father of her surrogate child), Maggie lost custody because of her drinking (Rick was a drunk), the father of Maggie’s child was a doctor (the adoptive mother in the Baby M trial was a doctor) and most odd, the adoptive child was named Melissa (Melissa was the name the couple gave to the child, and Maggie’s surrogate child was named Sarah (the name the surrogate gave to the child).
How about a Usenet post from March 2001?
The most prescient thread ever (note the date of the OP):Impossible for every plane to land?
George Orwell 1984 words on the lottery: