I just returned from the grocery store and 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:
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.
A huge Air Traffic accident will take place in May or June, further crushing the already soft air travel market.
The US will declare war on Iraq. (OK, that’s an easy one. )
Ben Affleck and J. Lo will bid each other farewell. (ditto)
The Economy will gradually stabilize, despite dire predictions to the contrary. Both the Republicans and the Democrats will take credit for this.
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.
A major breakthrough in medicine will be announced, along the lines of a cure for cancer or a vaccination for AIDS.
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.
Khadaji will once again break his vow to lose weight and get healthy.
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.
Okay…Some people will die tradically this year…
A few with letters…from the alphabet…
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Also…
I’m seeing…
Movies…
…
Popular movies…
And cheese…whiz…
Movies…cheese whiz… and …rocky balboa…
Ah…There will be another cheesy Rocky movie…It will be popular…
Also, Britney Spears will try to out-sex Christina Agulera, which will ignite a fued of the hottest. This will result in one or both of them doing full-on porn.
The ads will be better than the game for the Super Bowl.
Democrats and Republicans will agree to put aside partisan bickering in the interest of (something or other), and this truce will last less than half an hour.
I foresee that one of the thousands of predictions made this year by “psychics” will prove more or less correct just by chance. The lucky charlatan will then get to use that prediction as proof of his or her powers, long after the incorrect predictions are forgotten.
Something bad will happen… sometime… somewhere… (just kidding).
Actually, I predict something bad will happen July 4, 2003. July 4 being the anniversary of the Horns of Hattin battle, a great victory for the Muhammadans against the Crusading infidels. And being the whole Independence Day, and all.
Art Bell does this kind of thing every year, ya know. But he announced retirement at the end of this year. I liked him better than that George Norey guy.
The US will ALMOST go to war in '03 with North Korea, but actual armed conflict will be forstalled at the very last minute, through a diplomatic mission starring Colin Powell. Unfortunately, peace will break down a few years down the road, and there will be a war in '05 or '06.
Archeologists will uncover remains that are even closer to a missing link between humans and our (presumed) primate ancestors, than anything found before.
There will be an asteroid scare; Australian astronomers will spot a big old rock heading toward earth, and everyone will get all freaked out. Star Wars (not the movie, smartass) will be considered to destroy it, but will be deemed useless. In the end, the rock will miss the Earth.
Amtrack will shut down all service, having been denied another grant from the U.S. Gov’t.
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