What freakishly bizzare but accurate things have you predicted years in advance?

I'm not talking about predicting consequences two or three years down the road. I'm talking full-out, wholy random, never-would-have-guessed-it things you have predicted which actually came true like 10 years later.

I have a couple. Don't ask me how I predicted them, because I'm not going to tell you, but I did.

1. The concept of the movie "The Day after Tommorrow." Okay, I'll admit--what disaster movies these days aren't predicatable.

2. Joe Carter hitting a walk-off homerun to win a World Series. I did this long before 1993, when Joe Carter actually did hit a walk-off homerun to win a World Series.

3. (And you'll hate me for this one) The presidency of George W. Bush. I pegged it back in Poppy's administration.*
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*About #3, I said I could predict the future. I didn't say I could change it.

...I predicted this very thread.


(spooky music)

You're damn good.

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You knew it.

...post #14

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Very good.

I'll just plead the 5th and keep those conversations among friends.

It didn't come to me in a flash or anything.

When I was a kid, I had an active imagination, and always liked to imagine myself doing very cool things as an adult.

I liked baseball and would sometimes dream about being a major league baseball player, and I would play on a team with a bunch of real baseball players. The thing is, I was also taught to be humble about things. So instead of myself being the player who hit the home run to win the World Series, I imagined myself being on base while Joe Carter hit a home run to win the World Series. Why Joe Carter? I don't really know--he was just a random, semi-decent ballplayer who I imagined was also on my team. Now, when Joe Carter actually did hit a home run to win the 1993 World Series, I think I just had to pinch myself to make sure it wasn't true. Too bad I was still a kid and couldn't bet on such things. Talk about a random guess for an unlikely scenario.

As for George W. Bush? I also imagined myself having to tell the President some very important information (I forgot what). George Bush Sr. was the president. I didn't want to have to think of a totally imaginary president, so I just figured it to be the current president's son. I knew from a picture of the Bush family Bush Sr. had a son named George, and a President George Bush Jr. (aka George W. Bush) sounded better than Neil, Jeb or Marvin. Now, I don't remember predicting Dubya to be the total dumbass screwup that he is. I did remember him being something of an asshole, which was probably because I found his father to be something of an asshole, even as a kid.

And for The Day After Tommorow? I don't know, I always just thought it would have been cool for someone to come up with a movie where the whole world freezes over and people have to trudge through the snow.

because we have no candidate that will win right now without Al Gore and he isn't jumping in

Since about the 2nd year that he was with the Phillies, it always seemed obvious to me that he would wind up with the Yankees.

I predicted several years in advance that not only would Cal Ripken Jr. not get injured and break Lou Gerhig's consecutive game streak, but he would hit a home run on the game that he did it. And that it would be a shot to left center field, a few rows up.

And lo and behold, September 5, 1995, he did.

The astroturf that looks like real grass. I predicted that, too.

Seriously.

The day I missed the call from the Dr's office (and they left a message asking me to "give the office a call at my convenience") I called my husband, crying, and told him I KNEW the office was calling about my blood screening, I KNEW they were going to tell me it had come back abnormal, and that the "abnormality" was going to indicate an increased likelihood of Downs (an amnio is required to definitively diagnose Downs.)

The call could have been unrelated to my blood test, the test could've indicated something else, and the test frequently indicates increased likelihoods, even though there is actually nothing wrong. I was only 24, so it wasn't as though I *should* have had reason to suspect as much. My husband thought I was nuts. Apparently not!

That's the only weird instance I've ever noted in my own experience. I think sometimes our bodies "know" things that our minds don't/can't necessarily calculate or acknowledge.

In 1945, at age 10, I asked "Won't we someday run out of oil?" Seemed logical to me but I was told absolutely not, we'd never run out of oil.

Was also told, when I asked, that Negroes liked to ride on the back of the bus.

And that Jesus really would send everyone to hell who hadn't heard of him.

Not only did I predict it. I discovered it and then invented the computer, the internet and pantyhose.

Note the dates:







I rest my face.

http://steponnopets.com/peo">President Evil Online has risen from the grave!

After all, they had no idea that the levees would break in New Orleans.

They couldn't expect that airplanes could be hijacked and used as terrorist tools on 9-11, even after reading Daily Intellegence Estimates titled "Bin Laden determined to strike the US".

And that invading Iraq would cause great destablization of that country where ethnic strife and civil war would break out and our troops would be viewed as occupiers and not liberators.

Their words, not mine.

http://steponnopets.com/peo">President Evil Online has risen from the grave!

I read a wonderfully prescient article by William Pfaff where he predicted that the downfall of Communism in Yugoslavia would bring about a viscious civil war, as the citizens would no longer define themselves by their communist beliefs, but by old ethnic and nationalistic divisions.

I went around telling people of this thesis, and everyone was "oh no, they are a democracy now, and none of that will happen." Pfaff was completely right.

predicted the same thing before it happened. She kept saying "Watch out for Yugoslavia-it's much different than Romania and other surrounding countries-it will descend into civil war."

My prediction was back in 1998-during l'affaire Lewinsky. When it was 24/7 I turned to my then-roommate and said "Someone, somewhere a big ball will be dropped and something really terrible is going to happen because the right people aren't paying attention and are too distracted by all this crap."
It took awhile for that "terrible thing" to happen but Congress was so intent on punishing Clinton (instead of letting him hang himself) that they (the Repub Congress) are as responsible for not stopping 9-11 as anyone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope

Me and my friend thought of that idea . . . the same year Josh Spodek, unbeknownst to the rest of the world, incorporated that into a business. We have the prior art to prove it.

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who the killer was.

*spoiler alert.*



I said, "It's the dead body in the middle of the floor."

I was right. :)

membrane keyboards

stereoscopic imaging


sigh.... :(

I distinctly remember telling my brother that, since most songs tell a story, you could make a miniature movie about it, and people would eat it up, if you could put those mini movies on t.v.. I told him that someday it would probably happen. Of course, we were both high at the time.

Before the first shuttle launch (1981):

1. A shuttle would blow up during launch. Although, I expected a pad explosion from main engines failure.

2. A shuttle would be burn up on re-entry due to tile loss.

As a matter of fact, it IS rocket science. There were many problems evident during design and development that made the potential for those disasters seem likely.

You'd know the risks.

They show a whole reel of them in the middle of The Right Stuff. Eerily similar to what happened with Challenger.

the presidential election because of their inept and wrong-headed campaigns.

I also predicted that the 2006 Dem Congress would blow the opportunity offered by their electoral victory because of their unwillingness to unite against the Bushboy.

I guess that means I win

Although I said it kind of sarcastically at the time...

such as the box of wine.

I came up with the idea of Mideaval Knievel almost 2 decades ago, and saw it in a commercial a few years ago, but that doesn't count really.

Also, the idea for a cereal restaurant (I have other restaurant ideas that I don't think have happened yet).

I am so lame.

on archaic topics. Then they invented trivial pursuit and darn if they didn't get wealthy on it.

come back from the dead????

I saw it happening. :)