[Funk]

Aliens will visit the earth, grab a quick bite to eat, stretch their legs, and then zip away in their UFO because their leader says they are "making good time". The people Earth will be initially confused, but will quickly draft plans to erect a huge sign on the moon saying "Rest Stop: 240,000 miles".

In a surprise move Google will change its slogan from "Don't be evil" to "WWDVD: What Would Darth Vader Do". An angry George Lucas will sue, lose in court, and in a fit of childish rage re-re-edit Star Wars IV, changing Greedo's name to Google and have him shoot first - again. Google will respond by sendinig George Lucas a witty e-mail questioning his man-hood and threatening to unleash its army of web spiders to "index his juicy brain meats".

The Governor or Delaware will be applauded for legalizing same sex marriage. And then decried for claiming the ancient privilege of "first night" with the brides in all lesbian marriages. He will prublicly refer to lesbian marriages as a "two for one special" and state that "skanks" are automatically exempted from the rule.

Al Gore will launch another public speaking tour titled "An Inconvenient Truth 2: Are you Deaf? Am I Talking to an Empty Room?". He will make several controversial remarks including a call to reduce methane gas emissions by encouraging all Americans to "just hold it in" and proposing stiff legal penaties for fraud in a "He Who Smelt it Dealt It Act". He will further outrage the public by taking credit for inventing Global Warming.

PETA will launch a new public awareness campaign titled "Vegetarians are the Ubermensch". They will claim that scientific studies prove that "all meat eaters must die" for the good for the commonweal. The American public will be too busy watching a "Happy Days" reunion show to protest the passage of the "Extermination and Annihilation of the Meat Eaters Bill" (known as the EAT ME Bill).

This post has been edited by Funk: 30 January 2009 - 11:14 AM

[Furor Thompsonicus]

Furor invents his ridiculous-yet-effective Monofilament Chainsaw to massacre those who won't stop saying "...in this economy."

[unspeakable]

A "new" movie will come out, or rather a "re-envisioning" of an older movie (probably from the 80's). This movie will either let down or outright appall anyone who remembers and liked the original, but those who have no memory of the original will declare that it was "O.k." and probably never take the subject matter seriously ever again. Within a month, this new movie and its original subject matter will wash out of all peoples' minds forever, until they wander down the toy aisle of their local big box store and see action figures for this new movie marked with bright red or yellow "clearance" price tags. That's when people will say, "Oh yeah, they remade that movie, didn't they?" Forgetfulness will then be reinstated by the time said people are in the checkout line.


Gas prices will go up.


Microsoft will release a patch for their latest OS, removing all the features you like, and implementing features such as "crashes all the time," "forces you to use Mediaplayer," "forces you to use IE," "eats all your resources," "occasionally formats your hard drive," and the much lauded "stores valuable information about you for Microsoft marketing." Somewhere buried deep within the their labyrinthine user agreement is the line, "It's our Operating System, we reserve the right to know what you are doing with it. If you don't want us logging your keystrokes and deleting your illegally downloaded content, we suggest you go get Lunix. LOLs."


A celebrity will be arrested for D.U.I.


Somewhere near October the Comitatus Front page will mysteriously come to life, only to fall back into a tryptophan induced coma some weeks later.

This post has been edited by unspeakable: 31 January 2009 - 06:46 AM

[Ozmodeus]

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A "new" movie will come out, or rather a "re-envisioning" of an older movie (probably from the 80's). This movie will either let down or outright appall anyone who remembers and liked the original, but those who have no memory of the original will declare that it was "O.k." and probably never take the subject matter seriously ever again. Within a month, this new movie and its original subject matter will wash out of all peoples' minds forever, until they wander down the toy aisle of their local big box store and see action figures for this new movie marked with bright red or yellow "clearance" price tags. That's when people will say, "Oh yeah, they remade that movie, didn't they?" Forgetfulness will then be reinstated by the time said people are in the checkout line.

Truly you are a seer. Friday the 13th, anyone? Or "My Bloody Valentine" 3-D!

[Funk]

After careful review of all entries, Unspeakable takes the prize for the most correct predicitons of what would happen in 2009. He wins the right to call himself "Chief Prognosticator of the Meadhall". Congrats.

So Unspeakable if you would start us off with a new thread predicting what will happen in 2010, we would all be grateful.

[Furor Thompsonicus]

Horrorama marched on till Turkey Day, but other than that...it's like he SAW IT.

[unspeakable]

Furor Thompsonicus, on 12 January 2010 - 11:36 AM, said:

Horrorama marched on till Turkey Day, ...

Tryptophan dude. Tryptophan.

Boosh.

[Furor Thompsonicus]

Kiiiillllllll meeeeeeeee!