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This is the annual beat the psychics at their own game thread. What will happen in 2009?

My preliminary predictions
- Someone will take attempt to harm the new President of the USA and fail.
- Someone else will actually kill a head of state.
- Unemployment will go up a lot around the world.
- Robert L. will make a recovery and devote himself to various www.stop sites.
-This forum will have its performance issues addressed and then it will grow rapidly as measured by the number of active members (currently 2,654) and number of posts made.
 
No general election in the UK, but two in Japan.

(eta: with the caveat that "general election" can also mean change in leadership - oh, the psychic vibrations are so vague and difficult to interpret...)
 
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My 2009 prediction:

The big foot thread part 2 will reach the same proportion of the big foot thread part 1. Chillzero (or otehr mod) will not be happy that we are breaking again the forum software with a giant thread and rightfully ask us to use instead smaller thread with keywords and thematic, which will we use for the first week before falling back into a big thread, big foot part 3.

Bill Munn will publish something he thinks is the end of the end of the discussion on BF, and everybody will disagree with him.
 
Things will be more like they are than they were and less like they used to be than they used to be.
 
  • Australian farmers will see potential bumper harvests devastated.
  • Financial markets will continue a difficult run. Some major closures, some rescues.
  • Male Hollywood star of the 60s and 70s dies.
  • The Professor fails to mount a genuine bid for the MDC.
  • Shipping disaster.
  • Tragedy in SE Asia around Christmas/New Year.
  • JREF receives legal threat.
  • New phone - so small that inventor loses prototype and plans.
  • Portable music player with more capacity than all the music ever written could fill.
  • Bus tragedy in Europe in spring/summer
 
  • Heavier than normal snowfall in parts of the U.S. Drought in other parts.
  • A hurricane will come ashore and cause considerable damage. Look for this in the summer or early fall.
  • Some early decisions in the Obama administration will trigger concern and protests from the fundamentalist-conservative groups in the U.S.
  • Look for lots of sequels and remakes from Hollywood.
  • Unfortunately, there will be at least one campus shooting in 2009, with fatalities.
  • A disappearance of long standing will be solved when someone stumbles across skeletal remains of the missing person.
  • California is in for mudslides and forest fires.
  • Avocados don't taste like much by themselves. You need salt and some kind of dressing.
  • To the disgruntlement of purists, text-message and internet-bulletin-board shorthand will be recognized in a major dictionary.
 
The latest winner of "The X Factor" will have the most incredible year of her life, and appear on next year's series telling everybody how wonderful it was. However, one of the other acts will actually be more commercially successful.

A new reality TV show will be aired in primetime, but ratings will be disappointing.

Leaked Home Office documents will trigger a minor political scandal culminating in the resignation of a Cabinet member, who will later rejoin the Cabinet in another role.

Inclement weather conditions will paralyse the UK rail system and lead to several road closures, despite the fact (as pointed out by several commentators) that far worse weather passed without incident recently in Norway and Sweden.

Seventeen new posters will shock the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories forum with their revolutionary hypothesis that WTC7 was intentionally demolished with "thermite shaped charges". Twelve of them will later turn out to be Paul Doherty.

Dave
 
Monkeys will invade France and the French will surrender after a week of being pelted with poop.

The Tongan ice skating team will crash and be killed by a gazebo.

Keannu Reeves will win an Oscar and then be struck by lightning while skydiving.

Jesus will actually come back to save the world but will end up in a mental institution, heavily medicated and receive a lobotomy.
 
1. Amy Winehouse gets wasted

2. Oprah Winfrey appears on all the magazine covers about her new weight-loss plan

3. Amy Winehouse will be admitted to a rehab

4. Rush Limbaugh will attribute any Obama successes to race

5. Amy Winehouse will be released from a rehab, then ODs, and is re-admitted to a rehab

6. Britney Spears will appear in a video wearing an outfit too skimpy for her mature body

7. Amy Winehouse will slur while singing, and be nominated for several Grammys
 
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  • A celebrity will die of too many illegal/controlled substances.
  • Republicans will fling poo at the new president, hoping some will stick.
  • A sports figure will be arrested for behaving badly.
  • A religious leader will be caught up in a sex scandal, most likely involving gay sex.
  • Reality television will reach critical mass, and I will throw all my televisions into the swimming pool.
  • Woo will increase drastically during these difficult times as people look for anything to blame but themselves and their society and any solution that don't involve facing reality/sacrifice/sharing/work.
 
Something will happen to somebody somewhere. Or, then again, maybe not.

(Just trying to maintain my 100% accuracy record.) :D
 
1. President George W. Bush will hand out pardons to political buddies, including one to Vice President Richard "Dick" Cheney for any criminal offenses he may have commited while Vice President.

2. The 44th President of the United States will not be Barack Obama. It will be Richard "Dick" Cheney, following the surprise January resignation of George W. Bush. Obama will be president number 45.

3. President "Dick" Cheney will pardon George W. Bush for any criminal offenses he may have committed while President.

4. President "Dick" Cheney will provoke Iran militarily, making one hell of an international mess and leaving it up to Obama to clean it up (if he can). Cheney will deny that the provocation was unnecessary, and will further deny that he was in any way motivated by a perverse desire to try to make life difficult for President Obama and all of those who voted for him.

5. In his presidential library, George W. Bush will take credit for having prevented no fewer than forty-seven separate terrorist attacks. It will never be known from whose hindquarters this figure was pulled.

6. In his presidential library, "Dick" Cheney will take credit for having prevented no fewer than twelve separate terrorist attacks.

7. Thrift stores will run short of shoes, as shoe-throwing becomes a popular mode of expression, especially an expression of dissent.

Okay, those are less-than-fully-serious. A more serious prediction is this:

8. A person will be arrested for displaying his shoes in the presence of a US political figure. There will be no throwing of the shoes, just a display of them, and the one arrested will claim that his right of free expression is being (ahem) stepped upon.
 
Manna falls from the sky
Giant's coin becomes worthless
Carriage fuel shines anew
The great leader weeps

The floating visions cease
Thronged masses find release
Booted tyrant will arise
All will have extra fries

The old city will join with the new
The new king will bow to the old
Fifteen then three will turn into stew
Three then fifteen will return to the cold

The spider's kiss will dance the sky
Angels will fall, fall, fall and die
Demons disrupt the web far and wide
The lizards leap into the crimson tide

~ That's how you do prophecy!
 
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President Obama's approval rating will fall below 50%.

There will be a major natural disaster on a Pacific coastal area.

Iran will continue trying to obtain nukes and lead to war, but no nuclear weapons will be used.

There will be a major change in the Chinese government.

An ex-President will die.

Israel will not make concessions to Palestinians, leading to increased tensions, but no all out war.

Japan will be involved in a major war.
 
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