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[Ladewig]

28. Barbara Streisand will pass away on March 17th at 7:09 PM.

Strangely enough, Slim Whitman will also die in that exact minute. Also, Al Pacino will die just a few minutes later.

 

[Ladewig]

79. US efforts to save billions by replacing the dollar bill with a dollar coin, as most civilized countries have already done, will once again founder, because the American people hate change.

first off, a tip of the hat for the joke.

As for the scenario itself, I am unable to decide if I will be more annoyed by the chuckleheads who will claim that Obama is doing this to institute a one-world government or by the numskulls who will claim that Obama is doing this to bring us closer to the End Times.

 

[Joey McGee]

The media will print more swear words and bathroom humor than it ever has.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6e546778-5358-11e2-bc9c-00144feab49a.html#axzz2Gt3tDVT6

the big package that Mr Obama had

 

[Moon-Spinner]

A 7+ magnitude earthquake will hit Iran, trapping Mahmoud Ahmadinejad under his own ego for a week before he asks for outside help.

Middle Eastern clerics will blame the earthquake on women and homosexuals.
Pat Robertson will blame the earthquake on the middle east worshiping the wrong God (and homosexuals).
Environmentalists will blame the earthquake on the drilling for oil.
New Agers will blame the earthquake on planetary alignments.
Westboro Baptists will blame the earthquake on US soldiers.
Conspiracy Theorists will blame the earthquake on the Large Hadron Collider.
Scientists will blame the earthquake on plate tectonics.

 

[Brown]

23. Canada will tentatively recognize that the Cambridge Kid--even if a girl--is the heir to Liz, after Chuck and Billy.

Steps have now been taken in this direction: Federal government to introduce royal succession legislation:

Under the existing law, if the royal couple has a daughter, she will stand behind any younger brothers in line for the throne. But once new legislation is introduced, succession rules will be applied equally to male and female offspring.
...
Insiders say introducing this legislation in Canada will not involve re-opening the Canadian constitution.

 

[Brown]

A prominent figure will announce retirement in the first half of the year.

Steps will be taken toward reform of the Electoral College, but the US Constitution will not be amended (at least not in 2013).

Chambliss, Harkin to Retire

Steps were indeed taken after the prediction was made to reform the Electoral College (see, for example, this piece and this piece), but the efforts have recently stalled.

 

[Brown]

The loss of money by the ton
Affects the numbers on the grid ...

"Money by the ton" is a play on words, and an intentional one. One meaning of the word money is "pay," and if you put "pay" by "ton," you get get "payton" which is how Peyton Manning pronounces his first name. Had Peyton won his playoff game against Baltimore, he would have skipped the Pro Bowl ... but he lost his playoff game, and his resulting appearance in the Pro Bowl had an effect on the score numbers from the gridiron:

Peyton Manning-led AFC no match for NFC in Pro Bowl blowout

Lest you think this is somehow an unfair use of wordplay or hidden meanings, keep in mind that this sort of "analysis" is applied to the quatrains of Nostra-dumbass with considerable frequency.

 

[Joey McGee]

Well played, Monseigneur Brown. But I have one of my own I won't be so humble to avoid highlighting.

57. My girlfriend will cheat on me with a richer, stronger man.

This has already happened too.

 

[NetPen]

I'll try to sound poetic and archaic here for frills:

92. Joel Schumaker will make another film and shall recieve less than half of a rotten tomato.
93. Anonymous will make another hack-attack sometime early this year.
94. A famous actor shall say something stupid while drunk in a desert. (What happens in Vegas...)
95. More CTers will tie Lady Gaga into their conspiracy theories as "evidence".
96. [This one is really KaiserNiko's of youtube] East Berlin is reformed and the Wall is rebuilt after Nickelback has announced a European tour.

 

[torifrog]

97. If #60 is incorrect, Tony Abbott will improve his popularity in Australia briefly before becoming more loathed than ever before.

(Hi, this is my 1st post here!)

 

[Brown]

44. Donald will make big news.

And Bill Maher is getting big laughs from it.

A prominent figure will announce retirement in the first half of the year.

A royal family that believes in retirement? Dutch Queen Beatrix to abdicate from the Christian Science Monitor.

 

[Brown]

A prominent figure will announce retirement in the first half of the year.

There's prominent, and then there's prominent, and they don't get much more prominent than this:

Pope Benedict XVI to retire at end of the month

 

[Brown]

In space, no one can hear you ....

Are You There, E.T.? SETI Finds No Alien Signals from Exoplanets They listened and listened, and have now announced that they've heard ... nothing.

"No signals of extraterrestrial origin were found," the researchers conclude in the study, which has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.

 

[Baylor]

2013: James Randi will die

 

[rcfieldz]

tomorrow

There will be a massive explosion.

 

[Brown]

Scandal will rock a European nation. The scandal will not center on sexuality or financial mismanagement.

Scandal is rocking a European nation. Several European nations, actually. And it has nothing to do with sexuality or financial mismanagement. From the New York Times:

Horse Meat in Food Stirs a Furor in the British Isles

Few things divide British eating habits from those of Continental Europe as clearly as a distaste for consuming horse meat, so news that many Britons have unknowingly done so has prompted alarm among shoppers and plunged the country’s food industry into crisis.

A trickle of discoveries of horse meat in hamburgers, starting in Ireland last month, has turned into a steady stream of revelations, including, on Friday, that lasagna labeled beef from one international distributor of frozen food, Findus, contained in some cases 100 percent horse meat.

The widening scandal has now touched producers and potentially millions of consumers in at least five countries — Ireland, Britain, Poland, France and Sweden — and raised questions of food safety and oversight, as well as the possibility of outright fraud in an industry with a history of grave, if episodic, lapses despite similarly episodic efforts at stricter regulation and reform. Already, tens of millions of hamburgers from several suppliers have been recalled.

 

[Brown]

42. President Obama's second term will get off to a difficult start.

So agrees NPR: Week In News: A Rocky Start To Obama's Second:

Less than a week into his second term, President Obama has already met with resistance over procedural matters, such as his use of the recess appointment to circumvent the Senate confirmation process.

 

[Brown]

12. Pat Robertson will say something insane.

Pat Robertson Claims Islam Is 'Demonic' And 'Not A Religion' But An Economic System

 

[dudalb]

A 200 Million plus budget Hollywood film will bomb badly.

 

[Brown]

7. Someone will try to recreate history from several decades ago.

A report in the Vancouver Sun, Beijing to bulldoze homes to recreate history, says that "District officials want to recreate a piece of China's glorious dynastic past by rebuilding a square near the Drum and Bell towers in 18th-century Qing Dynasty fashion."