Category: Joke Board
The Top 20 Predictions Made in 1957
That Didn't Quite Come True
20> By 2007, the immorality of the beatnik movement will signal
the end of civilization.
19> After his performance in "Hellcats of the Navy," actor
Ronald Reagan will sink into well-deserved obscurity.
18> Overpasses will be raised to accommodate automobile
tail fins of the future.
17> The horrific example of McCarthyism will forever inspire
American vigilance, lest any future government seek to
trample individual rights in the name of national security.
16> Congress will amend the Constitution to allow President
Elvis A. Presley to serve another eight years.
15> The U.S. tax code will become so simplified that every
household can file a tax return in three easy steps.
14> The last few remaining non-smokers will be sterilized
and exiled to a detention facility in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina.
13> The newly transplanted San Diego Yankees will win the 1959
world series, then succumb to years of mediocrity.
12> In 2007, comrades in USSA will celebrate 90th anniversary
of glorious people's revolution!
11> "Clean your plate, dear. Another helping of roast beef
and mashed potatoes will help you grow up big and strong.
Then go out and play in the sunshine for a few hours.
You'll thank me some day."
10> Atomic-powered flying cars will free us forever from the
tyranny of 29-cent-per-gallon gasoline.
9> By the year 2007, every city will own a computer.
8> Advanced technology allows people to play phonograph records
in their cars -- with no skipping!
7> Friends and colleagues deny accusations made in a new memoir
that Washington Senators' slugger Fidel Castro slept with
Marilyn Monroe behind Joe DiMaggio's back.
6> Due to the advent of the "meal in a pill," by the year 2000
the weight of the average American will be a trim 165 pounds.
5> President Rock Hudson signs a temporary amnesty bill enabling
patriotic Americans to use their Ford AstroFairlanes to visit
exiled loved ones on the Communist Lunar Colony.
4> Seatbelts, schmeatbelts.
3> Built to last with technology of the future, the RCA 18-inch
black-and-white television will remain the industry standard.
2> Someday, Dwight D. Eisenhower's idiot son, John Sheldon
Eisenhower, will run for president -- and win!
and the Number 1 Prediction
Made in 1957 That Didn't Quite Come True...
1> Times may change, but the name "Hilton" will always
denote class.
<lol> especially number one.
Bob
Well, number nine did come true, sort of! Name me a city counsel or city government building that doesn't have at least one computer in it! *laugh*