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Can we have a list of mispredictions?



"Smell you later" replacing "goodbye"


You aren't using that one?


I know I am


I genuinely do, occasionally. Which reminds me, I went through this goofy dictionary.com slideshow of "great slang from the '90s we should bring back!" and quite a few of them I did not recognize as the least bit dated. Kind of an alienating experience.


With global warming, it's not far off.


* Trump as president, predicted in the 2000 episode "Bart To The Future" [0]

* Top 10 Simpsons Predictions That Came True [1] (not a great video though)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZyaDKaun7w

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQGXofzQEiE


But they assumed that a President Trump would put the country in a huge debt hole, and the Republicans have assured us that their enormous giveway to billionaires would cause the economy to grow by 3% annually for the next 10 years, just like every other time that policy has completely failed to do that.


Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign for 2000 in October of 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_presidential_camp...


May go deeper than we think. Saw this yesterday:

https://twitter.com/hailbotsghost/status/827162230974078979

Anybody else get the feeling Kirsten Gillibrand has seen the Simpsons prophecies and is taking them very seriously?


No. Because unless we know the world ends tomorrow, or they're explicitly dated, there's always time for them to become accurate.




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