Go on, give it your best shot …-- 8th of 7, Dec 17 2012 Fred Phelps will form an exploratory committee to run for the next governor of Kansas as a Tea Party candidate.-- RayfordSteele, Dec 17 2012 Social media will turn into a workplace.-- Inyuki, Dec 17 2012 A new food group will be discovered through space exploration.-- rcarty, Dec 17 2012 The last annotation to this idea will be dated December 20th, 2012-- theircompetitor, Dec 17 2012 Puerto Rico will petition to become a territory under the watch of the Maldives. Maldivians flee to there in droves to escape rising sea levels.-- RayfordSteele, Dec 17 2012 Damn you, [theircompetitor], we were just about to post a very similar anno …-- 8th of 7, Dec 17 2012 Historians will reveal that the Mayan Calendar is actually a taco serving tray.-- xandram, Dec 17 2012 I'm not sure on the details yet, but I expect the word "distopian" to feature heavily in descriptions of it.-- Custardguts, Dec 17 2012 Someone will claim the N-Prize, but then it will be discovered that they illegally applied Rentisham's wax to the stabilisers, disqualifying them, saving Max B from having to make a payout that he obviously cannot afford.-- sqeaketh the wheel, Dec 17 2012 The word "dystopian" will be spelled correctly.-- 8th of 7, Dec 17 2012 //Someone will claim the N-Prize, but then it will be discovered that they illegally applied Rentisham's wax to the stabilisers, disqualifying them//
Highly unlikely. Trust me, you do NOT want to expose flenting wax (really, any sort of flenting related material at all) to a vacuum.-- ytk, Dec 17 2012 The Royals will welcome a new addition to their family, albeit an alien.-- blissmiss, Dec 17 2012 //you do NOT want to expose flenting wax (really, any sort of flenting related material at all) to a vacuum.//
I beg (and I use the word merely as a social nicety) to differ. One of the very few occasions on which Rentisham's has been offered to a foreign power was during the final preparations for the Apollo 11 launch.
You will recall that that mission involved reconfiguring the spacecraft mid-flight, and coupling the lunar module to the command module by means of a docking probe. It was discovered, 36hrs before the launch, that ionization of the thruster gases would create a significant static charge between the two parts, and there was a real concern that this charge would arc between the probe and the lunar module, creating a spot-weld which would foul the docking.
After some tense negotiations and some hasty back-of-the-envelope calculations, it was found that a thin coating of Rentisham's would solve the problem. A representative was sent, carrying a small canister of Rentisham's which he, personally, applied to the critical components. The rest is history.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 17 2012 [Letsbuildafort] Will make a brief resurgence with ideas and a few annos. Then quietly return to his place in HB obscurity.-- Letsbuildafort, Dec 17 2012 Quite right, [MB], but I believe there may have been some misunderstanding. When I said you don't want to expose flenting wax to a vacuum, I meant the type that's used for sweeping floors and such (I suppose I should have used the word “Hoover” for purposes of clarity (not to mention general cultural appropriateness)). You see, that sentence was a bit of a non-sequitur—I was merely scoffing at what I saw as a particularly blatantly idiotic prediction, as well as providing helpful advice regarding the cleanup of spilled or otherwise misapplied flenting wax.
The reason being, of course, that it tends to gum up the motor quite badly, necessitating costly repairs.-- ytk, Dec 17 2012 I made no apology, and still make none. I was merely explaining the source of any confusion that may have arisen from my use of the homonym “vacuum”. As I explained previously, my skepticism regarding the prediction made by [sqeaketh] and my helpful household hint regarding the cleanup of excess Rentisham's were largely unrelated thoughts, tied together solely by the common thread of flenting wax, not space exploration or household appliances.
My actual reason for doubting the prediction is that I have seen no verifiable proof that outer space actually exists.-- ytk, Dec 18 2012 Japan will build a massive watermill to take advantage of future tectonic activity. It will become the favorite toy of a large lizard who will provide Japan with free electricity most of the year.-- Voice, Dec 18 2012 //My actual reason for doubting the prediction is that I have seen no verifiable proof that outer space actually exists.// And I have seen no convincing evidence that [ytk] actually exists. It is said that [ytk]'s annos are actually created by a random number generator based on the decay of a radium source.-- sqeaketh the wheel, Dec 18 2012 //It is said that [ytk]'s annos are actually created by a random number generator based on the decay of a radium source.//
Basically correct, with one minor addition. Radioactive decay being a quantum event, each annotation splits the universe into an infinite number of alternative realities, with a different anno in each one. A filter is then applied to check if the annotation makes sense in context. If it does not, the universe is simply destroyed.-- ytk, Dec 18 2012 1. Native Americans, North and South, will discover Europe, plant their flag and start taking indentured servants. When they find out just how useless these slaves are they will pack up their collections of plundered soccer paraphernalia and sail back home. 2. Jutta will install a spell checker so I won't need to google paraphernalia.-- sqeaketh the wheel, Dec 18 2012 After the Mayan calendar cycle is a non-event, people's smug 'foolish Mayans' attitude will be replaced by a contrite 'gullible us', as they realise that the Mayans made no prediction of change.
Paradoxically, this will usher in a New Age of rational enlightenment, as people everywhere learn not to believe anything without evidence.-- spidermother, Dec 18 2012 Alternatively, people will also learn not to act on prejudicial disbeliefs without evidence...-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 18 2012 The Mayan calendar is revealed to herald not the end of the world, but rather a revival of the Soul/Motown scene, kicked off by the runaway success of the first studio album by “Agnes Day & The Riders”. The confusion was due to an unlikely series of mistranslations, as well as a mixup involving the Book of Revelation.-- ytk, Dec 18 2012 Obligatory Prediction: late in the year 2013 (probably in December) someone (probably 8th of 7) will post an idea (probably very much like this one) for Blatantly Idiotic Predictions for 2014.
In the summer of 2013, a Peruvian llama herder will discover that llama tears are a suitably renewable fuel source, providing power equivalent to gasoline while producing virtually no harmful emissions.
Soon after the discovery, PETA will announce a massive world-wide campaign to protect unhappy llamas from cruel comments about their weight and taunting due to the llamas' inherent inability to line-dance.
Peru will be the founding member of OLTEC - Organization of the Llama Tear Exporting Countries, joined by minority members USA and Canada.
Chinese entrepreneurs will attempt to market imitation llama tears which will be proven to have come from the fabled Grass Mud Horse.-- Canuck, Dec 18 2012 //I have seen no verifiable proof that outer space actually exists// Shropshire.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 18 2012 // Shropshire// Oh, right. That's where the Native-American invasion boats landed.-- sqeaketh the wheel, Dec 18 2012 Somewhere around December 13th of 2013, people will finally be able to get some use out of the Christmas-themed gifts they got for Christmas 0f 2012.
"Oh, look! A souvenir Salop Christmas ornament! How nice. I can hardly wait for eleven-and-a-half months from now."-- baconbrain, Dec 18 2012 An archaeological expedition to Central America will discover, deep underneath a Mayan pyramid, a highly complex timing mechanism of unknown manufacture which has stalled just before it is due to expire.
The expedition members will return to their camp, and send urgent emails to all major world governments requesting the immediate dispatch of personnel skilled in Explosive Ordnance Disposal and related skills.
They will then sit around their campfire, speculating wildly and imbibing large amounts of alcoholic beverages.
However, before the Black Helicopters arrive on site, one team member, having missed their way in the tropical darkness due to intoxication, wanders back into the excavation, trips, and reaches out to save themselves from falling. Regrettably, the object they grasp is a protruding lever clearly labelled in Mayan pictograms "Manual Override. Do Not Touch".
And then it suddenly all gets very loud and bright and expensive.-- 8th of 7, Dec 18 2012 I will have an original, and humourous idea, which I will subsequently post here.-- kaz, Dec 18 2012 // very loud and bright and expensive //
I will have a girlfriend like that.-- baconbrain, Dec 18 2012 // I will have a girlfriend like that //
Distracted by a flock of flying pigs, [baconbrain] will be knocked down and trampled to death by a unicorn.-- 8th of 7, Dec 18 2012 The man formerly known as the man formerly known as Prince will release a much awaited sequel to his single, "Tonight I'm Going To Party Like It's 12/21/12"-- theircompetitor, Dec 19 2012 Ian Tindale will return to the HB. (And bakers will apologize for treating him so shabbily over that video thing.) And there will be rejoicing.-- sqeaketh the wheel, Dec 19 2012 A "blatantly idiotic" sub-sub-sub-category will be added under "halfbakery: seasonal: predictions."-- Cuit_au_Four, Dec 19 2012 Correction: A top-level category, named "not blatantly idiotic" will be created, with nothing in it.-- hippo, Dec 19 2012 The new empty category will be hailed as God, and many speculations of its nature will fill the halfbakery.-- rcarty, Dec 19 2012 London hospitals will acquire modern day phone technology known as * caller ID * that will aid in preventing prank phone calls.-- xandram, Dec 19 2012 [squeak] will post an invention called "DreamCam" with the hugely humorous subtitle "iDream," which allows one to record lucid images "seen" in a dream, then will discover that the same idea was posted by TIB in 2003 under the name "Dream Machine." [squeak] will then notice that [jutta] pointed out that this invention already occurred in the movie Till the End of the World. [squeak] will delete the posting immediately. ...-- sqeaketh the wheel, Dec 19 2012 ...which is a shame because I spent the extremely small amount of time at my disposal this morning finding relevant links you might wish to see, and so I will post them here though they are completely random with regards to the idea as posted.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 19 2012 In that case I will repost the idea to honor your efforts.-- sqeaketh the wheel, Dec 19 2012 I am greatly pleased by this gesture and will transfer said links before incurring the wrath of the collective.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 19 2012 [sqeak] will notice a missing *u*-- po, Dec 20 2012 Bunning and Boning on the “Blatantly Idiotic” ideas will be rationalised automatically, by weighting individual voters’ votes, so that each idea has the same net number of votes. The principle will then be rolled out across the ’bakery over the next few months, before being adopted enthusiastically by all major world “democracies” by the end of the year.-- pocmloc, Dec 20 2012 All Halfbakers, on 12/20/2012, will enter a time loop (like in the film 'Groundhog Day'), forced to relive the day over and over and over ad infinitum.-- sqeaketh the wheel, Dec 20 2012 All Halfbakers, on 12/20/2012, will enter a time loop (like in the film 'Groundhog Day'), forced to relive the day over and over and over ad infinitum.-- sqeaketh the wheel, Dec 20 2012 All Halfbakers, on 12/20/2012, will enter a time loop (like in the film 'Groundhog Day'), forced to relive the day over and over and over ad infinitum.-- sqeaketh the wheel, Dec 20 2012 We should do these alliterative next year for more challenge.-- RayfordSteele, Dec 21 2012 I'm still here and it's now the 21st...It seems I might have survived the apocalypse and need to get more canned food.-- xandram, Dec 21 2012 Americans will stop needing to own about a hundred guns each, and go back to carrying cudgels and hatchets. (how idiotic is that?)-- xenzag, Dec 21 2012 I already have a hatchet! [xen] It's truly sad that the media portrays this country in such a way...-- xandram, Dec 21 2012 ...and go after their Congressmen with them.-- RayfordSteele, Dec 21 2012 //sticking with the first convention, all words should start with a capital letter// wot?-- po, Dec 21 2012 ?[bigsleep] wot needs adjusting? I agree with going after all the politicians - World Wide!-- xandram, Dec 21 2012 I will send each and everyone of you a halfbaked fruitcake.-- xandram, Dec 21 2012 //It's truly sad that the media portrays this country in such a way...// [xandram]
Number of Murders by firearms, Britain, 2011: 58 Number of Murders by Firearms, US, 2010: 8,775
Time to get a bigger hatchet! USA seems a terrifying place to me - bristling with guns. Time for me to think up a another half-baked gun-nut idea. I have it! Convert everything so that it can fire off a single bullet in 2013.
I predict that in time everything sold in America will be able to fire a bullet. Even some of the animals that live in the woods will obtain weapons under new legislation. This will be called The Right To Arm Bears.-- xenzag, Dec 21 2012 Under equality legislation, bears sue for the right to hunt humans. By popular vote, an amendment is enacted allowing bears to hunt any politician earning more than USD$50,000 per year, with a bag limit in areas where they are scarce.
The quality of life in the USA improves tremendously. Other nations watch in awe, before enacting similar legislation. Canada becomes immensely wealthy based on bear exports. The Ursudollar pushes the Petrodollar into the background. Alaska becomes the richest US state. After Sarah Palin is eaten by a Kodiak bear, property prices in the state quadruple overnight.
In Europe, Brussels is converted into a theme park called BearLand. Bear-worship becomes commonplace. After wolves are included, wolf cubs become the latest must-have accessories.-- 8th of 7, Dec 21 2012 OK, I see the 'f' now, but not sure I'll change it. Why do you like conformity so much? Next subject: Population of Britain= 62,641,000 Population of USA = 314,980,202. That would certainly make a difference in any statistics you wish to represent or misrepresent! I am not a gun owner, nor have I ever witnessed a murder and I've lived here for 60 years. [xenzag] must visit some horrible places.-- xandram, Dec 21 2012 // I am not a gun owner, nor have I ever witnessed a murder and I've lived here for 60 years. //
There's this lovely little village called St. Mary Meade ...-- 8th of 7, Dec 21 2012 "Americans don’t just have more guns that anyone else – 270 million privately held firearms. They also have the highest gun ownership per capita rate in the world, with an average of about nine guns for every 10 Americans." Washington Post.
I predict that eventually Americans will own every gun in the world - ha! - sorry [xandram] but I know all too well where to feel fear. Whether it be at my friend's remote house in Vermont, or my other friend's apartment in Los Angles. America is a country stalked with fear and paranoia. That's why they need all those guns. Why else would guns sales have gone through the roof again this week? I'm just glad I don't live there. Even our police are unarmed in UK.
Hope my fellow Americans are all safe and sound this coming year.-- xenzag, Dec 21 2012 // Even our police are unarmed in UK //
You haven't been to Heathrow recently, have you ... ?-- 8th of 7, Dec 21 2012 it keeps coming back to the same thing. Why do you need all that oil. Why do you need all those guns. Why do you need all those gadgets. Why do you need all those SUVs?
You can think that the answer is in bourgeois marketing impulses. Or some other nouveau riche impulse. Or paranoia. No doubt they all play a part.
But really, whether you like it or not, our fundamental understanding of liberty is that not only is it none of your business, but we believe that you asking actually infringes on those rights -- because we are individuals, and our rights are inalienable, and no one -- not even a temporary majority of us -- should be able to dictate otherwise.
"Why do you need" ultimately is a moralistic question -- one that you have no right to ask anyone, unless you are actually answering a request for money, say from your loser brother in law. Which, funny enough, is often the opposite of how this conversation is going, at least lately.-- theircompetitor, Dec 21 2012 //we are individuals// surely you can't all be.-- rcarty, Dec 21 2012 //our rights are inalienable, and no one -- not even a temporary majority of us -- should be able to dictate otherwise//
I think that's a fair point. Relatively gunless nations tend to look askance, but they can legislate for themselves.
At the same time, it's not usually possible to have rights which are inalienable for all time. At some point in history, people were allowed to bait bears, buy strychnine at the corner shop, and sell children. Society changed, and bear-baiting was outlawed; doubtless strychnine and child selling will also some day be restricted. Are you suggesting that, at no time in the future, ever, will the right to own firearms become alienable?
It was, presumably, every person's inalienable right at one time to carry pretty much any kind of firearm wherever they like, yet my understanding is that now that right has been limited, inasmuch as carrying a concealed gun may be illegal (I don't know - I'm guessing).-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 21 2012 waxwings will come to my garden...-- po, Dec 21 2012 have I lightened the mood?-- po, Dec 21 2012 // strychnine and child selling will also some day be restricted. //
The horror, the horror ... how will chimneys be swept ? How will inconvenient elderly relatives be removed ? 'tis but a Modest Proposal (q.v.) ...
'Are there no prisons ? And the Union workhouses, are they still in operation?'
'If they would rather die,' said Scrooge, 'they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
// have I lightened the mood? //
The jury's still out on that one ...-- 8th of 7, Dec 21 2012 there's a process for that MB, it's called an amendment.
Sorry, po, et.al -- did not want to get into that debate but didn't really start it :).
Here's the next Blatantly Idiotic prediction: There will be no further references to gun control in this annotation stream!-- theircompetitor, Dec 21 2012 [Ian Tindale] will quietly re-capitalise each of the previous Idiotic predIctions.-- pocmloc, Dec 21 2012 //Party Like It's 12/21/12// On 12th September 2013, the Mayans will turn up and laugh at people for getting the calendar wrong.-- pocmloc, Dec 21 2012 //it's called an amendment// So what's the difference between an amendment and an alienation?-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 21 2012 An amendment requires a solid shift in super majority opinion, sustained over significant time (requiring approval at multiple steps in the political hierarchy). Amendments can be major mistakes, too (the income tax, Prohibition are two examples that come to mind). Some are popular only when it's convenient (for instance, many advocated amending the Constitution to allow the Terminator to run for President, when he was popular). And of course there are limits to amendments
But even when amendments are foolhardy, there at least is a long, sustained process of thinking about them. Whereas the "there ought to be a law" impulses are downright dangerous to liberty.-- theircompetitor, Dec 21 2012 And I don't talk about amendments all the time.-- rcarty, Dec 21 2012 //how will chimneys be swept ? How will inconvenient elderly relatives be removed ?//
Tell me about it. I've had to bring out the badger- on-a-rope and clean my own chimney's of late.
As for the elderly relatives, though, they generally aren't a problem. As far back as my family records go, they have had an endearing habit of developing increasingly ill-advised enthusiasms in their later years.
The First Earl Of Buchanan took himself out of the picture at the age of 74 (admittedly an indecently old age for those times) shortly after he started work on a crossbow capable of shooting around corners (or, as it turned out, around three corners). He sort of set a trend.
Our latest departure (Ffygs Trenchant-Buchanan - a distant relation) made a graceful exit only three days ago off the coast of Hobart; apparently he took the sign "Box Jellyfish" literally.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 21 2012 //As for the elderly relatives, though, they generally aren't a problem. As far back as my family records go, they have had an endearing habit of developing increasingly ill-advised enthusiasms in their later years.//
//I've had to bring out the badger- on-a-rope and clean my own chimney's of late.//
Hear that wailing off in the distance, [Max]?-- ytk, Dec 22 2012 // badger-on-a-rope //
What's happened to that beautiful antique boxed set of foot- turned panda-bone fropping rods then, the one with the inlaid silver badger screw attachment? Admittedly the ferrules are a bit worn, but careful repacking with owlskin shims would soon put them right- any competent tree surgeon should be able to do the job. They seemed to work wonderfully well when the Third Assistant Windowbox Undergardener was clearing the blockage in the flue in the second bathroom of the Slightly Off-Beige Guest Suite in the North East wing after the unfortunate misunderstanding during the last New Year's Eve party. After all, there are only so many syllables in the world, and no-one could have reasonably forseen what that phrase meant in Latvian; but perhaps you should buy the Christmas Crackers from a different supplier this year. The tradename "Acme" on the carton did not inspire confidence, and it isn't usual for pulling a cracker to result in a brisk game of hunt-the-fingers so that they can be surgically reattached.-- 8th of 7, Dec 22 2012 I would like to submit a quote (prediction) from an astrologer friend of mine:
The main falsehood our species is wrestling with is the illusion of duality, that one group of people somewhere is worse than another. This external split reflects the inner division of humanity. For a long time we have been a split species with an unhealed emotional wound that some say goes back to Atlantis, when the elite ruling class first dominated and controlled the populace. This inner split must be healed if we are to cross the gate and get to something better. If that occurs, I do not predict wild euphoric visions of paradise arising on the other side, but normal life.~~Mark Borax-- xandram, Dec 22 2012 Normal life - Hah! The world is so vast and diversified. The US itself is like 50 different countries. I have travelled from coast to coast and have seen the wide array of differences and lifestyles. I have travelled to third world countries and have never felt fear, even watching cabbies have a knife fight over who would drive us! [xenzag] - look inside your elf as that is where the fear lies. I live in the countryside where we don't lock our doors!-- xandram, Dec 22 2012 ook ook.-- po, Dec 22 2012 // The tradename "Acme" on the carton did not inspire confidence// But they looked so attractive, with those little knobbly cases and the fancy pin you pull to make them go bang.
//normal life.~~Mark Borax// An astrologer who believes in Atlantis and who is named after a salt of a mineral acid is hardly in a position to comment on normal life.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 22 2012 AMEN [21]!!-- xandram, Dec 22 2012 Except of the car accident estimate, it's about 100 per day.-- rcarty, Dec 22 2012 That's about how many there is in the US.-- rcarty, Dec 22 2012 I don't disagree with you. In fact it actually seems like a reasonable expectation in a society with such an availability of high-powered assault rifles that someone will kill a bunch of people from time to time. One cunning strategy to reduce the phenomena is to simply normalize the occurances, reduce reporting of the incidents down to daily mundanity, and once normalized it will become an unfavorable means.-- rcarty, Dec 22 2012 // it actually seems like a reasonable expectation in a society with such an availability of high-powered assault rifles that someone will kill a bunch of people from time to time //
Now that, sir, is a blatantly idiotic prediction.
On a side note: after being repeatedly informed via multiple news sources that AR-15s are very dangerous guns, I've been keeping a close eye on my collection of them. So far, none of them appear to have exhibited any sort of dangerous behavior, but I'll keep watching.-- Alterother, Dec 22 2012 Maxwell will learn to be polite and stop calling people names or he will not be allowed to go out for recess.-- xandram, Dec 22 2012 Cars (and all modes of powered transportation) are shockingly capable weapons. Really, we need to go back to horse and buggy.
I've always thought that the proper opening is in the Constitution itself (i.e. well regulated militia). It seems that requiring a membership in something like the National Guard, with regular responsibilities, would pass Constitutional muster. And of course, taxes.-- theircompetitor, Dec 23 2012 //Maxwell will learn to be polite and stop calling people names or he will not be allowed to go out for recess.//
Hey, he's the guy who called himself Borax.
To predictions. [Ubie] will return and depart with increasing frequency, culminating with a superposition of states in which he's not all here.
[8th] will be found to be wearing a cardigan and surrounded by calendars featuring fluffy kittens.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 23 2012 [FlyingToaster] will at least once more try to disambiguate the terms "assault rifle" and "assault weapon", one term referring to a modern-era stock military personal firearm that is neither high-powered nor particularly easy to acquire, the other marking the wielder [edit: "wielder of the term"] as being willfully irresponsible in the area of firearms' control.-- FlyingToaster, Dec 23 2012 Max Bygraves, shirley?-- pocmloc, Dec 23 2012 The Habit: An Unexpected Burning will be the first porn movie to be nominated for an Academy Award, and will unexpectedly beat The Desolation of Smaug to win the Oscar for Special Effects-- theircompetitor, Dec 23 2012 I got yer disambiguation right here, pal!-- Alterother, Dec 24 2012 heheh, I meant somebody who refers to firearms as "assault weapons", not somebody who owns such fairy-taled instruments.
Circumstance permitting, if'n I lived a hundred or more miles south of where I do, I'd feel obligated to have something in the AR family in the safe, alongside a small (but mildly interesting) collection of vintage and antique rifles, and perhaps an oilcan full of replacement parts inconspicously buried in the backyard somewhere. Not that I feel any great loss of course, but still...-- FlyingToaster, Dec 27 2012 Due mille tredici non sarà piu Due mille tredici-- Dub, Dec 31 2012 Same to you Dub!-- blissmiss, Dec 31 2012 A study will be released on July 21, the results of which indicate all problems are caused by sex. World governments will unite to outlaw sex. Henceforth all procreation will occur in petri-dishes, and only chemically induced pleasures will be allowed.-- senatorjam, Jan 01 2013 Sometime in 2013, I will post a new idea.
13 has always been my number. Not my lucky number, just my number.-- baconbrain, Jan 01 2013 Wow, baconbrain, you and I are now neighbors. Who knew???I'm in Springfield,IL. Right next door to the Ozarks. If I look out my kitchen window...-- blissmiss, Jan 01 2013 Yay for you 21. That is great news. A good company is hard to come by. Wouldn't switch Goodwill, for nothing. Great company. We are both blessed.-- blissmiss, Jan 01 2013 Congrats 21Q. That does sound like a good start to the year. I was just thinking fondly about the people who work with me and realized that is probably a rare thing and worth taking the time to appreciate it. Go 2013 onwards and upwards.-- AusCan531, Jan 01 2013 Congrats, [21Q], and a Happy New Year to all.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 01 2013 Me too, Questie.-- blissmiss, Jan 01 2013 Hope it's a good hat!-- pocmloc, Jan 01 2013 Some marketing firm will abscond with the term 'flenting,' resulting in chaos and lawsuits in which the plaintiffs are cornered to attempt to explain the terminology to non-halfbakers.-- RayfordSteele, Jan 03 2013 Four snowflakes will fall on London in one 24 hour period.
The entire UK will close until Spring. Millions of people in other countries where they get real amounts of snow will die laughing.-- 8th of 7, Jan 26 2013 That happens most every year, and every year we die laughing. For sure.-- blissmiss, Jan 26 2013 J.J Abrams will finally mash up Star Wars and Star Trek in a Tom Cruise Scientology vehicle, where we'll discover that Scientologists were the original Jedi, and that midichlorians were discovered by a recently married Kirk & Spock (Travolta, of course) on a remote retirement planet vaguely reminiscent of Key West-- theircompetitor, Jan 26 2013 //midichlorians were discovered by a recently married Kirk & Spock// Aren't they the little things in your cells that make ATP?-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 26 2013 No, that's Tribbles. Please, do try to keep up …-- 8th of 7, Jan 26 2013 An archaeologist working in the Sahara Desert will postulate that, contrary to popular scientific opinion, we are not experiencing *global warming*, but rather a *normalization* of temperatures as the Earth finally returns to its natural state after the last Ice Age.
Among the expected future tourist attractions are an ice-free Arctic Ocean, waterfront condos in Antarctica, and glass-bottomed boats tours of many former-seacoast cities (Mumbai, Venice, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver to name but a few).-- Canuck, Jan 27 2013 A race of aliens will stop by Earth in their spaceship, to steal a shitload of heat from our ecosystem. Global warming will be something we ardently desire, as temperatures drop by 6 degrees Celsius, globally.-- UnaBubba, Jan 27 2013 //The First Earl Of Buchanan took himself out of the picture at the age of 74
Er, that just sounds like good photoshop skills. Have you noticed cheese depredation and just put it down to mice? Go check for false walls.-- not_morrison_rm, Dec 07 2014 random, halfbakery