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    Well, it's time to make predictions about 2004 and then mercifully forget about them when they go spectacularily wrong.

    Israelis and Palestinians will continue to kill each other.

    EU will engage in a lot of bureaucratic ****ery and infighting and won't get anything done.

    Some far-right group will, once again, do unexpectedly well in an European election. The European press gabbles and paints Hitlers on the wall.

    2004 will prove that there's no limit to Michael Jackson's crazy. When the trial really gets underway the tabloids will be having multiple orgasms each day.

    Big-time celebrity deaths will continue. I peg Reagan and the Pope.

    No new Bushfire wars, at least this year. Plenty of rhetoric about Syria, Iran and North Korea, but no particular action.

    In the end, the moderate Democrats unite and manage to prevent Dean from taking the nomination. Genl. Clark will take the nomination and go on to lose to Bush by 5-8 points. Everybody starts getting ready for 2008, where the GOP will have an open primary and the Dems prepare for the all-time battle of titans - Hillary vs. Gore vs. Dean, who still has his supporter networks going in one form or the other.

    2004 will be a mixed year for music - there's going to be a plenty of brilliant under-the-radar stuff, but mainstream music will continue to be complete crap. BRITNAYpop rules the day, and rap metal and pop-punk will ground on with vengeance in the teen male demographic. However, the signs will start showing up - 2005 will change it all.

    There'll be technical inventions and stuff like that, but nothing really life-changing.
    "Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
    "That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the world

  • #2
    10 new countries will join the European Union

    Now seriously,

    -Bush is going to win the elections
    -Some conservative (or very conservative) guy, even by Church's standards, is going to be elected as the new pope.
    -The conservative party will win the Spanish elections but will be unable to form a goverment.
    -The US army will continue in Iraq.
    Trying to rehabilitateh and contribuing again to the civ-community

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    • #3
      I become a father!
      Founder of The Glory of War, CHAMPIONS OF APOLYTON!!!
      '92 & '96 Perot, '00 & '04 Bush, '08 & '12 Obama, '16 Clinton, '20 Biden, '24 Harris

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      • #4
        congrats man
        "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

        "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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        • #5
          The Athens Olympics will get canceled due to unfortunate circumstances, namely that the only things finished on time will be a new bus lane leading from the airport to where the main stadium was supposed to be, one basketball court and a couple of hot dog stands.

          Jacques Rogge announces that Greece will host again "no sooner than 2736", but at the same time declares Athens 2004 to be "the best nearly held Games ever".

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          • #6

            not likely my little danish winston not likely but damn funny

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            • #7
              Winston

              Anyway it would be cool if someone found the thread from last year

              [ placeholder to predict something when I feel better ]

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              • #8
                winston

                btw did anyone see the pictures near the end of last year (2003) in the news of the world, showing the new stadium. apparently they had to bribe some security guard to let them in to take photos (and we all know how funny the greeks are about that of sort of thing ) because the greek authorities don't want people seeing what's been done so far.

                considering what's been built, the attitude of the authorities is not altogether suprising...
                Last edited by C0ckney; January 1, 2004, 11:27.
                "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

                "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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                • #9
                  bah just jealous cause 5 million denmark never got them while 10 million greece got them alright being the smallest country ever to get them (and twice). actually i couldnt care less about them but seeing all the jealousy turning green makes my day and besides, we are last minute people, everything will be in order at the LAST MINUTE. thats how we do business.
                  some people dont know that about us, whereas they should, and get panicked. dont worry the poor albanians immigrants are working their butts off for them for minimum pay...
                  Last edited by Bereta_Eder; January 1, 2004, 11:31.

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                  • #10
                    last minute! at this rate you'll be getting the althletes to build their own olyimpic village when they arrive
                    "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

                    "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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                    • #11

                      that would be funny indeed

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                      • #12
                        70% of all facilities were already built before the bid was even made BTW. what's 30% more?
                        pfffft

                        athens has hosted so many european and world championships this isnt that big of a deal. just some weird facilities for curling and we're set.

                        besiiiides look at atlanta and then canada we dont have to compete with geniouses and cant be done worse than them

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                        • #13
                          well be that as it may the list of new events for this oylimpics doesn't do much to reassure people:

                          brick laying
                          hodd carrying
                          JCB driving
                          trowling...

                          "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

                          "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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                          • #14
                            naaaah slavery has long ended i think im not sure

                            here have alook


                            Greece Says It's Met '03 Goals for Games
                            Wed Dec 31, 7:31 AM ET Add Sports - Reuters to My Yahoo!



                            ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has completed all the work planned for this year ahead of the 2004 Olympic Games (news - web sites), with some projects ahead of schedule, the country's top Olympics official said on Wednesday.


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                            "We succeeded with intensive efforts and co-ordinated and substantial work to complete 100 percent of our program for 2003," Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos told daily newspaper Naftemboriki.


                            "In some cases we exceeded 100 percent by speeding up projects and our actions," he added.


                            International Olympic Committee (news - web sites) (IOC) President Jacques Rogge said on Tuesday the IOC was confident preparations were on course, even though organizers in Athens would still face "tough days" in the eight months leading up to the Games.


                            Greece, which fell badly behind in its preparations three years ago, has increased efforts to make up for lost time, earning praise from top Olympics officials.


                            IOC inspectors, however, have repeatedly warned that timetables remained tight and that organizers needed to keep up the momentum.







                            now those guys are funny. they worry tooooo much. we have it uneder control. they need to relax a little bit. LAST MINUTE people, and its more fun that way

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                            • #15
                              plus prepare yourselves for unprecedented rubbing down your bloody neck ancient glamor of unprecedented proportions at the opening. it will be like zeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus himself descended to bless tha games
                              god help us

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