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December 29, 2006
The Top 20 Predictions Made in 1957
That Didn't Quite Come True
- By 2007, the immorality of the beatnik movement will signal the end of civilization.
- After his performance in "Hellcats of the Navy," actor Ronald Reagan will sink into well-deserved obscurity.
- Overpasses will be raised to accommodate automobile tail fins of the future.
- 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.
- Congress will amend the Constitution to allow President Elvis A. Presley to serve another eight years.
- The U.S. tax code will become so simplified that every household can file a tax return in three easy steps.
- The last few remaining non-smokers will be sterilized and exiled to a detention facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
- The newly transplanted San Diego Yankees will win the 1959 world series, then succumb to years of mediocrity.
- In 2007, comrades in USSA will celebrate 90th anniversary of glorious people's revolution!
- "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."
- Atomic-powered flying cars will free us forever from the tyranny of 29-cent-per-gallon gasoline.
- By the year 2007, every city will own a computer.
- Advanced technology allows people to play phonograph records in their cars -- with no skipping!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Seatbelts, schmeatbelts.
- Built to last with technology of the future, the RCA black-and-white 18-inch television will remain the industry standard.
- 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...
- Times may change, but the name "Hilton" will always denote class.
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Selected from 99 submissions from 39 contributors.
Today's Top Five List authors were:
- Larry Hollister, Concord, CA -- 1 (77th #1) Hall of Famer
- Dave Goudsward, Lake Worth, FL -- 2
- Jeff Rabinowitz, Wilkes-Barre, PA -- 3
- Jill Gallagher, Seattle, WA -- 4
- Mark D. Sabien, What Cheer, IA -- 5 Website / Hall of Famer
- Curtis Stoddard, Cedar Hills, UT -- 6
- Michael Sheinbaum, Guilford, CT -- 7 Website
- Caryn Kennealy, Glendale, CA -- 8
- David Zechiel, Lake Forest, CA -- 9, Topic
- Bruce W. Alter, Fairfax Station, VA -- 10
- Fran Fruit, Winnetka, IL -- 11 Hall of Famer
- Carl Knorr, Devo City, OH -- 12 Website / Hall of Famer
- Stephen A. Segall, Poplar Bluff, MO -- 13
- Donald Junter, New Haven, CT -- 13, Banner Tag
- Sandra Hull, Arlington, VA -- 14 Website / Hall of Famer
- Tom Stoudt, Fort Washington, PA -- 15 Hall of Famer
- Tristan Fabriani, Passaic, NJ -- 16
- Bill Muse, Seattle, WA -- 18 Hall of Famer
- Chris White, Los Angeles, CA -- List owner/editor Hall of Famer
- Less Than Jake, Gainesville, FL -- Ambience (explanation)
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