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Worst Predictions Ever

The first one: :rotfl2: Sad and funny at the same time.

The second one: Can't even read it. Could you possibly make it a little bigger?

The first one was fine. Then I hit the second one and it REALLY hurt my eyes !!! :doh:

For the first one it's called printed propaganda by the ruling regime.

The second one was developed specifically for IMAX in 3D. Cameron spared no expense.

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl (Post 1460219)

Cameron spared no expense.

Neither did John Hammond. And we all know how that turned out.

http://blastr.com/assets_c/2009/12/j...x314-29817.jpg

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1460320)

Neither did John Hammond. And we all know how that turned out.

Awesomely

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...assic-park.jpg

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Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin (Post 1460410)

Awesomely

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...assic-park.jpg

:yeah:

I wait the whole movie for that moment.

(FK luvs her some t-rex.)

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl (Post 1460219)

The second one was developed specifically for IMAX in 3D. Cameron spared no expense.

Are you talking about the movie or the picture in the post?
:rotfl2:

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1460469)

Are you talking about the movie or the picture in the post?
:rotfl2:

The picture, dude! I know it can be hard to tell when I'm joking because most of my jokes aren't funny, but - oh wait, you're messing with me aren't you? That's not funny!:O:

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl (Post 1460621)

most of my jokes aren't funny

I resemble that remark! :O:

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl (Post 1460621)

I know it can be hard to tell when I'm joking...

Actually in print it can be hard to tell when anybody's joking.

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but - oh wait, you're messing with me aren't you? That's not funny!:O:

Actually I was serious, because I seriously didn't know. I thought there might be something I had missed, because I miss a lot.

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1460749)

Actually I was serious, because I seriously didn't know. I thought there might be something I had missed, because I miss a lot.

It's obvious you're missing the point here ;)

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1460749)

Actually in print it can be hard to tell when anybody's joking.

Damn Al Gore, damn this intransigent digital medium, and damn Johannes Gutenburg!

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1460749)

Actually in print it can be hard to tell when anybody's joking.

What about when they use cursive? :O:

Get it? Print-Cursive? Oh never mind...

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Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin (Post 1460808)

It's obvious you're missing the point here ;)

If you're serious, which point am I missing?

If you're not, then I'm really missing the point...or something...:dead:

I'll add Jehovha's witnesses and the multiple end of the world guess':har:

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1914 was one of the more important estimates of the start of the war of Armageddon by the Jehovah's Witnesses (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society). They based their prophecy of 1914 from prophecy in the book of Daniel, Chapter 4. The writings referred to "seven times". The WTS interpreted each "time" as equal to 360 days, giving a total of 2520 days. This was further interpreted as representing 2520 years, measured from the starting date of 607 BCE. This gave 1914 as the target date. When 1914 passed, they changed their prediction; 1914 became the year that Jesus invisibly began his rule.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/_t...o/topbul1d.gif1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975 and 1994, etc. were other dates that the Watchtower Society (WTS) or its members predicted. http://www.religioustolerance.org/_t...o/topbul2d.gifSince late in the 19th century, they had taught that the "battle of the Great Day of God Almighty" (Armageddon) would happen in 1914 CE. It didn't. http://www.religioustolerance.org/_t...o/topbul2d.gifThe next major estimate was 1925. Watchtower magazine predicted: "The year 1925 is a date definitely and clearly marked in the Scriptures, even more clearly than that of 1914; but it would be presumptuous on the part of any faithful follower of the Lord to assume just what the Lord is going to do during that year." 6http://www.religioustolerance.org/_t...o/topbul2d.gifThe Watchtower Society selected 1975 as its next main prediction. This was based on the estimate "according to reliable Bible chronology Adam was created in the year 4026 BCE, likely in the autumn of the year, at the end of the sixth day of creation." 8 They believed that the year 1975 a promising date for the end of the world, as it was the 6,000th anniversary of Adam's creation. Exactly 1,000 years was to pass for each day of the creation week. This prophecy also failed. http://www.religioustolerance.org/_t...o/topbul2d.gifThe current estimate is that the end of the world as we know it will happen precisely 6000 years after the creation of Eve. 9 There is no way of knowing when this happened.

"What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense." - Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton's steamboat, 1800s

"Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure." - Henry Morton, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, on Edison's light bulb, 1880

"The phonograph has no commercial value at all." - Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1880s

"Very interesting, Whittle, my boy, but it will never work." - Cambridge Aeronautics Professor, when shown Frank Whittle's plan for the jet engine

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

I am glad noboby made the movie "Dieter" mentioned in OP's second picture. It would have cemented the prejudice that all Germans love The Hoff for eternity :cry:

"Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."
-Dr. Dionysus Lardner, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy (1793-1859)

"Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean."
-Dionysus Lardner

"It is an idle dream to imagine that automobiles will take the place of railways in the long distance movement of passengers."
American Railroad Congress, 1913

"I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone."
-Charles Darwin