bad opinion generator...

[Sasha]

http://theweek.com/article/index/218150/bad-opinion-generator#


:lol:

[Drowzy_Shooter]

I wouldn't say they were bad, some of them were just inaccurate.

[Ose]

"Tomorrow’s belle of the ball may spray her hair with a substance that attracts butterflies, and then release her own butterflies from a plastic bag so that they can hover around her head during the evening."

—Henry Still, Man: the Next 30 Years, 1968

[PC LOAD LETTER]

“It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming.”
-Coco Chanel, designer, on the miniskirt, 1966




“Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within 10 years.”

—Alex Lewyt, president of the Lewyt Corp. vacuum company, 1955

[Anarpest]

Some of these seem a bit iffy. The more recent predictions are sometimes things which might happen sometime in the future, or just things which it was predicted 'may' happen without any definite statement. A couple are just opinions on quality, and there isn't necessarily anything wrong with them.

Still, thanks, that was a bit of fun. It did get a bit monotonous after a short time, however, due to most of the entries being almost identical in format and point.

[Ostrinski]

“It will be years — not in my time — before a woman will become prime minister.”
http://4.images.theweek.com/images/bad_opinion_middle.png?82 http://1.images.theweek.com/images/bad_opinion_left.png?82 —Margaret Thatcher, who went on to become Britain’s prime minister, 1974

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

this is so true tho



"Adhesive tape will be strong enough to take care of all household repairs [by the year 2000]."

[hatzel]

You know I clicked this thread thinking you'd perhaps written a piece of code that would take us to a random post on RevLeft. Ah well...

[PC LOAD LETTER]

this is so true tho



"Adhesive tape will be strong enough to take care of all household repairs [by the year 2000]."





Hell yes. Duct tape fixes everything.

[Red Rabbit]

“We will… be greeted as liberators.”
—Vice-President Dick Cheney, on America’s invasion of Iraq, 2003

:D

[Comrade Samuel]

“The Japanese don’t make anything the people in the U.S. would want.”

—John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State, 1954

Its funny because I typed this post from my iPod and it said "made in japan" on the box :laugh:

[Dogs On Acid]

“The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.”

—Charlie Chaplin, predicting the demise of movies, 1916

How can this be a "bad opinion"? Fucking spot on. (SAW, I'm looking at you).

[Ted Lawrence]

I thought this was a thread about chefdave.

[Pretty Flaco]

"What could be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"
The Quarterly Review, 1825

[Bostana]

"DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN"

—The Chicago Tribune, in a famously presumptuous and inaccurate headline after Harry S. Truman won the 1948 election, defying expectations


"The actor’s first duty is to his profession. Hence, you can rest assured that I will never again run for mayor or anything but head man in my own household."

—Ronald Reagan, The Hollywood Reporter, 1955