“What’s the most wrong prediction you’ve ever made?” – 25 of the best (worst)
13.
I met Boy George and Marilyn in Billys or Gossip – one of those places early 80s – and predicted that Marilyn who was drop dead gorgeous at the time was going to be massive as soon as he dropped his moody mate with dreadlocks.
— Rob Chapman (@rcscribbler) May 11, 2020
14.
This seems too fun and playful a thread to ruin by mentioning how scornfully I dismissed any suggestion that Trump could actually become president.
— PFB Nelson (@pfbnelson) May 11, 2020
15.
"2020 will be a good year, I can feel it."
Me, NYE 2019.
— Duke Silver (@Carl0sAlbert0) May 11, 2020
16.
Spice Girls first appearance on TV: "They're like a sixth form talent show. That's the last we'll see of them".
Steven Gerrard's first sub appearance for Liverpool: "He's too lightweight. Not going to make it in the top flight."
— Steve Hallmark* (@warburtonchacha) May 11, 2020
17.
My ex was at uni with someone who was starting to get noticed as an actor. One night we watched something he was in, and ex pointed him out. "I can't see him getting anywhere with a name like Benedict Cumberbatch, though", I thought.
— Hello Gillian (@mippy) May 11, 2020
18.
Las Vegas, 1994. I'd just finished a Nine Inch Nails interview and Trent Reznor gave me a couple of CDs by this new act he was looking after. I looked at it and thought "Nah, this isn't for me" and got rid. Marilyn Manson, innit. Who I now love. I could have been in at the start.
— Simon Price (@simon_price01) May 11, 2020
19.
I saw one of the first recordings of Pointless, and also Russel Howard's Good News, and both of them I said were rubbish and would never get a second series haha
— Sophie Gadd (@sophie_gadd) May 11, 2020
20.
I was teaching German A level in May 1989 and had taught the history of Berlin. One student asked when I thought the Berlin Wall would come down. I said I didn’t think it would come down in my lifetime. I often wonder what he thought when he watched events unfold 5 months later !
— downender (@downender55) May 11, 2020
21.
Watched an early episode of Friends 20-odd years ago and commented to my then wife what a ludicrous business model this was.
A shop that just sold coffee and cake and encouraged people to sit around for hours?!?
“It’d go bust within a week” I said… pic.twitter.com/a6InqdUsSl
— Fly* (@FPL_Fly) May 11, 2020
22.
The iPad won't be a big seller as people already have phones and laptops.
— Danger Daniels (@DangerDaniels) May 11, 2020
23.
"John Major desn't have a chance of winning the conservative leadership contest…" Me, 1990.
— Julian Burnell (@BearBurnell) May 11, 2020
24.
I read Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park when it first came out. My sister had just read it too – 'It would make a great film', she said. 'Don't be RIDICULOUS' I replied, scornfully. 'It would be impossible to make a film out of that.'
— Lissa Evans (@LissaKEvans) May 11, 2020
25.
I bet my ex £5 that ‘You’re Welcome’ in Moana would be a bigger hit than Frozen’s ‘Let it go’.
Either that or spending almost a decade at my last job thinking I’d get a promotion. Close call.— Toby Tilling (@tobytilling) May 11, 2020
David Whitley certainly wasn’t alone in this enormously optimistic assessment.
That virus coming out of China will fizzle out pretty quickly.
— David Whitley (@mrdavidwhitley) May 11, 2020
It’s the modern equivalent of the Great War prediction “It’ll be over by Christmas.”
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