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Chat => General => Topic started by: smurfboy on May 22, 2006, 02:51:17 pm

Title: How wrong can you be?
Post by: smurfboy on May 22, 2006, 02:51:17 pm

Have you ever made a prediction that turned out to be embarrassingly wrong? I once saw this girl band on TV singing what I thought was an awful novelty song that would sink without trace. The band? The Spice Girls...

My M.A. lecturer was a book reviewer and once reviewed a poetry anthology on the role of Orangeman in Ulster. She dismissed it as pretty poor and said we'd never hear of this poet again. It was Seamus Heaney.

Title: How wrong can you be?
Post by: minty on May 22, 2006, 02:52:04 pm

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Title: How wrong can you be?
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on May 22, 2006, 04:04:29 pm

I thought Cadbury's Wispas would be around for years to come *sigh*

Title: How wrong can you be?
Post by: smurfboy on May 22, 2006, 04:46:38 pm

Well it lasted twenty years so that's not too bad.

Title: How wrong can you be?
Post by: on May 22, 2006, 06:50:03 pm

I'm never that wrong.  I've only been wrong twice this year.

Title: How wrong can you be?
Post by: smurfboy on May 22, 2006, 06:57:47 pm

For two and a half months at a time?

Title: How wrong can you be?
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on May 23, 2006, 10:32:09 am

Quote from: smurfboy

Well it lasted twenty years so that's not too bad.

Really? I didn't realise it was so long.

Title: How wrong can you be?
Post by: oldspice on May 23, 2006, 10:01:32 pm

I did not believe Cliff Richard when he sang "I'll be a bachelor boy until my dying day".