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Let me share with you something which was written (and delivered) by someone I greatly admire. Scott Simon is a Peabody Award-winning journalist, and his
wit is golden. Here are some of Scott's predictions for the new year, as broadcast over National Public Radio's Weekend Edition, which he anchors. This is only part of his latest offering, and is too good not to share
• In 2003... Winona Ryder will be interviewed by Barbara Walters. She'll reveal herself to be frail and vulnerable ... now she knows herself. She is healing. She will
cry.
• Time AOL Warner, Disney/ABC and GE/NBC will all buy each other. The merged corporation will create a combination cell phone, Web browser, content provider,
and lightbulb. Only the lightbulb part will work.
• The Raelians will perfect the cloning of human beings. That will only create more Raelians. To compete, the Scientologists will clone John Travolta and Tom
Cruise. Orders will flood in.
• Seventy-six people will declare themselves candidates for the Democratic nomination for president. They will all present themselves as open, vulnerable
human beings. They will not cry, except perhaps in 2004 after the Iowa Caucuses.
• To compete against the Raelians and Scientologists, George Steinbrenner will clone Derek Jeter for the New York Yankees. Mini Jeters will play all
positions on the field. Derek will pinch hit for himself.
On making predictions, Simon says that Daniel Schorr once told him, 'If you're wrong, people will say, "How could anyone be that stupid?" If you're occasionally
right, people will say, "How obvious."' Hear the entire Scott Simon prediction segment from the January 4th Weekend Edition, at NPR.com.
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