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May 22, 2006

Hilariously Ironic Historical Mispredictions, Pt. 1

"Not only will Dewey defeat Truman in this year's election, Truman will never hold up a copy of our newspaper with the erroneous headline 'DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.'" -- a Chicago Tribune editor, November 1948

"A dog will never graduate from high school." -- famed isobiologist Rikard Huss, November 1968

Posted by marxy at May 22, 2006 11:28 AM

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To be fair, Airbud skated through with a bunch of jock-classes. Plus, the teachers totally favor the star atheletes.

After all, there's nothing in the rule-book that says a dog can't play basketball.

Posted by: Rory P. Wavekrest at May 22, 2006 2:02 PM

And there's nothing to say that they can't make an Airbud sequel for every sport imaginable.

Posted by: marxy at May 22, 2006 2:35 PM

where is the "animal that curls" movie? I see an elephant as being best suited to the role of "animal", but it may be too soon after the major elephant-driven picture from late last year. can a tapir grab stuff with that nose?

Posted by: nate at May 22, 2006 3:34 PM

They are brilliant though.
Golden Reciever
World Pups
ha!

I smell a Predicted Titles of Future Installments in the Airbud Series Neomarxisme post coming...

Posted by: Rory P. Wavekrest at May 22, 2006 3:35 PM

I think a sea lion would curl well.

Posted by: Rory P. Wavekrest at May 22, 2006 3:36 PM

At the annual “crying sumo” competition in Asakusa, 74 babies competed to become the national wailing champion. Two infants are carried into the dojo by university sumo wrestlers who try to make them cry by pulling scary faces. According to a Japanese proverb, “the more babies cry, the healthier they grow up.”

from metropolis magazine website, a logical follow-up to the saaya spiel as we move down the foodchain. after this we could tackle sashimi.

Posted by: alin at May 23, 2006 3:05 PM

Ok, thanks for sparking this off, Alin.
So, Airbud does Sumo...Japanese title:

Airbud VII: Chanko Wanko

Posted by: Rory P. Wavekrest at May 23, 2006 4:37 PM

[pre-climax conflict]

"There's nothing in the rule book that says a dog can't enter the Sumo ring..."

"No, No, Ancient Sumo tradition says, no bitches in the ring."

Posted by: Rory P. Wavekrest at May 23, 2006 4:42 PM

from metropolis magazine website, a logical follow-up to the saaya spiel as we move down the foodchain. after this we could tackle sashimi.

Are you calling me lower on the foodchain than Metropolis?

Posted by: marxy at May 23, 2006 5:11 PM

eh ,

Posted by: alin at May 23, 2006 5:33 PM

slow news day?

Posted by: Chris_B at May 23, 2006 8:30 PM

there was bitch vs. bitch sumo in japan up until world war II.

Posted by: r. at May 23, 2006 9:35 PM

Which they lost. Ever wonder why? Think about it.

Posted by: Carl at May 24, 2006 2:00 PM

A league of their own, eh?

I thought it was a big taboo, and some female mayor down in Osaka wasn't even allowed to step into the ring to present the championship trophy.

Something like that, can't be bothered.

Posted by: Rory P. Wavekrest at May 24, 2006 2:56 PM