What's your best guess/prediction for October 2020?
102020 has been a bit eventful so far. You know: January, February, Quarantine, November, December. 2020. Post your prediction(s) below as a meme, gif, or just words. (what a novel idea, right?)
And how unfortunate that I must add this; could we please refrain from politics. We know about the upcoming debates. It’s not that we don’t care it’s that we are all getting tired of it.
Here’s my prediction:
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Riots. I’m numb already.
2020 in summary:
I don’t have to rake the leaves that fall because I live in an apartment. And while I won’t miss raking, I will miss living in a neighborhood and watching kids play in those leaf piles.
90 degrees and wildfires
pumpkins rotting at the supermarket
but no pumpkin puree to be found anywhere.
@Cerridwyn Different pumpkins for eating and for carving/display… Look for the small round ones the size of canteloupes.
@mike808
I know
It’s because people in some places who carve them to decorate for trick or treating won’t be
/giphy jack o’lantern
@Cerridwyn @mike808 Where can I get one of these, smoke included!
No Halloween, no traditional Thanksgiving, no black Friday. I cannot wait for it to be over…
@tinamarie1974 I for one will not miss Black Friday.
@Mehrocco_Mole I will
@tinamarie1974 They’ve been destroying traditional Thanksgiving since all the stores started opening Thursday afternoon for ‘black friday’.
My prediction for October 2020, considering how the year has gone so far: We finally get that alien invasion. A fleet of spaceships will circle the planet, with one sending down a landing craft to wherever the aliens think is the place controlling the world (my bet is on Hollywood, or maybe Calcutta) with a demand that the planet be surrendered to them. A mob will surround the landing craft, select a spokesperson, who will say: “Okay. Fine with us! It’s yours in exchange for a couple of your spaceships and directions to a livable planet somewhere else.” The aliens will return to their ship, reconsider their plan, and depart Earth never to return, after leaving a warning beacon on the moon.
@rockblossom
Looking for a link where you can actually see it. you can read about it here. saw the original overhead projector slide presentation in 1976 and actually have a copy somewhere still, I think…
https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Capture_Coloring_Book
@rockblossom
I’ve failed
and they say you can find anything on the interwebs -
/giphy they lie
@Cerridwyn @rockblossom
… On arriving back at their home planet, they will be quarantined for 14 days after which time they will be cleared to return to the general population. Unfortunately, due to a difference in their planet’s speed of rotation 14 days will be the equivalent of 3.4 earth days and they will proceed to infect their home planet with SARS-CoV 2 and the entire population will be wiped out due to it’s lack of resistance to human virus strains.
An intergalactic tribunal will be charged with rendering judgement on the source of the infection, and Earth will be incinerated to prevent the spread of the virus to any other unsuspecting aliens.
Then in November…
@chienfou Well, they will leave people alive in California, since they will mistakenly think they had already torched the place; and a few in NOLA and Miami will escape because they will be underwater at the time …
@chienfou @rockblossom
/giphy california rules
woohoo
/image LOL
@Cerridwyn @chienfou @rockblossom I’m not convinced that California has rules…
@chienfou @phendrick @rockblossom
what are these rules you speak of?
/giphy rules
@Cerridwyn @rockblossom
The Amazon page for the capture coloring book has the intro page you can read and at least one other page
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Fiction-Memorabilia-Capture-Coloring/dp/B00V5HVDQM
You can’t get books on the web unless they are in the public domain. Copyright is 70 years at least.
@rockblossom @unksol
yeah, but fanfic was not heavily copywritten back then, I mean, using Xerox machines cost more than a book at the store.
but they did both go on to being pros, so that might be it.
but I know I found a complete online copy once. because i shared it with a friend and we laughed together. it might have been taken down.
i actually have an original foglio, not from this ‘book’ but from, again, back when he was a fan artist.
I predict that October will follow shortly after September and just before November. I’ll even take odds on it.
That is, unless the Illuminati, having lost considerable riches due to the pandemic lock-down, persuade Bezos to move Christmas up twelve weeks to promote sales.
October is going to keep on sucking.
I’m gonna try this…
/giphy keep on sucking
@Barney
and it worked beautifully… even some purple for your efforts!
@chienfou Yep, and I love purple.
@Barney
I predict that it will have 31 days.
A little late, but still worthy…
@shahnm
There will be a mehrathon!
@romellex Judging by the IRKs in the last two Mehrathons, who cares? When the average BOC on Woot! is twice as good… well let’s say Meh has hit a new low. (yes, I’m venting) I mean a plastic make-up tray, a bag of tens pads (I think), a tea filter part that is useless by itself. and the IRK bag. This wasn’t worth the $5. OK, I’ll stop venting now. It was just this happened twice in a row.
[edit] Oh, and the 0.7 lbs wasn’t a place holder, it was the actual weight of the package.
@Mehrocco_Mole @romellex
/youtube Nothing from nothing leaves nothing
@f00l Smart ass.
We’re gonna get hit by a big frickin’ meteor that none of our observatories spotted.
Because that’s pretty much the only thing that hasn’t happened yet in 2020.
Frickin’ Meteors!
Massive solar flares, late hurricanes that run until January (already had one that stuck around into December), orange juice is black market only.
@OldCatLady Oh yeah. Totally forgot solar flares. That’ll fix our wagons for sure. Maybe December.
New month same ol shit.