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                               Oscars cancelled!
                                        
> “This has been an embarrassing year for all of us and I think it's best if
> we just forget that it ever happened,” AMPAS executive director Bruce Davis
> said at a press conference. “I mean, when two of the five Best Picture
> nominees are `Lord of the Rings' and `Harry Potter,' and the other three
> are animated films, I think we as a community have to admit we have a
> problem.
> 
> “Could you come up with even one Best Actor nominee this year?” Davis
> added, disgustedly. “We were so frustrated that we were thinking of
> relaxing the rules to include Osama bin Laden's Al-Jazeera videos, but
> ultimately decided against it.”
> 

Via InstaPundit [1], Predictions, Schmedictions! [2]

I also liked the prediction of French strikers going on strike. While these
aren't real predictions, I wouldn't mind them actually happening—they're
quite amusing.

[1] http://www.instapundit.com/
[2] http://www.msnbc.com/news/680107.asp

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