http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=21380 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 21:19:10 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=21380#post-57948 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:45:21 +0000 Haz 57948@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Make Snodgrass a journo then call in "Hack to the Future"? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=21380#post-57924 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:52:02 +0000 beau-jolly 57924@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I was thinking along the lines of "Scientists find spot-on teenager". </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=21380#post-57905 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:14:22 +0000 Scroat 57905@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Great stuff. Header could say something about how technology got sacrificed to trivia, or something. Brain not working this morning.<br /> ***** </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=21380#post-57900 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:01:52 +0000 Sinnick 57900@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent, Oxy, 5*</p> <p>Perhaps "Schoolboy visionary finally recognised"<br /> Snappier, though not funnier. Commas in headlines don't work for me. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=21380#post-57890 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:16:06 +0000 pinxit 57890@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Love it. ***** </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=21380#post-57874 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:16:30 +0000 yamashow 57874@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If only they had listened to young schoolboy. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=21380#post-57850 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:56:50 +0000 malgor 57850@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><em>Back to 'The Future'</em>. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=21380#post-57847 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:25:17 +0000 AndyOverhead 57847@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Great story line. I had thought about 'Looking back, the future is dull' but it doesn't actually reflect the story fundamentals. Damn!<br /> Oh, and who would have thought 40 years ago that in 2011 NASA would still be dicking around in space, when they can actually manage a successful launch, having decided the moon was too boring :) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=21380#post-57844 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:22:29 +0000 rikkor 57844@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>5-plus-plus! So good. </p> <p>I remember the phone company telling us that everyone would have PicturePhone by the 1970's. Well, now we have Skype and nobody wants to use it. </p> <p>Someone (not me) should write about the demise of the hang-up call and the pervert call. No one under 30 knows what they are. Do you have Prince Albert in a can? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=21380#post-57841 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:52:27 +0000 Oxbridge 57841@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cheers. Added line: ...And in those days you actually had to write out 100 lines, you couldn't just copy and paste it off the web. I didn't see that one coming, I must admit' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=21380#post-57820 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:54:46 +0000 malgor 57820@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like it. May be something like Retrospective recognition for forward-looking schoolboy? Not snappier, but makes the brain go a bit cross-eyed. The only thing he failed to anticipate was that he would eventually win the recognition. Also he failed to anticipate that 40 years on, detention would be so much easier. Now, they just copy and paste their 100 lines off the internet and hand them in by email. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=21380#post-57799 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:53:44 +0000 Oxbridge 57799@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If anyone can think of a snappier title, that would be much appreciated... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=21380#post-57798 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:52:53 +0000 Oxbridge 57798@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A historic wrong has finally been belatedly righted, with the award of the 1971 ‘Science in Schools’ Essay Prize to Raymond Snodgrass, a 52-year-old petrol station manager from Worksop. Snodgrass has been hailed as a visionary for foreseeing that people in 2011 would be using technology to do much the same stupid crap as they did then in a slightly more advanced way. Way back then, he was just ridiculed.</p> <p>The prize, organised by the Science Museum in partnership with the BBC, had clever school children up and down the country excited by the chance to meet James Burke of Tomorrow’s World and win £100 in premium bonds. They were challenged to write 500 words on ‘How Will Science Change Our Lives in 40 Years Time’.</p> <p>Snodgrass’s essay detailed how he believed that the people of 2011 would be able to carry a small television in their briefcases, attach it to an electronic typewriter and tell loads of friends they had never met about the yummy tuna-mayo sandwich they’d just had for lunch. Sadly, the competition judges never saw this: it was read out sarcastically by his Physics teacher to a jeering Class 3A of Alderman Bagnall Comprehensive and thrown into a cupboard, where it was rediscovered last month.</p> <p>The actual prize winner, Darius Meadows-Smith of Latymer Upper Grammar School in London, went on to enjoy a successful career designing software for derivatives traders. At the formal ceremony held in London today to strip him of his title, Meadows-Smith said that he was very pleased that justice had finally been done.</p> <p>‘I feel a fraud to be honest,’ he remarked. ‘Like everyone else, I wrote about how we would all be taking packages holidays to the Moon, how robots would do all the housework and that food would come in small pills. None of it every happened. What an unimaginative little twerp I was.’</p> <p>In accepting his belated prize, now adjusted for inflation to 500 Nectar points and a signed copy of Nadine Coyle out of Girls Aloud’s new album, Snodgrass said that he was pleased to be recognised at last. However, he added that he still felt bitter about his treatment in 1971 and wondered if his life might have turned out better.</p> <p>‘Look at these words I wrote,’ he told reporters. ‘”Maybe in 2011 boys won’t need to trick girls into going behind the bike sheds because they’ll be able to use miniature spy cameras to send them pictures of their cocks direct to an electric device smaller than an oven.” I literally saw the future. And what did I get for it? Bloody detention, that’s what.’ </p>