2008 - Paraguay goes missing, which causes consternation for those who believed that landlocked countries couldn't get up to much. It is spotted on CCTV leaving a Yates's Wine Lodge in Dunstaple in the early hours of a November Sunday morning with an unidentified blonde girl, and safely returned to its original location after a short period of rehabilitation.
Kenny The Wisdom of Amazon Customer Reviews:
(Sudden Cardiac Arrest would be a bit redundant, anyway. I mean, in medical terms "sudden" is synonymous with "acute," which is the opposite of "chronic." It's not like anyone is in a state of CHRONIC Cardiac Arrest. That's called "dead." The closest thing would be Congestive Heart Failure, which can be either chronic or acute, and if that's something you need to worry about, then your doctor's already told you everything you need to know.)
The bottle of vodka bet stands. However, I'll give you double or quits that in 2009, money is globally discredited as a form of exchange and a running double that Gary Glitter is elected to the Presidency of Thailand.
HRH Queen Elizabeth II dies. Charles accedes to the throne but the reading of Her Late Majesty's will reveals that she has bequeathed the country to her favourite corgi. Charles declares independence for the Duchy of Cornwall, and rules as Grand Duke on the wave of popularity among the cornish which the move generates.
The rest of Britain is ruled by first Liberal Democrat PM Lembit Opik, with a genetic clone of Princess Diana as co-regent.
Andy Black is destroyed by a pole-reversing meteorite which hits Yellowstone, causing it to erupt and melt the icecaps, but even that fails to stop the nanobots. A few thousand of the planet's most intelligent and beautiful people, as well as renowned president-assassinator Rendle, escape to Titan to finish building their giant space ark.
Paraguay, which had buggered off again just before the whole business with the meteor and the pole reversal and Yellowstone and the nanites, reappears and is startled by all the changes.
Kenny The Wisdom of Amazon Customer Reviews:
(Sudden Cardiac Arrest would be a bit redundant, anyway. I mean, in medical terms "sudden" is synonymous with "acute," which is the opposite of "chronic." It's not like anyone is in a state of CHRONIC Cardiac Arrest. That's called "dead." The closest thing would be Congestive Heart Failure, which can be either chronic or acute, and if that's something you need to worry about, then your doctor's already told you everything you need to know.)
