Might Belong to a Redneck if... |
| "I have always found strangers sexy." | Hugh Grant, six months before he was arrested with stranger Divine Brown. |
| "I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear." | Margaret Thatcher in 1973. |
| "That rainbow song's no good. Take it out." | MGM memo after first showing of The Wizard Of Oz. |
| "You'd better learn secretarial skills or else get married." | Modelling agency, rejecting Marilyn Monroe in 1944. |
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"Radio has no future." X-rays are clearly a hoax" "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible." | Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-9. |
| "You ought to go back to driving a truck." | Concert manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954. |
| "DOS Is Dead, now that Windows is out" | Bill Gates in 1988 |
| "Forget it. No Civil War picture ever made a nickel." | MGM executive, advising against investing in Gone With The Wind. |
| "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little." | A film company's verdict on Fred Astaire's 1928 screen test. |
| "Very interesting, Whittle, my boy, but it will never work." | Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Cambridge, shown Frank Whittle's plan for the jet engine. |
| "There will be one million cases of AIDS in Britain by 1991." | World Health Organisation in a 1989 report. It over-estimated by 992,301 cases. |
| "The Beatles? They're on the wane." | The Duke of Edinburgh in Canada, 1965. They went on to produce a string of No 1s. |
| "The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak as an expert in explosives." | U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945. |
| "All saved from Titanic after collision." | New York Evening Sun, April 15 1912. |
| "Brain work will cause women to go bald." | Berlin professor, 1914. |
| "Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine." | Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936. |
| "Everything that can be invented has been invented." | Director of the US Patent Office, 1899. |
| "And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in Vietnam." | Newsweek magazine, predicting popular holidays for the late 1960s. |