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* ''War of Machines'' contains the line "Japanese scientists further advised their government that neither the Germans nor the Americans could possibly deflect enough of their productive resources to a bomb project to have a weapon [usable] in the current war."
* During [[World War I]], the Entente frequently propagated lurid stories claiming that Germany and its allies were committing genocide in its occupied territories. They were, but nowhere near the level that they were accused of being, which ironically led to most dismissing the entire issue out of hand, and thus [[Crying Wolf|when the same accusation was made three decades later, not a lot of people believed it.]]
* As reported in [[Time Magazine]] in 1940, an American journalist, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130721030456/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,764628,00.html Eugene P. Lyle Jr.], wrote that by 1938 a defeated Germany would rise again to start [[World War II|a war of "monstrous proportions"]]. This was in 1918, ''two months'' before the end of WW1 (which caused everyone to forget about the article, according to the link). Clearly, this guy was one [[Genre Savvy]] propagandist.
** He wasn't alone in this prediction, either--the list of people who expected this to happen (especially at the end of [[World War I]] as the peace was negotiated) is sufficient and push it through this trope and into wondering how ''un''[[Genre Savvy]] you'd have to have been to think it really ''was'' going to be the War to End All Wars.
*** Among the most influential voices warning of conflict as a consequence of the peace treaties was the great economist [[wikipedia:Economic Consequences of the Peace|John Maynard Keynes]].
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* [[wikipedia:Pete Maravich|"Pistol" Pete Maravich,]] at age 25: "I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40." After a 10-year NBA career, Maravich collapsed and died of a heart attack on January 5, 1988 -- a little more than six months shy of his 41st birthday.
* During an interview, [[The Doors|Jim Morrison]] heard about the deaths of [[Jimi Hendrix]] and Janis Joplin. Turning to the interviewer, he held up his glass and said "You're drinking with number three." Not too long afterwards, he was gone.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20141102231706/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/101896-BP-Offshore-Oil-Drilling-Board-Game-Has-Unfortunate-Implications This board game.] Or maybe it's [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], depending on your sense of humor. (And yes, your rig could blow up in the game, for a penalty of one million dollars. I guess that one actually had the safeguards installed.)
* Once during the 50's, a Japanese girl called [[The Ojou|Michiko Shouda]] went through an arranged date with a promising novelist named Kimitake Hiraoka, but they didn't marry. She went on to marry none other but [[The White Prince|Crown Prince]], [[The Emperor|later emperor]] Akihito...and in [[The Seventies]], her ex-boyfriend of sorts Hiraoka (now known as [[Yukio Mishima]]) staged a coup to give Akihito's father [[The Emperor]] (Hirohito, properly known since his death as Showa, after the name of his reign) back his powers as the leader of the country, and committed [[Seppuku]] when it didn't work.
* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjf27-uY0Ss&feature=related this interview], David Foster Wallace talks about how, even though there have been hard times in his life, and he doesn't have a clear path or motivation going forward, it's not like he's going to kill himself or anything.
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