Did anyone ever think that the Olympics in Beijing was going to be a joyride?
And did anyone try to talk them out of what they were going to say?
And did anyone else rewind this part so everyone could joyfully weep all over again?
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Never did anyone mention taxes as a reason to forgo an investment opportunity that I offered.
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At no time did anyone stop to consider that there might be others on board.
Did anyone at the commission notice the sprouting array of new-tech rivals to the old phone companies?
Did anyone even come close to anticipating the economic fallout from broadband and now the pending wireless broadband revolution?
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Did anyone at Apple try scrolling on the Nexus 7, because all the UI furniture they laughed at scrolls away as well.
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Did anyone at Penn State understand what they were dealing with, either?
It sounds unfathomable now, but did anyone envision online juggernauts like MySpace and Digg falling into irrelevancy after short runs at the top?
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Vice-President Joseph Biden, Secretary Gates, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton followed him, as did anyone else who could fit into the office.
Nobody held tailgate parties to celebrate the income tax centenary nor did anyone lip sync the National Anthem on its behalf.
Rarely did anyone dig further, even if they were so inclined.
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Lesson: Find a slow-evolving service -- did anyone say insurance?
Little did anyone know what consequence this decision might have.
Nor did anyone seem to care that a new hire could regularly expect to have his viewing of Saturday Night Live disrupted by an emergency call from the office.
Little did anyone expect that in less than four years, iPhone apps would be downloaded more than 10 billion times while more than 200 million iPhones and iPads would sell worldwide.
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Did anyone play on the Sega Master System?
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No one knows who the next president will be (did anyone even think Gingrich would be leading in the polls a month ago) and any future president will have to get his or her agenda through Congress.
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Neither did anyone else in the office.
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Did anyone send a message to Haiti?
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Did anyone in Britain really need Stephen Byers, the trade and industry secretary, to remind them, as he has just done at yet another relaunch of the Britain in Europe campaign, that millions of jobs depend on Britain's access to the mainland?
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