Things take a while to get through the pipeline of production, and what looks like a trend turns out to be a coincidence.
They reconstituted their old skit predicting the future, donning space-suit collars to proclaim that someday "YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will merge into one super-time-wasting Web site called 'youtwitface.' " (The Twitter trend turns out to be for comedians what the Cabbage Patch doll was in the 1980s: a huge fad that is inherently laughable).
Sometimes what looks like a trend turns out to be a fad.
Even if these trends turn out to have been short-lived, and Italy's fiscal problems increase the market's correlations again, there's still a silver lining to this market, value-oriented investors say.
A second trend has turned out to be bigger than Doan imagined.
Writing in the Lancashire Telegraph, Mr Straw, who is standing down as an MP at the next general election in 2015, said the policy was based on predictions about future trends which turned out to be wrong.
Its placement front and centre of her forehead was an early indication of a new hat trend – as it turned out all the most accomplished hat wearers (including Princess Beatrice and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson) chose to style their headgear in this way.
Fashion is cyclical, but a new trend was beginning that turned out to be a game-changer.
Lush! – so that it has done a full personality switch from niche and weird to extremely BuzzFeed, a bit like salted caramel did, and yeah it's good, but in five years we will look back on this moment in the lifecycle of chips-dipped-in-dairy and realise that actually it was a fleeting trend that, in hindsight, turned out to be very embarrassing, same way we'll look at ripped jeans in 2023.
And there's the arrogant, irascible 19th-century polymath Elliott Coues, who "remained firm in his belief that the path to ornithological wisdom issued from the muzzle of a shotgun," resisting — futilely, as it turned out — the trend toward identification by sight in the field.
