"When this started, we were looking at recognition of the significance of the events, but I don't think anyone originally talked about us having to make payments to families or any sort of settlements," Mr. Adair said.
Mr Bush, he points out, originally talked of finding $8 billion a year for "the armies of compassion".
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company had originally talked to some investors about raising as much as $10 billion, according to one pension fund manager.
News Corp's boss, Rupert Murdoch, had originally talked to Mr Yang about a becoming a "white knight", but then decided against a bidding war against a much richer opponent.
Mr. Greenberg, who has directed several Off Broadway shows as well as the recent national tour of "Guys and Dolls," said he originally talked to Disney about creating a version of the movie "Ratatouille" for the cruise line.
When Park originally talked to HuffPost, he said he was unaware of the limits and explained that he gave money in response to the torrent of fundraising appeals he received from being a known political donor.
Monmouth University -- which, like most other pollsters, found Trump ahead -- went back and recontacted 263 of the Republican voters it had originally talked to, finding evidence that both theories were true.
"Originally, talking was the only cellphone application," said Dan Hesse, chief executive of Sprint Nextel.
He was originally talking about satellite telephony, but it seems his predictions have come to pass, albeit using a few more wires.
