I'd like to raise to attention something that the audience of this site may find interesting.

http://www.cracked.com/article_1914.....events_p2.html

Scroll down to #2.

That's right. Our fandom was predicted by, possibly the greatest comedy show ever to exist, Monthy Python's flying circus. I'll let you draw whatever conclusions from that fact that you please, but I personally find this to be an amusing, yet interesting revelation.