Uri Geller MIGHT be real when he's not caught cheating!
Dan Pressnell
the bank and the bank was robbed?
He hired this guy who's name was Philo Sandeen, who said he was an
Indian scout, and he paid him some money to track the robbers with him.
Well, they went out into the wilderness on the trail of the bank
robbers. After a while, Maverick started getting suspicious, and he
accused Philo of leading him on a wild goose chase, after Philo threw
some grass into the air and watched it fall and turned rocks over to
look at the underside of them. Philo then pointed at the ground and
said, "tracks."
Maverick looked at them, and said, "Those are OUR tracks. You've been
leading us in circles. I want my money back!"
Philo said, "Is that any way to treat me after I saved you from
Indians?"
Maverick said, "There are no Indians around here."
Philo said, "There COULD have been Indians!"
Dan
Peter Duffie
"caught" cheating.
Your subject heading suggests you know of several.
Peter Duffie
Dan Pressnell <dpre...@ns.vvm.com> wrote in message
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Lou Minatti™
>
> Please give details of one "unambigious" occassion where Geller has been
> "caught" cheating.
I can think of a hilarious episode of The Tonight Show that millions of
people saw. He COULDN'T cheat so he couldn't perform.
--
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Try explaining Ed Wollman to a kid.
Dan Pressnell
>
> Please give details of one "unambigious" occassion where Geller has been
> "caught" cheating.
I can't!
He's a real psychic!
Welcome to the world of the paranormal, bubba!
Dan
el...@no.spam
Lou Minatti <loumi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Please give details of one "unambigious" occassion where Geller has been
>> "caught" cheating.
>I can think of a hilarious episode of The Tonight Show that millions of
>people saw. He COULDN'T cheat so he couldn't perform.
That one is definately hilarious. Uri was got so flustered when his
cheating was defeated.
Cathy Credulous
<el...@no.spam> wrote in message news:s31221...@news.supernews.com...
I remember watching that episode and also remember the pity I felt for Uri.
I recognize now that the pity was misplaced because a con artist can always
find more suckers. There seems to be a never ending supply of suckers for
any con; be it for psychic powers, astrology, or channelling some long dead
nobody.
--
Cathy
el...@no.spam
Cathy Credulous <disinf...@disinfo.net> wrote:
>I remember watching that episode and also remember the pity I felt for Uri.
>I recognize now that the pity was misplaced because a con artist can always
>find more suckers. There seems to be a never ending supply of suckers for
>any con; be it for psychic powers, astrology, or channelling some long dead
>nobody.
I felt no pity at all. A crook getting caught deserves none.
Dan Pressnell
I wanted to see more.
Dan
PZ Myers
<dpre...@ns.vvm.com> wrote:
Isn't it always so much fun to watch the frauds squirm?
Dan Pressnell
> >I wanted to see more.
> >
>
> Isn't it always so much fun to watch the frauds squirm?
Yeah, and it's also fun to see the believers come up with their stupid
excuses after it's happened. Like this one:
"Well, the OTHER times, he's probably got real psychic powers!"
Dan
Sherilyn
"Peter Duffie" <psy...@tesco.com> wrote:
> Please give details of one "unambigious" occassion where Geller has
been
> "caught" cheating.
There's a reproduction of an article from the Jan 5, 1971 Jerusalem
Post in which Geller was found by the court to have used sleight-of-
hand.
http://www.manx2.demon.co.uk/geller/chron.htm
Here's an account of a failed attempt at misdirection by Geller in an
interview he gave to Simon Jones about four years ago. Similar
misdirection is used in the many successful duplications of Geller's
tricks. There are numerous accounts of how to duplicate Geller's
famous "keys and spoons " tricks, and the technique is quite easy for
any moderately dextrous person to learn and practise on their friends
and family.
'At this point Geller says, "there's one thing I don't want to go
into". He then picks up my dictaphone and starts playing with the
buttons. Alarmed by this manoeuvre, I leap out of my seat (the
dictaphone was hidden from my view by Geller's side). I quickly help
him to find the stop-button, and he examines the machine very carefully
to ensure that it cannot restart. Reluctantly I let him hold on to the
recorder, and sit back down again.
'I am now trying to listen to what Geller is saying, as well as for any
sounds of rewinding or other tampering of the dictaphone. None are
forthcoming, but I cannot relax while he is holding it. My concern is
to become justified minutes later. He tells me that my line of
questioning is too sceptical for his liking. I shift uneasily in my
chair, but try to hold Geller's penetrating (and by now, rather fierce)
gaze.
'With the tape stopped, Geller proceeds to go into the various claims
made about him in books, including James Randi's The Truth about Uri
Geller, and Victor Stenger's Physics and Psychics. Quoting the alleged
instances of libel in these books, he rants on about how these comments
have hurt him, damaged his reputation, etc. However, Geller's
litigation has never required him to demonstrate that his "powers" are
genuine, and he appears to be unwilling to legally challenge the
accusations that he uses simple trickery.
'After getting this off his chest, Geller smiles and tells me that we
can continue. However, he has just performed an outrageous breach of
interview protocol under my very nose, which has me leaping to my feet
again in protest. Below my line of sight, Geller has been secretly and
(in my opinion) deliberately rewinding the tape. He has just pressed
the "record" button, which threatens to wipe out a large chunk of the
interview, when I grab hold of one side of the dictaphone, and tell him
firmly that I will deal with it. For a few seconds there is a bizarre
tug-of-war between Geller and myself, over who will gain control of the
machine. Clearly, Geller is trying to stop me from uncovering his
blatant act of attempted sabotage. Finally, I pull the dictaphone from
his grasp, and find to my disgust that he has indeed wound the tape
back a great deal (why couldn't he psychically wipe my tape? After all,
he claims in his press release that he has wiped computer tapes with
his mind). Geller is looking very fierce now and, with my heart
pounding almost audibly, I do my best to recover some semblance of
normality to the proceedings. '
--
Sherilyn
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Lucianarchy
>
> Here's an account of a failed attempt at misdirection by Geller in an
> interview he gave to Simon Jones about four years ago.
<snip interesting, but worthless anecdote>
Were there any witnessess to this, apart from Jones and Geller?