Psychotic – Excuse Me, I Mean Psychic – Update
24 April 2006 by Eve
Following in the footsteps of stardust1954’s “ghostly” lead, I looked up something I remembered seeing a preview for on TV just recently.
It appears that everyone’s favorite gold-digging harpy – excuse me, sensitive psychic – Sylvia Browne is on the prowl again on her favorite game preserve – excuse me, TV program – the Montel Williams Show, on Wednesday 04/26/06’s upcoming episode. This is what these suckers – excuse me, guests – want to find out from Ms. Browne:
“Candice: Wants to know about her fiancé’s death
Ricky: Believes his house may be haunted and wants to know why
Ken: Says that his mother was trying to tell him something when she was on her deathbed
Leila: Wants to know the significance of her dreams
Nilsa: Wants to know who is haunting her family
Cheryl: Says she is able to see into the future”
I feel real empathy for Candice and Ken, whose situations involve the death of a loved one and an ensuing mystery; it’s hard to find closure when you don’t really know what happened to your fiancé (he was shot outside an ATM; police haven’t found the murderer) or what family secret your mother might have wanted to tell you before she died. But I would never appeal to a psychic to find these things out; how on earth would you ever be able to prove what she said, especially if the murder case remains closed and no one in the family knows or admits to what your mother may have known? You could spend the rest of your life hoping that the answers you were given were real, a false comfort at best.
I’d rather just face the fact that I don’t have those answers – but that’s just me, I guess.
24 April 2006, on 6:49 pm
how on earth would you ever be able to prove what she said, especially if the murder case remains closed and no one in the family knows or admits to what your mother may have known? You could spend the rest of your life hoping that the answers you were given were real, a false comfort at best.
It’s the same thing as people wanting to see ghosts, etc. They will choose to believe what this goofball Sylvia Browne tells them just to have this sense of closure, even if it is false. Just like people like to hear that their loved ones are “in a better place”…it is a way of coping. It’s easier for most people to believe in fantasy than accept reality.
24 April 2006, on 6:59 pm
I’ve discussed this idiot in my blog several times.
24 April 2006, on 7:00 pm
*sigh* Too true, star – but vultures like Browne really get under my skin. She’ll fleece the people who are really hurting right along with the rather silly ones who want to know who’s “haunting” their house or what to do with their own “powers.”
Even with everything James Randi has done to publicly debunk her, not to mention her own trip-ups – people still believe in her!
24 April 2006, on 7:04 pm
Thanks for the link, RR.
24 April 2006, on 7:16 pm
Holy shit does this place update quickly nowadays.
And psychics can kiss my ass.
24 April 2006, on 7:19 pm
Marcus, do you think any of them predicted you’d say that?
24 April 2006, on 7:55 pm
The absolute number one way to increase a site’s popularity, Marcus: publish often. I think we’re doing just great in that category. Long live GifS!
24 April 2006, on 7:57 pm
I don’t watch TV, so I don’t know this woman, but she looks like a succubus from hell.
24 April 2006, on 7:58 pm
And that’s all you need to know about her, Sean, trust us…
24 April 2006, on 8:25 pm
Marcus, you always crack me up and make me LOL.
24 April 2006, on 8:27 pm
I don’t watch TV, so I don’t know this woman, but she looks like a succubus from hell.
Sean – LOLOL! I was trying to find an adjective to describe her and that sums it up. LOL!
24 April 2006, on 8:50 pm
Here’s another famous Sylvia Browne trip-up: Read about how she failed to predict her own crimial conviction:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_6_28/ai_n6361823
Her excuse: “I am not psychic about myself.”
24 April 2006, on 9:06 pm
Wow. She was once involved in fraud?
I mean, who am I kidding, she’s still involved in fraud. She’s just found a type of fraud she can’t be prosecuted for!
24 April 2006, on 9:34 pm
The psychics have never called me to let me know what was up so I guess they must know I do not believe in them. Proof enough that they are psychic.
Actually randi.org has a disecting of John Edwards this week and it is pretty good.
The psychics always claim that they can not tell the lottery numbers or race results because their powers are not to be abused by monetary gains. But then turn around and charge their clients (marks) for the service. Syvia Browne is just the worst of all and seemingly very popular. I read somewhere that she charges $750 for a 1 hour telephone consultation. And people pay her.
24 April 2006, on 9:52 pm
I once called up a psychic business in my home town and said “hello” then went silent. The woman on the other end said “hello?” a few times while I replied “yup” before I finally said, “I hope you got all that” and hung-up.
I pranked them a few times after that before it got boring. They had little sense of humor.
Tarot readers in the local coffee shop were always more fun to torment.
24 April 2006, on 9:54 pm
One day I hope to read the following headline:
“Roof collapses at convention hall during psychic fair.”
25 April 2006, on 2:00 am
Marcus said: “Holy shit does this place update quickly nowadays.”
I’d like to think it’s because there are so many of us now!!!
25 April 2006, on 2:07 am
That’s exactly why, KR. We invited you on so we could be unstoppable. You know that, right?
I am looking forward to seeing us grow even more. Hey, kids, you wanna blog for GifS? Just write great comments on a consistent basis and we might just invite you aboard. And we love you all regardless! Mwah!
25 April 2006, on 2:14 am
LOL, thanks man!!!
25 April 2006, on 6:19 am
“I don’t watch TV, so I don’t know this woman, but she looks like a succubus from hell. ”
She’s on Montel a lot. I remember one time this clearly distraught man stood up asking her about the whereabouts of his young daughter’s body. Or if she was in indeed dead.
Succubus tells him that she is dead and to not to bother looking for the body because it won’t bring her back.
She, like all other ass sucking charalatans are complete and total assholes. That anyone would rape the grief and memories of grieving people is outrageous. John Edwards, Succubus, every televangelist – all succubi. (yes, I know what the word succbus means)
25 April 2006, on 11:16 am
She, like all other ass sucking charalatans are complete and total assholes. That anyone would rape the grief and memories of grieving people is outrageous.
Exactly. Preying on the emotionally frail and grieving in order to make a buck is disgusting.
25 April 2006, on 1:08 pm
I once called up a psychic business in my home town and said “hello” then went silent. The woman on the other end said “hello?” a few times while I replied “yup” before I finally said, “I hope you got all that” and hung-up.
What is funny is to go to one in person and sit there like a mute and not say anything and when they ask questions just say “why don’t you tell me, you’re the psychic?” That is one way of getting booted out of a psychic’s booth or shop though.
25 April 2006, on 1:24 pm
She still doesn’t want Randi’s million. I wonder what is holding her back.
25 April 2006, on 2:35 pm
“I wonder what is holding her back.”
I hear her now-
“I see in my own future… crushing humiliation and loss of revenue when my faithful minions see me for a fraud!”
25 April 2006, on 3:22 pm
Hey, I think we’ve found John Edwards’ mom!
I recall a MadTV sketch, where Stephanie Weir (the pleasant little old lady character) calls Madame Cleo. Starts asking her about 9/11. “Didja know something bad was about to happen, on 9/10? You didn’t? Why not?”
Y’all remember that Madame Cleo fiasco? Shut down for fraud. Employees copped to BS’ing the call-in customers. Keep ‘em on the line.
25 April 2006, on 5:30 pm
Marcus: “I see in my own future… crushing humiliation and loss of revenue when my faithful minions see me for a fraud!”
Now see, that’s just what I mean; what’s it going to take for them to realize this? How long are they going to be able to continue justifying, rationalizing, and otherwise twisting themselves into pretzels explaining her many inconsistencies and failures?
Just a rhetorical question; I don’t really expect an answer. “None so blind as he who will not see…”
26 April 2006, on 1:44 pm
I really hope that Ms. Brown does have some kind of paranormal ability because she certainly isn’t going anywhere on her good looks. Her face looks like a busted sofa.
27 April 2006, on 10:04 am
Brooklyn Boy, her paranormal ability is what is holding her face together. Otherwise it would collapse.