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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 10:58 AM
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Poll question: Who Is The Biggest Fraud?
Edited on Fri Oct-03-03 11:03 AM by arwalden
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Champion Jack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 10:59 AM
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1. Where's Dr. Phil?
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:02 AM
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2. That's An Excellent Suggestion...
... but he pretty much deserves a category all his own.

-- Allen
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Drifter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:14 AM
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5. They are all ...
FRAUDS.

Anyone who claims super natural powers would be using those powers to enrich themselves (and I don't mean by conning people into giving up their money to hear this crap). That racket has been going on sionce the dawn of time.

Why aren't these people winning lotteries, living to be the oldest people on earth, discovering things yet to be discovered, etc.

Put them all in jail for failing to connect the dots regarding 9/11.

Cheers
Drifter
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GainesT1958 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:10 AM
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3. I voted for Uri--though ALL of the above deserve STRONG consideration!
I tried to bend a fork the other day; thought about it really hard, and...VOILA! I bent it...of course, it WAS 100% aluminum content--just like the ones Uri used!:eyes:

B-)
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Brucey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:12 AM
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4. Uri was bad,
but Edward is a bigger fraud today; has a bigger following and cashes in on people's miseries, the worst fraud of all.
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Character Assassin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:14 AM
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6. I know I'll never defraud this way again....

But I keep holdin' on...
Dial 1-900-SUCKERS now!
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:35 AM
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7. Why isn't W * on the list?
Surely he is the greatest fraud of all times!!
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:37 AM
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8. Well... yes... that's true. But In A Different Sub-Category...
Bush would fall into the political-frauds.
Dr. Phil would fall into the self-help frauds.

The rest of these are the paranormal-psychic frauds.

-- Allen
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:37 AM
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9. I thought the same thing!
But I realized that W would get 106% of the vote. Don't ask how it can be more than 100%, but rest assured it would be 106%! :D

WHo's John Edward?
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:41 AM
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10. Uri has been proven to be a fraud, right?
John Edward is creepy on TV. How does he do it?
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elcondor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 12:15 PM
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13. Why he's so creepy, I don't know but
HOW he defrauds people: While the audience is waiting outside before the show tapes, producers disguised as fellow audience members chat people up. They then type everything up on color-coded cards for Edwards to memorize. The color on the card corresponds to colored tape on the audience member's seat. That's why he starts off with "there's someone in this area who knows someone with the name beginning with "p." It's also why he frequently "gets his signals crossed." (He tells the story of someone else sitting nearby.) (You would think that the "spirit" would point him directly to it's family members or say "hey buddy, wrong person.")

Frankly all of these people make me sick. They take people in a very vunerable situation and take advantage of it by using cheap parlor tricks. I don't blame the audience too much, because of their fragile emotional state. (Family members passing on, and all that.)
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:42 AM
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11. Miss Cleo!
Hands down!
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jono Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:51 AM
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12. Miss Cleo is the biggest fraud,
but the Pet Psychic is the most entertaining.
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 12:18 PM
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14. Did anyone see that South Park episode making fun of John Edward
totally fucking hilarious.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 12:23 PM
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15. The "Biggest Douche In The Universe"
... funniest episode I've ever seen!

They want me to acknowledge someone who's sad.
It was a man who died.
There was a lot of sadness around the death.
They want me to acknowledge that you did things together.
They want me to acknowledge that when you did things together, there was other stuff.
Don't worry about the money. Does this make sense to you?
I'm getting "November". Is November significant to anyone? Anyone? A birthday, anniversary, funeral, THANKSGIVING? Anyone?
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