Anybody ever learn anything useful from a Ouija board?

[raccoon]

I can't say I ever did.

[Richardo]

1. I learned the word 'planchette'

That's about it.

[mitchum]

6. I really did laugh out loud

[bif]

2. I learned that I had to go to the bathroom

Seriously. I don't believe in that kind of stuff. But many years ago I was with some folks and the pointer (or whatever you call it) kept going back and forth to the letters B and M. It finally dawned on me that I had to take a dump. Embarrassing, but funny.

[old mark]

16. How do they KNOW this stuff????? nt

[TZ]

3. I learned about subliminal behavior

In that people are pushing the Oujia piece around to spell out things from their subconcious.

[Deep13]

4. I learned that cats make a lot of noise if they eat dry dog food.

When I was small, my sister, my uncle (then a teenager) and I were playing with one. He asked that if there was a spirit in the house, would it make a noise so we would know it. We were carefully listening when we suddenly heard a crunch-crunch-crunch sound.

[TZ]

5. !

:rofl:

[mitchum]

7. I learned that "Ouija" is like "Kleenex" or "Xerox"...

a specific type of talking board or spirit board

[Capn Sunshine]

8. I learned it's "RED" there

during a Ouija session during a stormy night in Houston we asked "what color is it there?"
The answer ---"Red"

[Iggo]

9. Only that my sister was moving it..

[jobycom]

10. Which of my friends were most susceptible to the power of suggestion.

That paid dividends when I was broke at lunch time. Or on a date. :)

[LeftinOH]

11. Remember / to / drink / your / Ovaltine /!/

[Orrex]

28. .

:thumbsup:

[arbusto_baboso]

12. That Catholic parents can really freak out over an inanimate piece of wood.

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. All I ever got from one was "I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm fucking dead".

To paraphrase the comedian regarding "seafaring" songs :)

[abq e streeter]

14. I don't believe in them one bit, but...

one did "tell" me and my friend sometime in '63 that Kennedy would not be re-elected, but that the next president would be a Democrat. I actually still remember how baffled we were as to what that meant.( and we repeated both questions more than once; I don't know why I remember that so clearly 47 years later, but I do)

[old mark]

15. I learned that I like to waste my money on

useless shit.

mark

[mcctatas]

17. I learned when I was going to lose my virginity, to whom and where

of course I never did end up on the golf course with ****** on my 17th birthday so I guess it wasn't THAT useful :shrug:

[Fleshdancer]

18. I learned that my friends are gullible and that I'm not a great speller.

oh, and I discovered that if you break out the Ouija board at a sleep over party, there will always be that one girl who cries.

[TZ]

20. +1

:rofl:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

23. Tell me more about these teenage girl slumber parties.

There's always a girl who cries? Seriously? Some kind of Christian conservative type? Just superstitious?

[Fleshdancer]

24. yes, that's basically how it starts...

the whole "talking to the dead" thing can really freak some people out if they choose to believe that it's actually happening. At least that's how I think the crying starts, but it always ends up with the entire group of girls consoling her and trying to convince her not to call her parents and leave. That's the part that always made me wonder if the drama was just for attention.

I remember at one of my parties the girl starts out crying because she's "freaked out", but then she kept rambling about her dead grandmother and suddenly everyone else morphed into little psychologists and acted as if that problem at that moment was the worst and most important problem in the history of problems.

The group dynamics at slumber parties are always weird. It's funny watching my daughter and her friends now as a parent and compare it to my experiences when I was young. There's always 2 girls that get in an argument. The group will separate those two and then talk to each girl individually to work things out. There's almost always one crier. That crier will most likely be that one person who threatens to go home. Usually there's someone who will object to whatever activity the rest of the group wants to do at any given moment. Every time.

on edit: just to clarify the age, the slumber parties I'm talking about are with preteens.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

25. Sounds like somebody could right a PhD thesis on the topic.

[Fleshdancer]

26. The conflict resolution aspect alone would be interesting to study

When I saw my daughter and her friends do this to the two girls that were arguing, it looked like a live performance of some odd after school special. It worked though and I didn't have to intervene. I was impressed and proud at how they handled it.

[mzteris]

32. sounded more like

senators . . .

:rofl:

[mzteris]

19. i did have a weird thing happen

when i was about 10 or so, my friends and i were asking questions about things we didn't know. like my grandmother's middle name (who'd died well before i was born) - anyway - the name came out as "narcissa" - which is weird cause that'd be a weird name and none of us knew what a narcissa WAS much less how to spell it... so i forgot about it until some week or so later one of the girls asked if i ever found out what my grandmother's middle name was... so i asked my mom.

Her name was NASIRAH (some Bible name) - so - not exact but kinda close so kinda weird. . . I guess Ouija can't spell very well. :rofl:

[barb162]

21. nope n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

22. I learned what Abraham Lincoln's been up to in heaven.

Two words.

Dolly Madison.

[rcrush]

27. That you can sell anything

[Orrex]

29. I learned that Amy was wearing a blue bra

[TZ]

33. Really.

So Dr. Strange used to go by the name Amy huh? :hide:

[Orrex]

34. No, but he was so impressed that he started wearing a bra after that Ouija session

[surrealAmerican]

30. I learned which of my friends would cheat.

That comes in handy if you play other games where it's harder to tell.

[ThoughtCriminal]

31. prkvgsezklw

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