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Article #5333Fortune tellers [Was: Let's debate parapsychology ... ]
From: Ian Staples
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 00:00
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John Atkinson <103256.1510@compuserve.com> writes: [much deleted] >Professional psychics claim to be able to produce phenomena at will and >to predict the future with varying claims of accuracy. How can they do this? [...] This brought to mind a recent news snippet in _The Cairns Post_: A Marlin Coast bloke can't understand why his wife goes to have her fortune told in January each year. According to his reasoning, one annual forecast should be pretty much the same as the previous one, just one year shorter. :-) (CP 27 Jan 96) Cheers, Ian S. -- Ian Staples E-mail : I.Staples@dpi.qld.gov.au c/- P.O. Box 1054 MAREEBA Phone : +61 (0)70 928 555 Home 924 847 Queensland Australia 4880 Fax : +61 (0)70 923 593 " " "
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f44bc,25c10f1dbe9405d X-Google-Attributes: gidf44bc,public X-Google-Thread: 1083c4,896b077d8b558f87,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1083c4,public From: staplei@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au (Ian Staples) Subject: Fortune tellers [Was: Let's debate parapsychology ... ] Date: 1996/01/27 Message-ID: <DLu7MK.4IK@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au> X-Deja-AN: 136692386 references: <960123221112_103256.1510_IHH97-1@CompuServe.COM> organization: Qld Department of Primary Industries newsgroups: sci.skeptic,aus.general