I just saw BBC's HardTalk show, where Uri Geller was interviewed. I got the impression he is much more delusional than a con, but one thing got me interested. In the end he 'telepathically' reproduced the drawing Tim Sebastian (the host) had previoulsy done and hid in his pocket. The drawing was a triangle with a sphere on top (a poor attempt to draw the Eiffel tower). Uri got it right, and stressed out that the dimension of the base was exactly right.
This got me interested, as it may be relevant to the specific trick he is doing. Is he drawing on a paper that was under the one used by the host, and so following the lines the pen may heve left? Or does he just peek, and the distance thing is an irrelevant gimmik?
Could anyone explain the trick without revealing sacred secrets of the trade (or at least advise a book on the subject)? Thanks, Ludi
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On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:25:11 GMT, skep...@efn.org (Garrison L. Hilliard) wrote:
> No; Uri Geller is a lying con guy who was all the rage amongst the > wanna-believers in the early '70's until he made the mistake > of appearing on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show". >... > As a result, Geller's bit on the show > was a fiasco, exposing him as a fraud to the millions of
If only it was that easy...
Geller is like a cockroach. Just when you think you've squashed him, he scuttles away again. Geller bombed disastrously both before and since the Carson show, but he would always just bluster about how the vibrations weren't right, or the negative skeptical energy was jamming his radar or somesuch.
The thing is, people continue to believe that crap. He did indeed move on to greener pickings in the UK, but there are still quite a few people here who are convinced he's the real deal. I've met a few, including one at the Magic castle. My psychic prediction is that he will eventually move back here (or perhaps to some other country) when things get too difficult in the UK. By that time, very few people will even remember *Carson,* let alone Geller, and he can bamboozle a whole new generation
(teenager looking through the "oldies" section of the record shop: "hey, lookit this. Paul McCartney used to be in a band. It was called Wings.").
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On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 05:38:30 GMT, skep...@efn.org wrote:
>I just saw BBC's HardTalk show, where Uri Geller was interviewed. >I got the impression he is much more delusional than a con, but one thing >got me interested.
No; Uri Geller is a lying con guy who was all the rage amongst the wanna-believers in the early '70's until he made the mistake of appearing on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show". Carson, a trained magician and skeptic, took every care to make sure that Geller was not allowed anywhere near the props for that night's appearance. As a result, Geller's bit on the show was a fiasco, exposing him as a fraud to the millions of folks who nightly tuned into "The Tonight Show" and causing Geller to move his little con biz
back across the Atlantic (where folks didn't watch Johnny Carson).
A still from the Geller non-performance on that "Tonight Show" can be found on my page at http://www.efn.org/~garrison
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:28:32 GMT, skep...@efn.org (Dave Palmer) wrote: >> No; Uri Geller is a lying con guy who was all the rage amongst the >> wanna-believers in the early '70's until he made the mistake >> of appearing on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show". >>... >> As a result, Geller's bit on the show >> was a fiasco, exposing him as a fraud to the millions of
>If only it was that easy...
>Geller is like a cockroach. Just when you think you've squashed him, he >scuttles away again. Geller bombed disastrously both before and since the >Carson show, but he would always just bluster about how the vibrations >weren't right, or the negative skeptical energy was jamming his radar or >somesuch. >*************** Regards, Dave Palmer <
Geller made a trip to Oz in the early 90s, trying to recapture his successes of the 1970s. He was accompanied by a dingbat named Riley G who used to infest these lists with his fanciful claims about solving crimes. Geller cancelled his tour half-way through, claiming someone back home was ill . Curiously, only a few months earlier, Erich von Daniken had also attempted a come-back tour here and he too had to cancel, very early in the tour, because someone back home was ill. By some remarkable coincidences, both sets of people at home fell ill at a time when attendances at their respective meetings were considerably lower than expected.
This caused some curmudgeonly antipodean Skeptic magazine editor to chortle in an ill-mannered way about there being nothing quite so "ex" as an ex miracle worker.
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