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Old 22-10-2020, 10:21 AM
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James Randi, magician and stage artist devoted to debunking the paranormal dies at 92

James Randi, magician and stage artist devoted to debunking the paranormal, dies at 92

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Old 22-10-2020, 10:31 AM
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Most memorable for me was when he appeared on the Don Lane Show back in the mid/late 70's.
This was live TV.
He started to debunk Doris Stokes when Don got so upset with him that he got up, pushed all the bent 'Uri Gellar' spoons off the table and told James to p.o...

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Old 22-10-2020, 10:38 AM
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Ah yeah I remember him.....92 he did good...and that dooshbag giving him the finger.
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Old 22-10-2020, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Adam Higginbotham, New York Times, 2014
When he was still a young man appearing in Toronto nightclubs and pretending to predict the future, Randall Zwinge created what he hoped would be his greatest trick. Each night before he went to bed, he wrote the date on the back of a business card along with the words “I, Randall Zwinge, will die today.” Then he signed it and placed it in his wallet. That way, if he were knocked down in the street or killed by a freak accident, whoever went through his effects would discover the most shocking prophecy he ever made. Zwinge kept at it for years. Each night, he tore up one card and wrote out a new one for the next day. But nothing fatal befell him; in the end, having wasted hundreds of business cards, he gave up in frustration. “I never got lucky,” he told me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/m...ing-randi.html
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