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Old 29-07-2014, 01:42 PM
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Thumbs up James Randi in Brisbane

My ticket is booked.
I'm joining up with the wonderful folk from Brisbanes Skeptics in the Pub for this one.

http://www.eventopia.co/event/An-Eve...ndi/256851#_=_

Think Inc. is proud to announce that this December, The Amazing Randi will be bringing his unique superheroic brand of sceptic justice to Australia!

Magician James Randi (known as ‘The Amazing Randi’) has spent the bulk of his career debunking the claims of self-proclaimed psychics and paranormalists. Randi has an international reputation as a magician and escape artist, but he is perhaps best known as the world’s most tireless investigator and de-mystifier of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.

The event is run as the first and exclusive public screening of Randi’s new biographical documentary, ‘An Honest Liar’ followed by a fireside chat and Q&A session to hear the tales of this (de)mystifying 86-year-old.

Those attending the event will have a unique opportunity to learn more about the wonderful world of magic and skepticism in an entertaining light with this mastermind. With a cult following, An evening with James Randi will be another sold-out Think Inc. event.

The Amazing Randi has pursued ‘psychic’ spoon benders, exposed the dirty tricks of faith healers, investigated homeopathic water ‘with a memory,’ and generally been a thorn in the sides of those who try to pull the wool over the public’s eyes in the name of the supernatural. Randi is also starring in his own biographical documentary 'An Honest Liar,' which will be screened alongside his fireside chat across four Australian cities.

He has received numerous awards and recognitions, including a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship (also known as the 'MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant') in 1986. He’s the author of numerous books, including Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions (1982), The Truth About Uri Geller (1982), The Faith Healers (1987), and An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (1995).

In 1996, the James Randi Education Foundation was established to further Randi’s work. Randi’s long-standing challenge to psychics now stands as a $1,000,000 prize administered by the Foundation. It remains unclaimed.
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Old 29-07-2014, 02:22 PM
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Think I'd rather go and see Fiona Horne and get a tarot reading from her.
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Old 29-07-2014, 02:22 PM
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JJJ Do you remember the "Lanky Yank" Don Lane blowing his cool over I think Doris Stokes looking for some missing person, and Randy just looked at Lane as if he was a Luner Tick.
BTW Doris Stokes never found anything,but Lane never apologised for his abominable behavour.
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Old 29-07-2014, 02:25 PM
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Think I'd rather go and see Fiona Horne and get a tarot reading from her.
Why don't you ask her to take up the challenge for the $100,000 then if she is so good.
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PS non of your reading of my palm has come true so far.
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Old 29-07-2014, 02:34 PM
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Why don't you ask her to take up the challenge for the $100,000 then if she is so good.
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PS non of your reading of my palm has come true so far.
Yes Ron-your still alive! consider yourself lucky!

Hope you make another year-was crook last week and could not get down to astrofest,would like to look through that 16 inch dob again
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Old 29-07-2014, 02:42 PM
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Yes Ron-your still alive! consider yourself lucky!





Hope you make another year-was crook last week and could not get down to astrofest,would like to look through that 16 inch dob again
That's probably the only thing your palm reading might have remotely got right Chris, I Might live to a ripe old age, but then I might not.
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Old 29-07-2014, 02:43 PM
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Big fan of James Randi, but Fiona Horne is much better looking
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Old 29-07-2014, 03:57 PM
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JJJ Do you remember the "Lanky Yank" Don Lane blowing his cool over I think Doris Stokes looking for some missing person, and Randy just looked at Lane as if he was a Luner Tick.
BTW Doris Stokes never found anything,but Lane never apologised for his abominable behavour.
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i saw that ron.............. lane was apoplectic!
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