"I must be psychic!"

[downfader]

..yeahhhhh rightttt!

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8915646.Henfield_artist__predicted__Japanese_quake/

 

[PaulB]

I must be psychic too. A couple of weeks ago we were watching the start of University Challenge, our favourite programme which we use as a competition between the two of us (me and Mrs. PaulB). I said, during the introduction of the two teams, in my jokey way of getting a head-start, 'George Orwell' just messing about and then came the first question. It began, 'Which author was born in 1903.....' and we knew what was coming. No one should take anything like that as a sign they're psychic though. The OPPOSITE should be more significant; if you NEVER pre-guess the answer to the questions coming your way, considering all the thousands of episodes of pre-empting you're going to do, THAT would be truly spooky.

 

[Piemaster]

'Artist, 44'
44 ?? surely a misprint? Or shes nabbed a painting from one of her primary school kids and is claiming its hers

 

[Arch]

Some of the comments are funny - "I predicted the Queen Mother would die, and she did...."

 

[downfader]

Some of the comments are funny - "I predicted the Queen Mother would die, and she did...."

And he was arrested for his subsequent attempts.

 

[661-Pete]

Ah well - the world will end next year, so why worry?

 

[soulful dog]

'Artist, 44'
44 ?? surely a misprint? Or shes nabbed a painting from one of her primary school kids and is claiming its hers

And cheers to Arch, I didn't read the comments first time round, they are far more entertaining than the article!

 

[colly]

When I was 10 my granny visited a fortune teller at the seaside. She was told she was going to die and astonishingly enough 78 years later she did.

Amazing huh? NOW tell me there is nothing in it !!!!!

 

[ColinJ]

When I was 10 my granny visited a fortune teller at the seaside. She was told she was going to die and astonishingly enough 78 years later she did.

Amazing huh? NOW tell me there is nothing in it !!!!!

I think that is pretty amazing - you definitely don't look over 88 years old!

Or was she 10 when she was told she was going to die ...

 

[colly]

No the same fortune teller told me I would live to be 198.

 

[Chris S]

Why don't people who predict disasters tell anyone before it happens?

 

[benb]

Why don't people who predict disasters tell anyone before it happens?

Yes, quite.

They only ever make rather vague predictions which aren't specific enough before the event.
Then afterwards, they can twist their prediction to suit the event(s) and claim a hit.

 

[Fnaar]

A fortune teller once told me that I would be killed by a falling ceiling. What did she kn-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!

 

[goo_mason]

Bunch of girls in my class at High School went to see a 'psychic' who told one of them to be nice to her Mum as "she didn't have long to live." Poor girl was utterly distraught at the time and really messed up for a long time afterwards.

That was in the mid-80s. Her Mum's still hale & hearty and running around a quarter of a century later.

 

[Dave Davenport]

I must be psychic too. A couple of weeks ago we were watching the start of University Challenge, our favourite programme which we use as a competition between the two of us (me and Mrs. PaulB). I said, during the introduction of the two teams, in my jokey way of getting a head-start, 'George Orwell' just messing about and then came the first question. It began, 'Which author was born in 1903.....' and we knew what was coming. No one should take anything like that as a sign they're psychic though. The OPPOSITE should be more significant; if you NEVER pre-guess the answer to the questions coming your way, considering all the thousands of episodes of pre-empting you're going to do, THAT would be truly spooky.

Me & Mrs D do the same re. UC. Since she got one right jumping in when Paxo had barely opened his mouth 'Pickwick Papers!' has been our default answer to any question we haven't got a clue about.