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jokergirl
2008-Nov-07, 08:13 AM
I picked up a story in the Livejournal community Customers_suck that would fit very well on the blog:

http://community.livejournal.com/customers_suck/26559796.html


Sylvia Browne called me a WHAT???
by Bird on a Wing
So, I wandered up to a woman poking around in the New Age section and did the standard Friendly Store Girl routine. She was holding this book (http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Astrology-Through-a-Psychics-Eyes-Sylvia-Browne/9781561707201-item.html?ref=Search+Books%3a+%2527astrology+psych ic+browne%2527&sterm=astrology+psychic+browne+-+Books), and asked me what my sign was.

I don't really beleive in horoscopes, but I don't mind sitting still for the occasional fortune-telling New Age enthusiast in the bookstore. Results have ranged from thought-provoking to downright hilarious. So I told her I'm a Virgo and stood there patiently while she flipped through the book...

...punchline omitted...


Unpleasant as this incident was, however, I've got to admit that I'm amused by the notion that having one's promiscuity spelled out in the heavens would give an entirely new meaning to the term "porn star"... and I'll bet that woman was a Taurus. Because...

...yup, you guessed it. She was entirely full of bull.

The comment threads are sadly appaling though. People actually discussing astrology instead of outright pointing and laughing.


;)

LotusExcelle
2008-Nov-07, 12:25 PM
Sylvia Browne is a dangerously inept charlatan. I mean really - she isn't even GOOD at flat out lying to people. Oh well.

tdvance
2008-Nov-07, 06:09 PM
You don't have to be good--if a person wants to believe in something, or more often, somebody, they will regardless of contradictory info available all around them. Perhaps it's a survival trait to cause non-alphas to follow the leader even when things don't look so good.