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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (5 Viewers)

Aw man. James Randi was a big influence when I was hitting middle school and was trying to figure out the world.

I remember seeing him show up some "psychic" phony on TV back in the early 80s ... maybe on That's Incredible or Real People? Some show like that.

 
I remember seeing (Randi) show up some "psychic" phony on TV back in the early 80s ... maybe on That's Incredible or Real People? Some show like that.
This television appearance on What's My Line? is one I definitely remember:

Randi tests James Hydrick's psychic claim (extended version) - part 1 of 2

Randi tests James Hydrick's psychic claim (extended version) - part 2 of 2

TL:DW -- Dude claims he can move pencils and phone-book pages with his mind. Dude does so in front of a studio audience, oohs and aahs. Randi devises a test to thwart the dude's trickery. Randi shows the assembled audience what time it is.

 
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I just yesterday read a blurb that said for years every morning he would take a business card and write "I, James Randi, will die today, _____", date it, sign it, and stick it in his wallet.  And every day, he would tear up yesterday's card write a new one.  He finally quit after something like 20 years, lamenting that he just "had never gotten lucky".

RIP Amazing Randi

 
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This television appearance on What's My Line? is one I definitely remember:

Randi tests James Hydrick's psychic claim (extended version) - part 1 of 2

Randi tests James Hydrick's psychic claim (extended version) - part 2 of 2

TL:DW -- Dude claims he can move pencils and phone-book pages with his mind. Dude does so in front of a studio audience, oohs and aahs. Randi devises a test to thwart the dude's trickery. Randi shows the assembled audience what time it is.
That is some major cultural appropriation there.

Randi ruled.

 
Doug B said:
This television appearance on What's My Line? is one I definitely remember:

Randi tests James Hydrick's psychic claim (extended version) - part 1 of 2

Randi tests James Hydrick's psychic claim (extended version) - part 2 of 2

TL:DW -- Dude claims he can move pencils and phone-book pages with his mind. Dude does so in front of a studio audience, oohs and aahs. Randi devises a test to thwart the dude's trickery. Randi shows the assembled audience what time it is.
Wearing a mask would have been a better control, imo. Granted, "psychics" will always rationalize an excuse for why it won't work...mask blocks the flow of energy, etc.

Rip Randi. Hope you find some real magic.

 
D-Day said:
Jerry Jeff Walker.  RIP Mr. Bojangles.
Awwww, ####. I'm a hi-concept guy, music-wise - a guy on a stool with a guitar had to be real special to do anything for me. 'cept for Jerry Jeff, and the more of a snootful he had behind him the better. The human circus, in all & none of its glory in his recklessly careful handling. I am in his debt. RIP -

 
This television appearance on What's My Line? is one I definitely remember:

Randi tests James Hydrick's psychic claim (extended version) - part 1 of 2

Randi tests James Hydrick's psychic claim (extended version) - part 2 of 2

TL:DW -- Dude claims he can move pencils and phone-book pages with his mind. Dude does so in front of a studio audience, oohs and aahs. Randi devises a test to thwart the dude's trickery. Randi shows the assembled audience what time it is.
There’s a Netflix documentary about him that was great. 

 
Tough week for Outlaw country. 

Billy Joe was aquitted for shooting a man in the face in a bar parking lot due to self defense. Billy Joe said, "I shot him right between the Mother and the F*****. Did him up right."

I always thought that was the baddest line I ever heard.  

 
Category: This Is The Color Of Snow

Sean Connery:  What is yellow?

Buzzzzzzz!

Alex Trebek:  Incorrect.

Sean Connery:  Are you sure I made some yesterday.  Spelled your name in a snowbank, of course....

It was in your mother's handwriting, haa haaaaaaa.  She was holding the pen.

 
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Category: This Is The Color Of Snow

Sean Connery:  What is yellow?

Buzzzzzzz!

Alex Trebek:  Incorrect.

Sean Connery:  Are you sure I made some yesterday.  Spelled your name in a snowbank, of course....

It was in your mother's handwriting, haa haaaaaaa.  She was holding the pen.
Connery: I’ll take “swords” for 200.

Trebek- that’s “S” words, so, words that start with the letter s, here we go...”a tool with teeth, used to cut down trees...”

Connery- “WHAT IS EXCALIBUR!!!”

One thing is certain, another highlander is more powerful today.

 
It will be interesting to see if SNL acknowledges Connery's passing since the Jeopardy skit was such a regular piece.

 
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Comedian Norm Crosby, dead at 93. He was great on the old Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts.
weird. i have a Norm Crosby story from when he used to play my home casino, but it doesnt reflect well on him, so not really right for obit time, tho that's the only time it could arguably be topical. RIP, funnyman -

 
i HATE homerism, but i love this man like a father, as everyone not wearing stripes did. this hurts more than Trebek. God bless ya, big guy. RIP - 

from my selection of him as my b-ball coach in the sports timdraft™:

58.16 Tommy Heinsohn, Greatest NBA Coach

My whole life this guy's in my face. Player, coach, nonpareil homersexual broadcaster - cant remember a Celtic season without him and i remember 60 Celtic seasons. If anyone deserves to be an honorary Irishman, it's Twawmmy.

And i still dont know how he done it. Kareem, Walton, Lanier, Reed, Gilmore, Unseld dominating the 70s game from the center position and Heinsohn wins 2 titles with a 6'8 white guy at center, a 76yo Havlicek and a buncha role players. Then he quits when Hondo does. One of the most dadblasted things i seen in sports.

 

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