BS: Uri Geller

Subject: BS: Uri Geller
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 02:48 AM

Hello,
What is the point of Uri Geller?
he is crap, he thinks hes bloddy great "blar,blar, bar, look at me, i can bend sppons", he;s rubbish.
wahts so good about bending sppons then?
not really useful is it?
if he came round here, and started bending my spoons, i would give him a slap!

i heard he drives about in a rolls royce covered in bent spoons, waht an asswhole!

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Teresa
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 02:59 AM

I'd rather play the spoons and save the bending for harmonica reeds and guitar strings, myself.
T

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Wolfgang
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 03:43 AM

He's a fairly good stage magician who knows several ways to get the same effects. Spoon bending is easy, everybody can do it.

But this guy is absolutely brilliant in distracting the attention. So the one big difference between his and, for instance, my spoon bending is that everybody sees when I do it (and completely fails to be amazed, of course) and nearly nobody sees when Uri does it. He's also a great opportunist, that is he makes use of chance events and tricks the audience into believing he was responsible for what has happened.

However, his act is not so amazing that it could earn him enough money if he was advertising himself as stage magician (like in his early days in Israel). That's why he makes psychic claims. People pay for money for the same tricks if they think the effect has been made not be normal means.

How much would you pay me, for instance, when I bend a spoon while you have your eyes closed for 5 sec? That's what I thought, I better keep my day job.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 04:07 AM

You just said that!

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 04:14 AM

Not only can I bend spoons, I can bend CARS.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: mooman
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 04:16 AM

You see jOhn?

Wolfgang can make two identical posts 19 minutes apart without anybody seeing how he did it.

He's easily Uri's equal although if I were him I'd stay as a Professor for now!

moo

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Wolfgang
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 04:18 AM

That's easy, Eric, but will the onlookers swear afterwards you have not even been near to the car all of the time? That's the part I always fail.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Wolfgang
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 04:20 AM

Will you pay for watching me make several identical posts within a short time, Richard?

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Wolfgang
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 04:21 AM

Will you pay for watching me make several identical posts within a short time, Richard?

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Wolfgang
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 04:21 AM

Will you pay for watching me make several identical posts within a short time, Richard?

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: mooman
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 04:22 AM

In Hull they would pay £57 for that Wolfgang! (;>)

Richard

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Wolfgang
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 04:23 AM

I do it only by concentrating upon my computers energy aura I swear (at you if you don't believe me)

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 07:49 AM

In Halifax they would pay sevenpence halfpenny.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Amos
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 08:58 AM

John:

Bend spoons without touching them, yourself, and see how hard it is!! THEN moan.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 09:44 AM

I can bend my knee - but never without a moan.

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 09:51 AM

I can bend your ear, and stay far enough away you can't hit me.

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: sledge
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 09:58 AM

I've been known to bend the truth ;-)

Sledge

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: GUEST,wondering
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 10:07 AM

Sinsull, you wanna 'splain that? Lotta interpretations possible!

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: CarolC
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 12:11 PM

John, have you noticed that your spoons are not flat already? Well... how do you suppose they got that way in the first place? That's right, he's been to your house already. Now ask me how I know this.

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Bagpuss
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 05:23 PM

I saw a tv programme about the gellers on holiday in coatia a while ago and found it fascinating. Either Uri is so self deluded that he actually believes that what he does is done by the power of the mind (rather than slight of hand and other conjouring tricks), or he is an amazing actor to keep up that pretence the whole time.

There was one classic moment when he went up a bell tower and said he was going to will the bell to ring. Aftera few moments concentrating, the bell did indeed ring. He got so excited by this he was practically wetting himself. he rang a friend in england to tell him what had happened. The friend listened then asked in a weary tone if he had only just done this....and was he aware that it was just past the hour...and that bells in tower often ring on the hour...

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 05:36 PM

I use that technique every morning at dawn to will the sun to rise.

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 06:39 PM

Just imagine if all guitar players were able to bend spoons using just their minds! There would be no more spoon players at jam sessions! The guitar players would just imagine the spoons wrapped around the players' necks....

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Wolfgang
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 07:05 PM

He's an actor and not deluded at all. Money and power is his game. If he was deluding himself he would be not so careful to avoid traps and controls. A person truly believing in his own power would be less careful.

But sometimes even he is framed. There is for instance one telling picture showing him making the 'mental photography' trick that is generating a picture a film on a camera with the lens closed. The easy part is how you actually do it: you open the lens for light to fall upon the film. Everybody can do that. The truly difficult and amazing part that only very few people including Uri can do is to detract the people looking at you in such a way that they are ready to swear that you have not even been close to the camera let alone touched it though that was exactly what you have done.

One of these times they had a fisheye-camera without Uri knowing that shows everything at a 180 degrees angle. Uri was doing his usual routine of detraction and then quickly lifting the lid covering the lens. The angle of the picture was so that one could se Uri bending over the camera and lifting the lid.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 07:25 PM

Urine Geller=Wanker!
this is my opimioniom.john

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 07:28 PM

ps=If he came round here, and started bending my spoons, i wou;ld smash his face in!
[theres no need for it].john

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 03 Sep 04 - 04:52 AM

Come to think of it, it could have been that twat Geller that bent my car after all.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: s6k
Date: 03 Sep 04 - 08:02 AM

My main man Uri Gellar!!!
take his spoons away from him, he be crying like a bitch!
mother fuckin spoon lover!

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 08:27 PM

David Blane is a wanker as well,
he sat in a box for a month, so waht, not very usefull skill is it!

"look at me, i can sit in boxes for ages, blar, blar, blar"!
yeah, mate, come back wehn you can heal the sick, cure the blinds etc.
wahts so good about sitting in boxes then, nothing, thats waht!

And Uri Geller is bes6t frends with Michael Jackson, he's a monkey face weirdo, i saw a programme about him, he's got a fairground in his garden, nutter!

and a zoo, i think.

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Sep 04 - 08:31 PM

and he always wears gloves, thats because he's got really hairy hands, like a monkey.

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Amos
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 12:10 AM

And you'll never cure the blinds with hairy hands. Better to use a feather duster.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 12:59 AM

But does he have hair on both sides of his hands or only the palms?

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 04:27 AM

jOhn, are you any relation to the Self-Righteous Brothers? "Oi, Geller! NO!!"

Just a thought ...

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 11:26 PM

Amos say= "bend spoons without touching them, blar, blar, bklar"

wahts the poiunt in bending spoons, its not a proper job is it?
doesn't contribute to society does it?

can you imagine judgement day=God will say to Uri, "waht did you do with your time on earth then Uri?"
Uri says "I bent thousands of spoons"!
God will say "Fuck off Uri"!


[That's if there is a God, ie thats waht he would say, if there was one [if he had any sense]].

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 02:22 AM

Anything is a useful skill, even sitting in a box for forty days, if you can get people to pay you money for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Uri Geller
From: Amos
Date: 11 Jan 05 - 09:27 AM

It keeps our hopes alive, John, that some day we will get our POWERS back!! Oi!!!


A