Atlantis (was: Re: [UA] Commercial)

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Bailey Watts <didi_mau at hotmail.com> wrote:
> This so much reminds me of a prank I played when I
> acting psychic either on 
> the phone or in person at a psychic fair.  When I
> encountered a person that 
> seemed to be hardcore dependent on asking psychics
> for help I would ask if 
> anyone else had done a past life reading for them. 
> When they said yes, I'd 
> ask if the person doing the reading said anything
> about Atlantis.
> 
> When they said yes again, I would tell them that it
> was really New Zealand 
> and a lot of people who have never been to New
> Zealand often make that 
> mistake during past life readings.  A little more
> then half the time you 
> could just see that soemthing clicked in their mind
> when they heard that.  
> It was pretty cool.

Not to rain on your parade, but what'd they do when
you told them you weren't psychic?  Sometimes people
get really mad when I manage to pull a trick like that
on them and sometimes they laugh, but they always seem
to remember "the New Zealand" factor of the
experience.  I think you might have opened a few eyes,
congrats.


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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
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