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Funny skeptical prank

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Inspired by a night of watching Penn & Teller's "BS", my girlfriend and I came up w/ a great prank to play on your local psychic.

1)Call up the psychic & ask the price of a reading.
2)Withdraw this much money from your bank account in the form of pennies, nickels, and dimes.
3)Unroll the coins, place them in a container of some sort and mix them up well.
4)Go in, get your reading. Act all amazed by their "psychic abilities".
5)When the reading is over & you have to pay up, take out the bucket 'o coins & say "I'm pretty sure that there is enough money in here"
6) When the psychic gets mad that you they will have to count all the coins, act all surprised and say "why are you mad? shouldn't you have known that I was going to pay w/ loose change?"
 
Sounds like a waste of money to me.

Hey, I used to busk at one time! I could get most of the week's groceries off a couple of handfulls of loose change in those days.

But best wishes with it anyway.
 
new skeptic said:
p.s. will let you all know how this goes over :D
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I showed a friend the idea. He thinks they probably ask for payment up front.

They must be psychic or something.
 
Hitch said:
I showed a friend the idea. He thinks they probably ask for payment up front.

They must be psychic or something.
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:D :D

every psychic I know asks for it up front.

I am working on a prank on some poor psychic in the area where I would send in a very convincing transvestite and see if the psychic can guess she's a man...

Now if only I could find a transvestite that convincing...
 
What a nasty piece of work you are, new skeptic. I am glad that there are more spiritually-minded people around to counteract your nastiness.

This wouldn't be a prank - this would be spitefulness on a grand scale, committed against someone to whom you had never met, and who would not wish you any harm.

These Penn and Teller programmes really have got a lot to answer for. I always wondered to what sort of person to whom they appeal; now I know.


Patsy.
 
songstress said:
What a nasty piece of work you are, new skeptic. I am glad that there are more spiritually-minded people around to counteract your nastiness.

This wouldn't be a prank - this would be spitefulness on a grand scale, committed against someone to whom you had never met, and who would not wish you any harm.

These Penn and Teller programmes really have got a lot to answer for. I always wondered to what sort of person to whom they appeal; now I know.


Patsy.
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Just a hypothetical here: Would P & T have more or less to answer for than a group of people who are either deluded or fraudulent offering vulnerable people false hope and empty wallets?
 
songstress said:
What a nasty piece of work you are, new skeptic. I am glad that there are more spiritually-minded people around to counteract your nastiness.

This wouldn't be a prank - this would be spitefulness on a grand scale, committed against someone to whom you had never met, and who would not wish you any harm.

These Penn and Teller programmes really have got a lot to answer for. I always wondered to what sort of person to whom they appeal; now I know.


Patsy.
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Actually, i feel that psychics are harmfull to society, earth, and the human race in general.

I do not agree with making a practical joke on them, but i understand why other want to do that.

So.. you are glad that there are spiritually-minded people like psychics... wouldn't that imply that humans have spirit?

Spirit = "the vital principle or animating force within living things"

Well, if spirit is blood, then maybe. But i think you mean something like soul.

Sincerely
Tobias
 
TobiasTheCommie said:
So.. you are glad that there are spiritually-minded people like psychics... wouldn't that imply that humans have spirit?

Spirit = "the vital principle or animating force within living things"

Well, if spirit is blood, then maybe.
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Well if she wants bloody-minded people, she's come to the right place.

Songstress, what's the harm? They still get their money don't they? And if they care that much, they should see it coming shouldn't they? What are they getting the money for in the first place, anyway?

But yeah, I think payment up front will probably be compulsory. Probably better to ring her doorbell and run away.
 
A little unfair. If I take my brain out for a moment and think like these parasites, it is not right to fool them on something that they are unlikely to have checked on in their own deluded little world.

How about going as a pair withdrawing twice the cash needed and splitting it.

After the reading the parasite can be asked to divine who does not have the cash to pay and if they get it wrong, they're not psychic so you don't pay.

You could be kind and really only have one set of cash, but I see little reason to be kind to infectious parasites.

Songstress has got herself in a flap on this one. As a person whose solution to one members devastating, nightmare encounters with a parasitic peddler of the paranormal was to go and see another parasitic peddler of the paranormal, I would pay her little attention.
 
new skeptic said:
6) When the psychic gets mad that you they will have to count all the coins, act all surprised and say "why are you mad? shouldn't you have known that I was going to pay w/ loose change?"
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Why would the psychic even need to count the coins at all? In fact, it's odd that they ask for payment up front, shouldn't she know if the mark--erm I mean customer--has it with him? No wonder a standard statement among psychics is "You worry about money." "No sh1t Sherlock, I just handed over $75 and will have nothing to show for it!"
 
songstress said:
What a nasty piece of work you are, new skeptic. I am glad that there are more spiritually-minded people around to counteract your nastiness.

This wouldn't be a prank - this would be spitefulness on a grand scale, committed against someone to whom you had never met, and who would not wish you any harm.

These Penn and Teller programmes really have got a lot to answer for. I always wondered to what sort of person to whom they appeal; now I know.


Patsy.
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Boy, songstrees, you're a real "patsy"!;)
 
songstress said:
This wouldn't be a prank - this would be spitefulness on a grand scale, committed against someone to whom you had never met, and who would not wish you any harm.
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Get a grip!

No, it's not really a prank, in that much you are right.

But, lighten up - it's just a funny comment to make while paying somebody legitimately for their services.

Kinda like the old joke about a fortune teller that complains when the client is late to the appointment ... "Well, I'd have called ahead, but I assumed you already knew!"

....or a cartoon I saw once where the client who turns up to the fortune teller's tent/ caravan and is shocked to see a sign "Closed - due to unforeseen circumstances."

I used to read Tarot cards, back in my pre-enlightened days, and I got no end of amusing comments such as this. If I had ever charged money for my readings, and they pulled a stunt like above, I would have laughed it off, and maybe added something like... "Well, I did say you were carrying a heavy burden."
:D

Get a thicker skin.
 
songstress said:
What a nasty piece of work you are, new skeptic. I am glad that there are more spiritually-minded people around to counteract your nastiness.

This wouldn't be a prank - this would be spitefulness on a grand scale, committed against someone to whom you had never met, and who would not wish you any harm.

These Penn and Teller programmes really have got a lot to answer for. I always wondered to what sort of person to whom they appeal; now I know.

Patsy.
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GOOD GOD PAYING IN CHANGE THIS IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY YOU'LL NEVER GET AWAY WITH IT

YOU WILL ANSWER FOR YOUR CRIMES NEW SKEPTIC
 
Okay, so you are going to give someone money for doing nothing.

Who is the joke supposed to be on again?

You can play this joke on me any time you'd like.

Save your money, Newskeptic. The psychic will probably ask for the money up front, and even if he/she didn't, all they would have to say is "that isn't the way my powers work." That is their out for everything.

Here's a better joke:

When they ask for payment, pull out your wallet/purse, and make an elaborate pantomime of pulling money from it, counting aloud as you place each invisible bill on the table.

When the psychic asks what you are doing, say "Since you're going to pretend to be psychic, I figured I'd pretend to pay you."
 
songstress said:
What a nasty piece of work you are, new skeptic. I am glad that there are more spiritually-minded people around to counteract your nastiness.

This wouldn't be a prank - this would be spitefulness on a grand scale, committed against someone to whom you had never met, and who would not wish you any harm.

These Penn and Teller programmes really have got a lot to answer for. I always wondered to what sort of person to whom they appeal; now I know.


Patsy.
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So, you would say it's wrong to pull pranks on unethical people?
 
payment up front would be even better.
A)I wouldn't have to hear their made up on the spot information about me
B)I'd could make an appointment, then when they refuse the money I could be all like "didn't you forsee this when you made the appointment?"
c)I could keep my money, go to the CoinStar machine & get it back in the form of real money (the laughs would be worth the little bit of money CoinStar would take out)
 
i can, personally, take no joy in doing something like that. Nor in other people doing it.


I think it is sad that some people are deluded enough to think they have special abilities.
And i think it is sad that some people feel forced to pray on other people to earn a living.
And i think it is sad that some people have no moral.

But i still can't make fun of them at their expense... i just... can't.... do it. :/

That thing, though, is my autism(not joking here).


But if you will be amused by the endeavour, by all means go ahead :D

No one should comform to me or what i would do.

Sincerely
Tubse
 
new skeptic said:
payment up front would be even better.
A)I wouldn't have to hear their made up on the spot information about me
B)I'd could make an appointment, then when they refuse the money I could be all like "didn't you forsee this when you made the appointment?"
c)I could keep my money, go to the CoinStar machine & get it back in the form of real money (the laughs would be worth the little bit of money CoinStar would take out)
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Why would they refuse the money? You're not the only person who knows about the existence of CoinStar.
 
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