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 | | From: | Paul W Harrison | | Subject: | Re: Another example of Johnny Carson's skepticism | | Date: | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:31:55 +0200 |
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 | I'm surprised nobody's mentioned that other late-night (and highly
irritable) diviner of people's minds, Jay Leno's "Mr Brain..."
Paul W Harrison, TESL
interEnglish (Finland)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garrison Hilliard"
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:24 AM
Subject: Another example of Johnny Carson's skepticism
> >From http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/rerunberry1.html
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> 2) Turns out Carnac the Magnificent is a big fan of The Amazing Randi.
> Johnny
> Carson's private foundation has made a whopping $100,000 donation to a
> Florida
> group that aims to debunk "paranormal and pseudoscientific" claims made by
> supposed mentalists, mind readers, psychic surgeons, and personalities
> like
> spoon bender Uri Geller and "Crossing Over" star John Edward. According to
> an
> IRS return filed last year, Carson gave the 100k to a group run by James
> Randi,
> who adopted the tongue-in-cheek "Amazing Randi" moniker years ago. As the
> turban-wearing psychic Carnac, Carson would magically divine the answer to
> riddles contained in envelopes that had been hermetically sealed in a
> mayonnaise
> jar on Funk & Wagnall's porch. (1 page)
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