From: "Phil Payne" 

> Sure, and I'd not be surprised if there were twenty other predictions from
> various people which didn't come close to being true.  All you have to do
> is cherry pick.  This reminds me of the scam where an
"analyst" makes up
> financial predictions of all sorts to random people with the intent of
> only following up with those people later who received the particular
> "predictions" that came true.

Everyone cheery-picks.  Becoming more of a problem for you than me, sinc
eyou have fewer cherries to pick.

> "Psychics" have understood this game for millenia.

Oh, indeed.  Back when I had a mobile phone scanner, I once picked up a
conversation between a woman who'd been stood up by her boyfriend and her
astrologer.  I'm not kidding - this was back when mobile phones cost $1 a
minute plus what the astrologer charged.

She rabbited on for a few minutes and then her guru made a comment.  She
exclaimed about his prescience - how on earth could he have known that?  I
was hopping around the room screaming: " Because you told him three
minutes ago, you stupid tart."

All it takes is a block of A4 paper and a pencil.

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