Today's Topics:
Get bent
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 08:46:09 -0500
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9501171346.AA28816@hemlock>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Get bent
Since there's been no traffic lately...
* In a review of Diana Gazes's $29-a-ticket psychic spoon-bending
seminar in July, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Gazes
told the 100 attendees that their powers of concentration would
"cause an alteration in the spin of the atoms" of the spoon. To
achieve that, the student should grasp the spoon in both hands
with thumbs underneath the smallest part of the handle and "apply
some downward strength." (Not surprisingly, the Chronicle
reported, spoons handled in that manner bend fairly easily.) As
Gazes shouted "Bend! Bend!" the attendees leaped to their feet,
one by one, waving spoons, shouting, "I bent!" [San Francisco
Chronicle, Jul94]
[From News of the Weird, I assume, though it was passed on to me so I won't
swear this is true. - Eric Haines]
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