# And a big FUCK YOU to Miss Cleo. Good Bye! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761 "2002-11-14T20:06:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![scotth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@scotth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotth)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/1 "2002-11-14T20:06:07Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/11/14/miss.cleo.settlement.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/11/14/miss.cleo.settlement.ap/index.html) Cleo is done… Best news that I have seen all week. The good news. 1. No more Miss Cleo 2. She is giving back half a BILLION dollars. 3. No more Miss Cleo The bad news. 1. She still keeps a half a BILLION dollars. 2. She isn’t going to jail or worse. 3. There was a BILLION dollars worth of gullibility? FUCK! 4. It took this long. 5. The only reason she is getting pinched is for shitty billing practices, not for being a total fraud. Still, a major victory. NO MORE MISS CLEO!!! Time to set our sites on: 1. That total fuckstick John Edwards 2. The Grade-A Ass Tampon, Sylvia Brown 3. And walking talking rectum, James Van Praagh Thank you, I feel much better now. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/2 "2002-11-14T20:32:19Z")
[www.randi.org](http://www.randi.org) for all your psychic needs. unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/3 "2002-11-14T20:35:55Z")
Miss Cleo is a spokesmodel. Access Resource Services Inc. and Psychic Readers Network Inc are the entities who will pay. ---
**Author:** ![scotth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@scotth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotth)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/4 "2002-11-14T20:36:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by unclviny \* > \*\*[www.randi.org](http://www.randi.org) for all your psychic needs. > > unclviny \*\* Believe it or not, I am a card carrying member of JREF already… (I guess that really isn’t too far outside the realm of reasonable) But thanks for pointing others to his site. ---
**Author:** ![scotth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@scotth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotth)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/5 "2002-11-14T20:39:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*Miss Cleo is a spokesmodel. Access Resource Services Inc. and Psychic Readers Network Inc are the entities who will pay. \*\* You are quite correct, but please don’t interfere with my jubilation over not seeing her smarmy ass on TV anymore.😃 ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/6 "2002-11-14T21:25:22Z")
Did anyone else have to pick their jaw up off the floor after reading they made and kept **HALF A BILLION DOLLARS** in 3 years? Holy shit! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/7 "2002-11-14T21:29:58Z")
Maybe this will get across the message that ALL psychics are frauds. I really hope that ass-canker Edwards goes down next. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/8 "2002-11-14T21:47:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \* > \*\*Maybe this will get across the message that ALL psychics are frauds. I really hope that ass-canker Edwards goes down next. \*\* Doubtful. First of all, John Edward’s fans seem quite resistant to rational argument or evidence. Second, the lawsuit only involves them being fraudlent as far as billing people goes. That’s a far cry from saying they were phony psychics. Third, and saddest, American culture seems to have decided that ESP is a proven fact and there are real psychics. For many folks, the problem is that _some_ psychics are frauds, and need to be weeded out of the _real_ psychics. In fact, I (not a “psychic”) predict that many ‘psychics’ will declare this a _victory_ because it got rid of a fraud who was making it bad for the ‘geniuine’ psychics. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/9 "2002-11-14T22:09:27Z")
Excellent news, but–you realize that we’re not done with her? No, she’s bound to turn up on future “1990s” nostalgia stuff. We can all look forward to having to explain to our grandchildren about Miss Cleo, the way we have to explain about Michael Jackson now. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/10 "2002-11-14T22:37:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \* > \*\*Maybe this will get across the message that ALL psychics are frauds. I really hope that ass-canker Edwards goes down next. \*\* Or that everyone should be a psychic, because its a hell of a racket. Gold teeth and Bmw here I come! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/11 "2002-11-14T22:38:36Z")
Half a billion dollars??? This Coyote has himself a new profession. God must love gullible fools; he created so many of them. ---
**Author:** ![scotth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@scotth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotth)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/12 "2002-11-14T22:40:22Z")
Legomancer, I agree completely. DDG, you are probably right. But, damn… Don’t be pissing on my parade already. At least finish your posts with a good FUCK YOU Miss Cleo or something… How about a hearty, “lick my asshole, you no good fraud bitch!”? DDG, I **know** you can come up with _something_ appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/13 "2002-11-14T22:58:24Z")
Um. Half a billion dollars, forced retirement, and no jail time? I was thinking justice would involve cattle prods, lye enemas, and Richard Simmons. And something tells me here miserable 15 minutes haven’t ended yet. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/14 "2002-11-14T23:10:24Z")
Ok, Scott, here goes: Bwa-a-a-h-a-h-a-h-a-h-a!!! Fuck you Miss Cleo. What happened to your powers, Beeyatch? Why couldn’t you predict that you were gonna LOSE? IN. YOUR. FACE. . You lying, cheating, fraudulent ho-bag. The court might not have said it explicitly, but the public can infer from this that you have no credibility IN ANYTHING YOU SAY. You are a CRIMINAL. You are a SWINDLER. You are a CON-ARTIST, and everybody knows it. Take your remaining stolen swag and buy yourself a conscience. How’s that? ---
**Author:** ![scotth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@scotth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotth)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/15 "2002-11-14T23:13:26Z")
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**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/16 "2002-11-15T05:56:21Z")
I saw Miss Cleo on CNN Headline News the other day. They were showing video of her giving a press conference, but the studio anchor was talking over it. There was no audio from the press conference at all. So, what I, and I’m sure millions of other CNN viewers were left wondering was, _did she keep faking the accent?_ ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/17 "2002-11-15T08:04:11Z")
Yes, Miss Cleo was annoying. But I gotta say that if you’re dumb enough to call Miss Cleo, I can’t generate much sympathy for you being fleeced. C’mon, you at least have to make the con artists _try_! ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/18 "2002-11-15T13:55:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > \*\*Yes, Miss Cleo was annoying. > > But I gotta say that if you’re dumb enough to call Miss Cleo, I can’t generate much sympathy for you being fleeced. C’mon, you at least have to make the con artists _try_! \*\* It’s like those people who wear nice clothes. Don’t they know they’re just ASKING to be robbed? And when they are they’re all “Boo hoo! Someone took my money!” Yeah yeah cry me a river. ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/19 "2002-11-15T14:10:45Z")
She had the phoniest West Indian/Jamaican accent I’ve ever heard. That’s the first thing I noticed about her. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761/20 "2002-11-15T14:21:50Z")
I just wish the commercials would still run, even if they no longer advertise anything. Not only was Miss Cleo entertaining, so were the depictions of the trashy callers. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-a-big-fuck-you-to-miss-cleo-good-bye/136761.md?page=2)