# Cleo **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 24, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleo/78006 "2001-08-24T22:47:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleo/78006/1 "2001-08-24T22:47:17Z")
Cleo. The worst swear word I know, except for maybe politics. That stupid tarot THING pisses me off. Her stupid voice, I’m just glad the stations don’t show her anymore. And Carrot top too. so annoying… :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleo/78006/2 "2001-08-24T22:52:08Z")
What about the whole Chandra Levy thing? How’s that working out for you? ---
**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleo/78006/3 "2001-08-24T22:55:32Z")
Condit’s wife killed her. ---
**Author:** ![kylen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@kylen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kylen)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleo/78006/4 "2001-08-24T23:08:16Z")
Let’s hope that Chandra returns so that Regis can occupy the seemingly unfindable location she’s in for the rest of his mortal life… Hell Yah, Reeeg, I’ve had enough! And take that “everybody loves raymond” rain-man wanna be with you. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleo/78006/5 "2001-08-25T13:39:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bobevilsquid \* > \*\*Condit’s wife killed her. \*\* Y’know, that was my first thought, too. I think I read Presumed Innocent too many times. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleo/78006/6 "2001-08-25T15:04:12Z")
I thought Miss Cleo was okay when she was a bit-part actress in Miami Vice, but this tarot act is annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleo/78006/7 "2001-08-25T17:37:43Z")
I used to like\* her, at the beginning. She hit on a great gig. The stereotype is that Jamaicans are friendly and fun, and perhaps they’ve learned a little something about life in their tropical paradise that those of us up here in the Great White North could benefit from. A very cuddly ethnicity, with a long-standing association with voodoo, making the Tarot thing a natural. Her straight-shooting style was softened by her cuddlyness, and her obvious concern for the well-being of her callers. As cons go, it was masterful. But now Cleo’s just all full of herself. The fame has gone to her head and she just comes across as cocky and self-congratulatory. [sub]\* Please read further before construing this statement as any endorsement by Podkayne of the use of Tarot cards or 900-number pyschics in making major life decisions or ascertaining the paternity of one’s child or determining whether or not one’s significant other is cheating on one.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2001, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleo/78006/8 "2001-08-25T23:51:41Z")
_fake Jamaican accent_ “Yah, I’m Miss Cleo, 'ere to yer fortune, straight from Jamaica…Jamaica, Queens!!! Suckers!” 🙂 PSA - (not to be interpreted as racist/anti-Jamaican/anti-Jamaica, Queens/whatever the hell else. Merely mocking the woman) /PSA ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleo/78006/9 "2001-08-26T00:41:44Z")
Plus they’re killing each other in the streets of the capital city, so I guess that knocks that ‘island paradise’ bullshit on the head, too.