Working in a library can be very depressing in regards to this nonsense. I am frequently asked for books on feng shui, astrology, Sylvia Browne’s latest trash, UFO’s etc. While books on real science and skeptical examinations of the above are requested much less often, and as a result have less shelf space.
Maybe you should run a promotion: Free Carl Sagan book with every crap psuedo-science book checked out.
I read mine at Starbucks the other day and I fit me very well. So I decided to read them every day. Then I forgot, and I forgot what the one said anyway.
:smack:
Why Eve, are you trying to tell me you don’t believe every twelfth person has exactly the same characteristics as you? tsk. tsk.
Where’s CK Dexter Haven when you need him? Anyways…
You mustn’t show anxiety.
Have you heard, it’s in the stars, next July we collide with Mars?
Well for a start there are 60.000.000 million of us over here.
So, you’re a “pedantic wanker”? You must be a Gemini?
People looking for books on real science can usually find them on their own, while the pseudoscience types have much more of a tendency to get lost and have to ask for help. Maybe you should keep a supply of forked fruitwood branches handy. Then you can hand them one and let them dowse for the book they want. 
My sign is “Maternity Ward”. I was born under this one. Though it was on the cusp with “Visiting Times 1pm-3pm Only”.
I don’t believe in Hinduism, either, but I like to know about it.
Boning up on the infinite variety of human belief systems is a fine, ignorance-fighting hobby. Wanna see my collection of Tarot cards?
– Uke, Sun in Scorpio, Libra rising, Moon in Pisces
Eh, I don’t believe-believe in astrology, but I like the idea of it. I know I’m a Scorpio, but as for signs rising, waning, cusping, whatever, I lose interest. Basically I just like to be told, ‘You are an awesome person! Go you good thing!’, which is all star sign guide books ever do.
Well, did you ever?
Er…‘pedantic wanker’ is Virgo, thank you very much.
Ms Boods, born 13 September
Hm, scorpio of some flavor here - born 3:42 am 27 october 19<mumble> ok, 1961 :eek:
Wouldnt mind knowing exactly what flavor of scorpio i am 
I used to have a favorite sleep shirt, but it died years ago - garfield on it, and scorpio, great animal magnetism…so I attract animals and iron filings [or something like that, it was about 15 years ago, but I thought it was really cute=)]
As a libra I see the entire idea as a logical absurdity.
Now reading tea leaves, that’s far more realistic an idea
True story:
I’m reading through the personals on match.com, and I see a girl whose opening paragraph includes the line “I’m a cancer through and through”. Now, if she had capitalized it, I might’ve realized right from the start that she was talking about her sign. But nope, I didn’t get that. So I’m left wondering why anyone would want to compare themselves to a wasting disease as a selling point for potential relationships. I was confused.
Then I figured it out and it made more sense.
Heh heh.
Speaking of match.com…
I have a friend in her late 30s who was on match.com as well. Before she’d agree to go on a date with any of the guys who contacted her, she’d ask their birthdate (and time!). Then she’d analyze them to see if they were a match. This is a college-educated woman who has a good job with a good deal of responsibility. Did I mention she kept this information in an excel spreadsheet? :dubious:
Where I’m from, we don’t talk about what we’re doing with our Libras.
Mmmmmmm. Let’s have a Scorpio dopefest. Sex and Death rule.
A dreaded sunny day
so let’s go where we’re wanted
and I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
but you lose because Wilde is on mine
–The Smiths, “Cemetery Gates”
I never believed in astrology but something that happened seven years ago broke me of the habit of reading horoscopes completely. I was travelling home from my mother’s funeral. I’d picked up a magazine from the week before to read on the coach. My stupid horoscope said as how some wonderful news I’d recieved recently was going to like totally change my life for the better. I don’t actually remember it too well because my reaction was to take a black pen from
my bag and scribble it out so savagely I destroyed the paper. Since then not only do I ignore horoscopes I refuse to answer if someone asks my “star sign” cos there ain’t no such fucking thing.