# Great. Now Madame Cleo's SPAMMING me! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 24, 2001, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396 "2001-05-24T18:58:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/1 "2001-05-24T18:58:29Z")
Yep. I got an email from the occasionally-Jamacain one herself. Addressed personally to me! Well, to one of my email names, anyway. In it, we learn that she had a dream “last night” that has strengthened the psychic powers of herself and her workers. Turns out she’s also acheived the level of “Shaman”, which is “the highest honor a Master Tarot Reader and Psychic can attain.” But apparently it doesn’t bring much of a cash prize, so she’s still working for the little guy. I also like how she mentions her TV appearances on “countless other television broadcasts.” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/2 "2001-05-24T19:40:23Z")
Did it have the standard “reply if you want to be removed from our list” thing? Because that seems like something she should already know. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/3 "2001-05-24T22:52:31Z")
Eh, mon! De tarot say you need to call me right eh-way to learn important information concernin’ ya life! Visa, Mastercard and Discover accepted. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/4 "2001-05-25T00:31:41Z")
But you could win a FREE TRIP TO FLORIDA!!! As well as a 30 (read it: 30, not 3) minute FREE TAROT READIN’ _ **LIVE** _ on TV with the Holy One herself (I wanna see WWF Smackdown: Miss Cleo vs Dalai Lama!). [http://www.mycleo.com](http://www.mycleo.com) How could you resist? I’d call her and have her tell you whether you will win. Otherwise, why enter? ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/5 "2001-05-25T00:41:15Z")
Hehe. I actually kinda like her commercials, but damn, email is going a bit far. I have known some really good Tarot readers though. I think it’s sort of similar to Sherlock Holmes personal deduction, but you can’t do that over the phone. Hmm. I once had a friend get freaked out because she went to a tarot reader and was given a description of her soulmate: it was me exactly, down to a piece of clothing I regularly wear (an orange sweater) and an object she associated with me (a ring I had given her that she was not wearing). Whoo. Lucky Charms (Formerly MarxBoy) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/6 "2001-05-25T04:17:16Z")
Isn’t ‘Shaman’ where the term ‘sham’ came from? Well, probably not, but it should be. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/7 "2001-05-25T13:16:02Z")
Ever notice how Madame Cleo’s accent veers wildly from Jamaican to Irish during her ads? “Ey, mon, de tarot say you need to call me right eh-way to larn important information concarnin’ yar loife, faith an’ begorrah!” ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/8 "2001-05-25T13:24:56Z")
My friend got that same e mail a few weeks ago! She had an important dream that would mean something Amazing! Crap. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/9 "2001-05-25T18:50:51Z")
Well, instead of **“Master Tarot Reader”** , I read **“Master Trout Reader”** … Do you think Madame Cleo is trying to tell me I need new glasses??? ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/10 "2001-05-26T01:23:12Z")
First of all I can’t stand MaDamn Cleo. Every time one of her commercials comes on TV, I have to change the channel. I feel myself actually getting dumber with every word of her spiel I sit through. One morning at about ten, I got a call from one of her workers telling me I can get a free three minutes or something. Didn’t her tarot cards tell her I had just gotten off work four hours earlier and was happily sleeping? I was too digusted to even give a reply, I just groaned and hung up the phone. I would think in all of her “wisdom” she would know who wants to hear from her and when they slept! ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2001, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/11 "2001-05-26T01:28:18Z")
Hey, guys–her name is Miss Cleo. Get with it. ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/12 "2001-05-26T03:49:00Z")
I got one, too. Yes, the commercials get annoying. Not only because of her accent, but also because of her BLATANT deducive reasoning. One commercial, a woman caller mentions that she goes to a BINGO hall. Later, the Incredible Miss Cleo mentions a woman at the BINGO hall, and the caller is stupefied when Miss Cleo deduces that this woman has SHORT HAIR!!! Are you kidding me? Q: Who goes to BINGO halls? A: Old women Q: Do many old ladies have LONG hair? A: Hell, no. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2001, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/13 "2001-05-26T20:11:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > Well, instead of “Master Tarot Reader”, I read “Master Trout Reader” Isn’t **reading trout** more of a druid thing? ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/14 "2001-05-27T03:10:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Soup\_du\_jour \* > \*\*Yes, the commercials get annoying. Not only because of her accent, but also because of her BLATANT deducive reasoning. > \*\* Also, you can always say that the lady had “short hair” or “long hair”…a person always has longer or shorter hair than someone else. And that commercial where she says the dad “have a funny little chin” and the baby “have dat same little chin”? What constitutes a funny little chin? That’s like saying someone has a funny nose - there is no such thing as an average chin/nose. I like how Miss Cleo always wears that long earring in her right ear and a littler one in the left ear. Great fashion, yo. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-now-madame-cleos-spamming-me/66396/15 "2001-05-29T14:17:54Z")
funny little chin…hey! Its Jay Leno’s love child!😉