# James Randi Owes Me $1,000,000 & Czarcasm Closed My Thread Without Reason **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 2, 2004, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246 "2004-01-02T07:25:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/161 "2004-01-03T10:43:29Z")
I have a…well…a question. How do your theories apply to the operation of 1920s Style Death Rays? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/162 "2004-01-03T11:29:39Z")
I’m afraid to inform all of you that Question is middle-aged. The problem is, you see, he was the patient at Woodstock that induced the warning of the brown acid. Man, even after a half bottle of Southern Comfort, I have yet to make a statement that merits 4 pages and counting. reading your rants is like watching Jerry Springer. No matter how bad my life is at the moment, I can check and be able to say, “Ya know? My life isn’t so bad.” Thank you for that, Question. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/163 "2004-01-03T11:40:44Z")
man… i see a lot of chains that look freshly yanked in here… ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/164 "2004-01-03T12:39:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by I Love Me, Vol. I \* > \*\*man… i see a lot of chains that look freshly yanked in here… \*\* Tch! You’re _supposed_ to be concentrating on your **fingers**! And the number **7** , not “a lot”! ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/165 "2004-01-03T23:25:50Z")
Ah. So _that’s_ what I was doing wrong. I was concentrating on the _whole_ hand, and now you tell me it should just be the _fingers_. _stares at her fingers til she goes cross-eyed_ ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/166 "2004-01-03T23:53:25Z")
The hand is the fingers. The fingers are the hand. The palm is your pilot. ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/167 "2004-01-04T00:10:23Z")
\*I am a man, A man with no fingers, A man with no fingers on my hand. I am a man, A man with no fingers, And that doesn’t count my index finger, my middle finger, my ring finger, my little finger, …Or my thumb.\* ---
**Author:** ![IWLN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@IWLN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IWLN)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/168 "2004-01-04T00:30:54Z")
Slow day for the hand? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![eli\_the\_fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@eli\_the\_fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eli_the_fanatic)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/169 "2004-01-04T00:44:46Z")
**The Number 7** Don’t forget the importance of the John Elway-lead Broncos and their 1997 & 1998 season championships. Before the playoffs, 7 was just 13-6. That’s the importance of the playoffs. They took 7 and made it [meaningful]7[/meaningful] ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/170 "2004-01-04T01:04:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*. . . Does anyone else picture Question in a beret and goatee and playing bongo drums while a woman in a leotard does Interpretive Dances behind him? \*\* I’m picturing women in leotards dancing, but I can’t get around to picturing **Question**. ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/171 "2004-01-04T01:06:21Z")
Now obviously no-one here has been to **Tramalfadore** ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/172 "2004-01-04T01:13:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Question \* > \*\*i’m sorry, antioxidants protect the physical body from the harmful effect of quantum particles … \*\* Great. Now I’m picturing a zombified Richard Feynman rising from his grave and beating **Question** over the head with a Physics 101 textbook. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/173 "2004-01-04T01:15:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > > > [@](#): > > > > _Originally posted by Gadfly_ > > **Close the thread! Before the stupidity of Question falls, like a chip of ice-nine, into the great sea of the SDMB.** > > \*\*_–bestows “Pop Culture Reference of the Week” blue ribbon on post above–_ \*\* I’d like to thank Cervaise, Kurt Vonnegut, and Question’s collection of bongs, and all material discharged from it henceforth from the time said poster joined the SDMB. And all of my (two) adoring fans. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/174 "2004-01-04T01:17:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baldwin \* > \*\*Commie-style reeducation camp. \*\* A 1920’s Commie-style reeducation camp. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/175 "2004-01-04T01:28:40Z")
ALL ONE! GOD! DR.BRONNER RULES! ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/176 "2004-01-04T01:57:27Z")
what you mean use the shift key? i don’t want to drive my computer anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/177 "2004-01-04T01:59:15Z")
As a representative of the Randi Foundation, we’ve evaluated Mr. Question’s claim and decided it deserving of a million bucks. We’ve tripped on some LSD and discovered who he will be in his next incarnation and are wiring it to that person’s bank account. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/178 "2004-01-04T03:11:39Z")
gone! ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246/179 "2004-01-04T03:23:22Z")
Question has been banned, so I’m closing this thread. Lynn For the Straight Dope [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-randi-owes-me-1-000-000-czarcasm-closed-my-thread-without-reason/222246.md?page=8)