# More utter stupidity from the NY Times (Fellating Uri Geller) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 9, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-utter-stupidity-from-the-ny-times-fellating-uri-geller/986797 "2023-07-09T03:35:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 97
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2023, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-utter-stupidity-from-the-ny-times-fellating-uri-geller/986797/97 "2023-07-12T15:57:10Z")
Some people just don’t like to admit they’ve been fooled. There are threads in the SDMB that I sometimes go back to and read for fun. This thread is one of them. > [@When a Mentalist or Sherlock Holmes "read" someone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-a-mentalist-or-sherlock-holmes-read-someone/713160): > > When a mentalist or Sherlock Holmes “read” someone is that real or is it pure fiction ? In other words, can you look at a persons clothes, dialogue and body language and determine that they are a recently unemployed accountant who loves the Dallas cowboys? Or a off duty chef who is nervous about proposing to his girlfriend? That’s completely bogus, right? The fun starts on post 39, in which a long time member recalls a magic trick he observed at a party. Several people that know their stuff try to tell him how the trick was performed, even going as far to associate a particular word used in the trick with a prop (a book) that is commonly used in magic acts. And the person that posted about the trick consistently refuses to believe them……because he doesn’t think he would fall for the misdirections he fell for, I guess. It was very amusing. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-utter-stupidity-from-the-ny-times-fellating-uri-geller/986797)._