And threatened YouTube with legal action if they didn’t remove videos he (Geller) claimed he owned,including snippets of news shows where he appeared.
Quivering with courage, YouTube removed them, but others posted copies where Geller can’t touch them or on sites where they are just itching for a fight. So far, Geller has left those alone.
Geller claims he is not a magician but has psychic powers, so he sues anyone who claims that he is just doing parlor tricks.
Which he is.
Worse, IIRC Geller won on a couple of points – minor compared to his losses – but somehow and for some reason CSICOP (now CSI) ended up pretty much breaking all public ties with Randi, a move on CSICOP’s part for which I have no respect.
Boo, CSICOP!
Translation, please? What does 12(b)(6) refer to? Is that a cite to the CFR, or federal rules of courtroom procedure, or Alien & Sedition Acts, or what?
I’m a bit slow today, it took me two tries to get the “pair of pants” joke.
Ah, uh…oh.
I AM NOT FEELING DEFENSIVE.
LIAR! J’ACCUSE!!
Sorry 'bout that.
I was referring to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, rule 12(b)(6) which is the motion to dismiss the pleading for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. It’s the basic “I move to toss out this garbage” motion in federal jurisdiction. I haven’t taken civil procedure yet, so the extent of my knowledge on the subject comes from my half-semester “Litigation Basics” class.
This complaint seems like such an absolutely perfect example of a pleading that doesn’t state a legitimate claim that I assume any judge will toss it out as soon as he hears the proper motion to dismiss. Can the motion be made on the back of an envelope? Can it be written on a brick and left on the courtroom steps? Ooh! Here’s one: Can it be posted on a message board?!?
what.
the.
hell?
Also, somebody should look through those rules and try to turn Straight Dope into something, that should be funny.
ooh, I see we’ve spilled over to another forum. Please enjoy the show 
BTW, George does not claim to be able to decypher any language. He claims the opposite – that only English works. (Which English, I’m not sure). We tried to get him to try other languages but to no avail.
Oh, and he kept claiming to be some uber-litigant who had won all his cases – but somehow no court records can be located to show that. It took me at least, some time to figure out that by ‘prose’ he meant ‘pro se’. LashL’s putting together a nice page of all the documents found so far. Go read http://simpsonlitigation.googlepages.com/home for more fun and games.
Now, I wonder if this forum’s going to be as fun as the JREF’s. Please don’t dissapoint 
George? Is that you? 
So far, every claim he makes that has been investigated has turned out to be false. A perfect track record so far.
Dude, this forum is more fun than two barrels of psychedelic, paranormal monkeys, you bet.
“Corn Gods”?!
Do they communicate through crop circles?
crank.net gives ET Corn Gods a “Crankiest” rating . . . at least it’s not “Illucid.”
No, cornholes.
So to make this lawsuit go away, all he needs is some TP for his bunghole? Oh, and a new pair of pants, of course.
Welcome fugitive-from-simpson, hope you stick around. Alternatively, you can buy a round. I’ll have a creme soda.
OK Well I went to one of Mr. Simpson’s websites, where he lists his phone number. I gave him a call through a relay service (where you type and an operator reads it aloud to him, then types his response back.) It was an amusing call, he eventually told me to go to hell and hung up. I made fun of him with the operator afterwards and she thanked me for brightening her day.
I’m sad that I can’t check out his site from here at work, but it’s blocked. My employer (the US Air Force), blocks it with the reason that it’s “humor.”
Hmm, maybe the military is sharper than they appear…
any chance of brightening our day with a transcript 
Sorry, it’s long gone now. Nothing really that interesting, I was planning on being nice to him most of the time and not make him think I was just fucking with him. I asked some questions about whether his system was a game or an actual translation tool (apparently it’s both.)
The highlight of the conversation: throughout everything he assumed I was female since the operator I was using happened to be female, so I decided to go with it and subtly hit on him. Eventually I go:
“Are you single?”
“No”
“Are you the single most retarded person I’ve ever talked to?”
“Tell him/her to go to hell” (hangs up)
Opr: Would you like to place a call?
Me: Damn, I was hoping to learn the secrets of the universe. Hope that brightened your day!
Opr: (Smile) thank u
End of conversation.