# Shocking News! Miss Cleo is from California! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-miss-cleo-is-from-california/98296 "2002-03-14T17:07:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-miss-cleo-is-from-california/98296/1 "2002-03-14T17:07:49Z")
[And her real name is “Youree Dell Harris”](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020314/ap_on_en_tv/miss_cleo_2). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-miss-cleo-is-from-california/98296/2 "2002-03-14T17:09:16Z")
[Fixed link](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020314/ap_on_en_tv/miss_cleo_2). ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-miss-cleo-is-from-california/98296/3 "2002-03-14T17:12:53Z")
Duh. Miss Cleo is JAMAICAN. Can’t you tell by her authentic island accent? Geez. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-miss-cleo-is-from-california/98296/4 "2002-03-14T17:13:28Z")
beat ya by 5 minutes dude… 😃 …with a link to the birth certificate…so there! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-miss-cleo-is-from-california/98296/5 "2002-03-14T17:20:17Z")
Well, at the moment, your thread has 0 responses. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Zappo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b3f665/32.png) [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-miss-cleo-is-from-california/98296/6 "2002-03-14T17:39:52Z")
Eyyyy, nex’ ting you know you’ll be tellin’ me dat her seein’ de future ting is jus’ a big put-on! 😉 Zap! ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-miss-cleo-is-from-california/98296/7 "2002-03-14T17:58:19Z")
It’s her **astral** body that’s from Jamaica. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-miss-cleo-is-from-california/98296/8 "2002-03-14T18:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*Well, at the moment, your thread has 0 responses. 😛 \*\* If it’s any consolation, I was about to post to your thread, **beagledave**. But on preview, it was already closed. (I had nothing original to say, just the obligatory joke about how she should’ve seen this coming.) ---
**Author:** ![Jimson\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@Jimson\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimson_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-miss-cleo-is-from-california/98296/9 "2002-03-14T18:25:51Z")
This adds to the State’s case how? I mean surprise surprise the carnival fortuneteller isn’t a real gypsy. How does a telephone psychic threaten you? “Tomorrow night the phone will ring during diner 10 times. It will be telemarketers”. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-miss-cleo-is-from-california/98296/10 "2002-03-14T22:10:30Z")
Jeez, if she’s from CA, wouldn’t that make her _more_ likely to be credible to the easily-fooled? I mean, all the good charlatans come from 'round here anyway. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2002, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-news-miss-cleo-is-from-california/98296/11 "2002-03-14T22:22:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jet Jaguar \* > \*\* > > If it’s any consolation, I was about to post to your thread, **beagledave**. But on preview, it was already closed. > \*\* s’allright…just another in a long line of examples of the man keepin’ me down…guess I gots to include gratuitous references to cleavage or masturbation in my thread title next time…not that I’m bitter or anything…mumble mumble…damn crypto fascist mods pickin’ their favorites again…keepin’ the Irish American dude down…mumble mumble