# Sylvia Brown, did you get a vision of your career in the toilet? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653 "2006-01-05T22:59:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/41 "2006-01-06T18:53:18Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I wish I knew the name of the archaeologist who said this, but all I remember is he’s a big bearded guy who’s a very respected Egyptologist and when asked this in a press conference about a discovery in Egypt replied (words to this effect) “Yes, I have no doubt aliens crossed trillions of trillions of miles, came to ancient Earth, looked at the people who had next to no medical knowledge and no mass communications or transportation and who were at the total mercy of the floods and insects and disease and the elements and who didn’t know that the earth was an orb that went around the sun and thought disease was spread by evil stares and that crocodile dung was a good idea to use for health and the aliens said ‘We’re gonna do something that will really help these people- I know! We’ll pile a bunch of really big rocks on top of each other’.” That’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/42 "2006-01-06T18:58:18Z")
I’m predicting that Sylvia will die ‘soon’…I’m getting a vision involving something about her head or chest area. It could also involve a limb in some way. Where is that "Cleebrity Death Pool’ thread? ---
**Author:** ![PsychoWench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@PsychoWench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PsychoWench)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/43 "2006-01-06T19:20:43Z")
> [@Xploder](#): > > Since my wife watches her shit on Montel every week, I sometimes pick up some tidbits. I heard her say, and I shit you not, “Well of course the aliens built the pyramids.” I was floored. They were landing sites for their spacecraft. What? I can’t be the only Stargate fan here… right? ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/44 "2006-01-06T20:05:00Z")
> [@PsychoWench](#): > > They were landing sites for their spacecraft. > > What? I can’t be the only Stargate fan here… right? I thought the aliens were supposed to land in Des Moines, Iowa? ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/45 "2006-01-06T20:05:20Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > Ugggh, I can’t stand that woman. I think the most ridiculous thing I ever heard her say was on Montel. I was watching it one day when she was on and some lady in the audience asked why the water was disappearing from her pool each night. > > “Aliens,” Sylvia replied nonchalantly. > > There was a moment of bewildered silence, then she explained, “Aliens are coming at night and sucking up the water from your pool. They need it for (something or other)”. > > The lady gave her a look like :dubious: and replied, “Uh, thank you…” Maybe they need it to help build new pyramids or something. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/46 "2006-01-06T20:14:16Z")
> [@PsychoWench](#): > > They were landing sites for their spacecraft. > > What? I can’t be the only Stargate fan here… right? HA! I have this rather large hardcover book that I must have got when I was around 12 or 13, called Great Space Battles. Horrible writing but SERIOUSLY cool science fiction pictures of spaceships and whatnot. One of them has a HUGE pyramidal shaped spaceship with the bottom hollowed out, lights and shit flashing all over it, landing on top of a brand new pyramid. Really great artwork but idiotic when it comes to any form of science. Don’t blabber to me about “reverse-ion flux anit-matter drives” because I tend to laugh my ass off. And Sylvia Browne is a cunt for doing what she does to gullible people. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/47 "2006-01-06T22:17:38Z")
> [@Patty O'Furniture](#): > > Laser surgery will be a big breakthrough. They will use a light beam type of thing. It will zap tumors and things. _HIT! Tattoo removal is surgery, right?_ So is the removal of [skin cancer](http://www.shorelaser.com/SkinCancer.html), [throat cancer](http://www.mayoclinic.org/throatcancer-jax/lasermicrosurgery.html), [oral cancer](http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/442595)… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/48 "2006-01-07T00:14:57Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > My prediction for how Sylvia will salvage this: The miners were indeed all alive when the reports about them being found alive were aired, but then they died just after that, and that’s why she was confused. I just want to let you know that you aren’t the first person to come up with this brilliant idea! Read my previous post ! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/49 "2006-01-07T00:28:35Z")
> [@The Flying Dutchman](#): > > I just want to let you know that you aren’t the first person to come up with this brilliant idea! Read my previous post ! So help me, I knew you were going to say that? Do you have a relative whose name starts with a J? Or a W? Could be an M or a K… or V… and it has two vowels in it… or more… might be one? If so they say hi. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/50 "2006-01-07T03:31:37Z")
Sure, scoff at Sylvia Brown’s psychic powers now. But you’ll be a believer when she posts her picks for 2005’s Death Pool later this week and gets the highest score. ---
**Author:** ![Jotun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@Jotun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jotun)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/51 "2006-01-07T09:27:59Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > So is the removal of [skin cancer](http://www.shorelaser.com/SkinCancer.html), [throat cancer](http://www.mayoclinic.org/throatcancer-jax/lasermicrosurgery.html), [oral cancer](http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/442595)… Sorry, but… [hijack]Looking at the pictures from the “skin cancer” link, especially the more serious cases, a thought that I’ve had countless times before occured to me. Of course I feel terrible for the people this happened to, but how in the world did they let it get so bad? Seriously, I’m curious. Should I start a new thread?[hijack] As for Sylvia Brown, I normally don’t mind Montel. Sometimes he has good topics and guests, but every tuesday, there she is. I’m shocked anyone still takes any of the TV psychics seriously. At least John Edward made for good fodder on that episode of South Park 😃 Is it just me, or does she seem to write a new book every week? ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/52 "2006-01-07T13:36:00Z")
> [@Jotun](#): > > Sorry, but… > > [hijack]Looking at the pictures from the “skin cancer” link, especially the more serious cases, a thought that I’ve had countless times before occured to me. Of course I feel terrible for the people this happened to, but how in the world did they let it get so bad? Seriously, I’m curious. Should I start a new thread?[hijack] > > As for Sylvia Brown, I normally don’t mind Montel. Sometimes he has good topics and guests, but every tuesday, there she is. I’m shocked anyone still takes any of the TV psychics seriously. At least John Edward made for good fodder on that episode of South Park 😃 > > Is it just me, or does she seem to write a new book every week? That’s weird…she’s on Montel Wednesdays here. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/53 "2006-01-07T20:26:02Z")
> [@Xploder](#): > > Since my wife watches her shit on Montel every week, I sometimes pick up some tidbits. I heard her say, and I shit you not, “Well of course the aliens built the pyramids.” I was floored. Did the aliens have their greencard? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/54 "2006-01-07T22:06:14Z")
> [@Xploder](#): > > That’s weird…she’s on Montel Wednesdays here. Maybe it’s like Bozo the Clown and different cities have different Montels. Anyway, fuck Montel for giving credibility to that phony hack. The sad thing is that Sylvia’s business of scamming people will continue. Her career will continue to thrive because there are limitless numbers of credulous idiots on this Earth who love to give Sylvia money dispite all of the evidence. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/55 "2006-01-07T22:20:17Z")
Just out of curiosity, has anybody ever seen [Sylvia Browne](http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/050111_050117/050113_Sylvia_hd.hmedium.jpg) and [Harvey Fierstein](http://www.frankdecaro.com/recipes/photos/harvey_fierstein/hf8.jpg) _together_? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/56 "2006-01-07T22:37:04Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Just out of curiosity, has anybody ever seen [Sylvia Browne](http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/050111_050117/050113_Sylvia_hd.hmedium.jpg) and [Harvey Fierstein](http://www.frankdecaro.com/recipes/photos/harvey_fierstein/hf8.jpg) _together_? DAYUM! That’s even scarier than [Morgan Fairchild](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://members.fortunecity.com/johnrobinson9/scansf/fairchild/morgan_fairchild.jpg&imgrefurl=http://members.fortunecity.com/johnrobinson9/scansf/fairchild/s.htm&h=338&w=284&sz=24&tbnid=OesENcCf41kJ:&tbnh=115&tbnw=96&hl=en&start=10&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmorgan%2Bfairchild%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff) and [Barry Manilow](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Dec-03-Fri-2004/photos/manilow.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Dec-03-Fri-2004/news/25399013.html&h=370&w=400&sz=13&tbnid=k_xS8da7bwwJ:&tbnh=111&tbnw=120&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbarry%2Bmanilow%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/57 "2006-01-07T23:00:27Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Sylvia: Your husband… did he die of something that happened with his blood flow… Which covers heart attacks, strokes, and many accidents, leading causes of death for old folks. Cancerous growths are fed by blood vessels; only a slight bit of fast-talk is necessary to link those in. That’s a pretty brilliant bit of cold reading, I gotta say; props to the con artist! Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Jotun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@Jotun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jotun)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653/58 "2006-01-11T10:39:58Z")
> [@Xploder](#): > > That’s weird…she’s on Montel Wednesdays here. I’m sorry, I did mean Wednesday. I actually realized my mistake when I saw the beginning of Montel yesterday and realized she wasn’t there. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sylvia-brown-did-you-get-a-vision-of-your-career-in-the-toilet/338653.md?page=2)