James Randi should offer her $1,000,000 to contact him spiritually.
“Your kid’s dead!”
You will *not *be missed, Sylvia.
I hadn’t heard anything to the effect that John Edward had stopped being the biggest douche in the universe.
Gosh, you pre-empted me by less than 15 minutes. I started a new thread in the box but decided to use Search before posting it.
ARRRRGH! My opening salvo was to be:
<< Boy, I didn’t see that one coming! 
>>
In situations like these, my greatest wish is for one small moment of honesty. Therefore for me, it’s too bad she’s dead.
She’s honestly dead…
I sincerely hope she’s more than mostly dead.
I wanted to do the same thing at my local library, or stick notes in them or something. I swear they must have all of her books.
She’s not only merely dead, she’s really most sincerely dead.
That would be the only sincere thing she ever did.
John’s an excellent choice for douchebag “psychics”, but please consider widening your hatred horizons. The two who immediately come to mind are Nancy Grace and Franklin Graham, but if you want to spread some hate toward politicians, the sky’s the limit!
Oh, come on, John Edward is clearly still the winner for douchebag of the universe. Does he still…do that thing he pretends to do? I haven’t seen him in year. Maybe even a decade.
I’m torn between elaborating on “scum” or “scam”…wait, how many words do we get for this oh-you-bitch-uary?
I am doing my Happy Dance.
Didn’t Amanda Berry’s mom die before she was found? I suppose it could still be true if there’s a “heaven or the other side”.
Or I could pretend I’m Sylvia Brown instead of reading ahead.
That’s what’s so wonderful about the most skillful predictions. You can twist them so you can’t lose.
(said Parker Lewis)
Her greatest hits include:
-Telling Amanda Berry’s mother Amanda was dead (as mentioned above)
-Telling Shawn Hornbeck’s parents that he was dead and buried between two boulders (he was later found alive living with his abductor)
-Stating upon the news release that the miners trapped in a W. VA coal mine were alive that she knew this all along, and then when it was announced- on the same episode of Montel- that the first announcement was wrong and they were in fact dead, she mentioned that’s what she had meant all along.
-Telling one woman who wanted to know how her 12 year old daughter died that she was shot (Sylvia apparently thought the child was abducted and missing; the daughter collapsed in her bedroom and died and the cause of death was not certain)
-Telling a woman who wanted to know about her boyfriend’s death that “he died in water” (he was a fireman who died on 9-11).
And people kept on giving her $850 for 20 minute readings. For perspective, the number of lawyers who charge more than she did for a reading could fit into one court room.
My father’s least favorite character in the Matrix was the Oracle. He said the character reminded him of all the self-important, overly judgmental, nicotine-addicted old hags that have aggravated him his whole life. I liked the Oracle, so I don’t share this opinion.
But I do see what he’s talking about in Sylvia Browne. I can imagine her as someone’s great aunt, parked at the end of the Thanksgiving table and driving everyone absolutely nuts with her constant talking, rudeness, bullshitting, and smoking. And visual hideousness.
She was the living embodiment of Hogatha.
When she gets to her final reward: You know that Slapping scene in Airplane? Yeah, like that but with a much MUCH longer line. Some souls are gonna be *pissed. *
OK, I’m as snarky as the next person about her & when I made a comment about her death on FB, a friend made this comment, and so I will put it here just for a bit of balance…
“I met Sylvia once at a private dinner party at a friend’s apartment in Hollywood. I was going through a difficult time in my life and wasn’t in a great frame of mind. Even though I never agreed with or believed in her methods, I will say that she tried to encourage me that day and was a kind decent person. I think she was just sincerely misled in her own mind. May she rest in peace.”