"Yeah, double-vaginal double-anal. It’s the only way a woman of my age will get work in this industry. If you don’t think that splits me open like a turkey on Thanksgiving, heh… "
Is the OP about something she’s done recently or more of a lifetime achievement pitting?
What kills me is that she gets something like $750 per half hour session. For comparison, there aren’t 100 lawyers in the nation who make that much and all of them are at the top of their game; she has no credentials other than monstrous whoppers on The Montel Williams Show.
People who are like Sylvia Browne make me very angry. Angry at the fact that I wish I could ignore my morality and profit off of idiots who would pay for that shit.
(Why do I feel this post will haunt me in twenty years when I become a successful organic spiritual chiropractor for pets).
Well, we already know that this Brown woman is a dirty whore, redundantly smelly to boot. A whore is likely to be opportunistic, though not necessary a charlatan – especially if her mouth happens to be full which is part of her job description. So I’d rank her last for now.
Of the other three I am faintly aware of Geller, the spoon-bending clown and Edward, The Speaker For The Dead. Not knowing a thing about this Popoff dude – and not arsed to look him up either – that would, pending further details, make Edward my number 1 choice.
I take Pay-pal in case there’s a cash award for the correct answer.
Actually, she comes across as foul-tempered and rude. You’d think that, like most grifters, she’d work on being oily and unctuous, but no, she presents herself as unpleasant, angry, and utterly dismissive of her fans. I’m amazed that it works.
Brown is a scheming, liar and a con artist. The stupid people are the ones who believe her and give her money. Why Montel made her a regular baffles me.
The weird thing is that she’s so bad at what she does but she’s one of the richest, most well regarded.
Obviously they’re all frauds - but at least some of them hone their craft. They’re smart, they can think on their feet, they can do a half decent cold reading, they’re charming, whatever.
Her, though - she’s mean and gruff and has uninterested and often nonsensical predictions. She’s not skilled at all at being a fraud.
I’ve seen clips of her cold readings that are just off the wall. “Yeah, I wanted to ask you about my father, he…” “Yeah, I know - he died in a car accident, right? Maybe while driving on his way to rape some sheep” “well, no, actually, he’s right here…”
Why is she successful?
Idiots who believe this shit, demand better of your frauds!
What is sad is that thems what asks her were losers back when we knew them in high school. Clue to the 1970s: It was obvious that the social dweebs would be doing pretty good ten years later, despite our poor social skills. And yeah, I grew up Down Home, so I know just how relevant your skills would be in the years to come. And I noted that there were many contestants who were even more inept than you, in that your videos would not land you on* Star Searc*h but, without the clothing, could end you up on Billie-Bob’s Star Search.
OTOH, I fall back on Wife’s explanation of why believers in Magick usually end up in double-wides, “Maybe a single-single was too narrow for them, a BIL, and the baby. Social advancement is relative.”)
Gotta admit, I always liked Uri Geller. A lot of his stuff has always been showmanship. I’ve heard he’s made most his fortune consulting for mining companies. If true, he must have gotten them some results.
You know, I think it is that gruff, disinterested demeanor that is the key to her success. It comes off as…not trying too hard? It is a strange tactic that works in sales. If you act all dismissive with certain people, they tend to believe that you don’t care about trying to trick them, you are just ‘tellin’ it like it is’.
But, yeah, you crackin’ me up with your description of Sylvia. It is dead on. When she is wrong, she doesn’t even blink. She just keeps right on talking crazy.
I would like to pit the OP and some of the subsequent posters who put the image in my brain of Ms. Browne as an actual whore. There is not enough Brain Bleach. I hope you all rot!
You mean this moron?
“She was shot!”
“She just collapsed in her room…the autopsy found nothing…”
“…I don’t care but something hit her on the chest.”
Part of me thinks that people who believe in her demonstrably false horseshit deserve to have thier time and money wasted. But then the punters aren’t stupid, just desperate enough in their grief to turn to this withered old fraud. A sane society would lock her up to stop her preying on the weak and vulnerable in such a bare-faced and despicable way.