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[Closed] RIP the honest liar, James Randi

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I was only watching him on YouTube last week, I'm actually kinda surprised that he was still alive! Remarkably clever bloke and massively influential, not a bad innings at 92.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54642107


 
Posted : 22/10/2020 9:28 pm
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For the benefit of anyone who missed the reference in the subject,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Honest_Liar


 
Posted : 22/10/2020 9:34 pm
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I’m actually kinda surprised that he was still alive!

Crystal power, innit


 
Posted : 22/10/2020 10:03 pm
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rip mr randi.

loved the storyville documentory about him. a decent man who spent most of his life trying to expose charlatans cough peter popoff cough for instance.

edit it was an honest liar film that i saw. definitely worth a watch for anyone who hasn't seen it.


 
Posted : 22/10/2020 10:43 pm
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I've just queued it up to watch tonight, I've never actually seen it before. I only discovered its existence last week.


 
Posted : 23/10/2020 12:00 am
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His take down of Uri Geller is my favourite:


 
Posted : 23/10/2020 1:23 pm
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He demolished Gellar, RIP a really fascinating man.


 
Posted : 23/10/2020 1:27 pm
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His take down of Uri Geller is my favourite:

I've seen that a few times over the years but there's a bit I've only just spotted: At about 6:48 Geller knocks / kicks the table - it's out of shot but you can hear it and you can see the pocket watch wobble. It's a tell, full canisters will move differently from empty ones. Did the sneaky bugger actually glue them down to stop him from doing that? Awesome.


 
Posted : 23/10/2020 2:56 pm
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Posted : 23/10/2020 3:01 pm