Miss Cleo

[SuperFunk]

What are your thoughts on that psychic, Miss Cleo, from those Tarot Card Reading infomercials? She shows up on television a lot. I kind of find her quite intriguing to look at sometimes. What do you all think of her?

[nightwing_38116]

Good fake accent. Very cheesy, low brow commercials. I believe that real psychics do exist, "Cleo" just ain't one of them.

[RockItShipper]

A Cleo impersonator showed up on "That's My Bush".

[Calhoun07]

Perhaps we need to refresh what CON artist means. A true con artist pulls one over on you by gaining your confidence. A bad con artist will never gain your confidence, and thus doesn't deserve the title con artist. Scam artist, but not con artist. You won't know you were hit by a con artist until after they are gone. I shudder to think how many people have been taken in by the con artist Miss Cleo.

There is only one person whom I met that I could believe had some kind of psychic ability, a co-worker at another bank I worked at, and she didn't charge me no 3.99 a minute to listen to her. Nor did she charge anybody for that matter. I think there are people who do possess a genuine gift, but those people tend to use it to help others, not to get rich off of it.

[Calhoun07]

Of course, to me, Miss Cleo is just a scam artist, but she must have been able to gain the confidence of a lot of people to still be on the air.

And what are the chances you will actually get to talk to HER when you call? It would more than likely be like that episode of News Radio when Bill McNeil went to that gym thinking he would be trained in by this great incredible celebrity personality only to have Ben Stiller come in to be his trainer in a couple minutes. You would more than likely get to talk to somebody who works for the company who employs Miss Cleo.

[killercroc]

Well several things...

First of all, that they seem to be appealing to a black audience in almost all of those commercials. Almost always black psychics and black callers. Do they think blacks are more likely to believe it? I wonder if mainly black folks call the numbers.

Second, there are several commercial like this out there where the psychic busts the caller on something. Like cheating on her husband or something. Like that's gonna make you want to call.

Third, a local radio station had a spot every Friday where "a nationally known Psychic" answers questions for callers. It was obviously a scam. It's like those "Whose line is it Anyway?" shows. The Psychic has obviously practiced and has a "bag of tricks" they fall back on to get answers. But they stopped airing those spots. I wonder if the psychic was afraid everyone would realize she was a great big scammer?

[Vigo Sprax]

I think they use African Americans because they must all have the power of Voodoo which white people don't.

I want to call just to see how stupid it is...but then she would get money. I saw a thing on Dateline (Or similar new magazine show) and it had a woman who used her psycic as her sole source of advice. She gave thousands for the service and followed everything to the letter that she said, even though the psycic was 95% of the time wrong. She ended up losing her house and all this crap.

[mxyzptlk]

i love those camercials they are so funny

[Crazy8s]

I thnk the actress playing Miss Cleo does a really fun, great job. And that's what she is, an actress. If she gets somewhere thru these goofy commercials, more power to her. Personally, I'd rather watch a show built around the Miss Cleo character than most of the crap on the tube. I get a kick out of Miss Cleo! This actress (wish I knew her name) deserves a break into a tv show!

BTW, my husband got an email from Miss Cleo telling him that she had an important dream about him!! LOL!

[joker]

they are funny, cleo says "your baby is your x's" then the actress on the other line says "i knew it!" if you knew it whyd you call? ha ha

[mxyzptlk]

its the one whos got the other girlfriend thats father :p call ms cleo and she will sshow you the future:cool:

[Bud 'n Lou]

Geez, you're all so cynical! I know two people who called her (and yes, they DID get to speak to her), and she was accurate.
I definately think she's a real psychic. And I don't see why some of you think that if she were a REAL psychic, she'd give advice for free. Why should she? She's got a talent, and good for her for cashing in on it. If you're good at drawing, or writing, or computers or whatever else, you try to get paid for it. What's so wrong with that?

[I.R Joey]

Not that I don't believe in psychic power ( I am a Christian and I do think such things exist, not necciserily good though)


As for this Cleo lady I'm a bit skeptical. She sounds like she's Jamaican (my mom's from the West Indies, and she says she thinks that sounds like an authentic accent so I believe her)or something. However, it is very possible that these people calling in are actors as well, of coarse then again maybe she really does have these powers.

BTW Of coarse the same logic could be applied to some televangalists, and other TV people intouch with the supernatural.

[RockItShipper]

The one I'm really skeptical about is the "Crossing Over" guy. He pretty much just plays 20 questions with his audience and that's passed off as communicating with the dead. :rolleyes:

[Calhoun07]

I knew somebody at the video store who was looking to make more money over the summer before he went to school (he is going to school for computer animation in Denver right now) and he applied at a local psychic phone line. He said it's all a scam, that they get information about you with your credit card number and from other sources. What is the old addage? Let the buyer beware?

[James Harvey]

Personally, I think it's expensive garbage. Plus notice how their 10 free minutes is divided over, like 4 calls, so you don't actually get a free session? It's all BUNK, that's my Opinion.

[RockItShipper]

Well, there's also the whole 'reading people' thing. Sure it's easier in person than over the phone but there's still things like tone of voice..

[I.R Joey]

Before anyone else says it.

"CALL ME NOW!!!"

[DR. BELCH]

She has an e-mail address, actually: cleo@mindandspirit.com. I've been toying with the notion of e-mailing her, but I don't know if I should give her real info or fake something. And if I do fake something, could she put an African curse on me? Has she real power? I don't want leprosy of the hemhorroids or something like that. :eek:

ROCKITSHIPPER:
A Cleo impersonator showed up on "That's My Bush".
Yes, I saw that one. She had Cleo's dialect pretty spot-on. It's running again tonight (Jun 17), in fact. Also an appearance by a Charlton Heston impersonator. I'm not sure who was funnier, he or "Jack Kevorkian".
Of course, as I predicted, the show's whirling down the porcelain. It seems mean-spirited satire has the shelf life of milk. ComCent's looking to bury this show like a cat does its flop in the litterbox; already they've rescheduled it, and soon I predict it'll be in the time slot of death alongside Duckman and Strangers with Candy.

[The Dork Knight]

Miss Cleo always gets on my nerves. But I'm gonna e-mail her if a girl that I wanna ask to be my girlfriend will say yes or no. At my school were having a 6th grade dance, can't wait to go.

[Calhoun07]

Strangers with Candy was a horrible horrible horrible show. How did so many episodes of that get made? It seemed like it went on forever.

[Bud 'n Lou]

*shudders thinking about his 6th grade dance*

BTW, give her your birthdate and first name only when you e-mail her. :-D

[I.R Joey]

"But I'm gonna e-mail her if a girl that I wanna ask to be my girlfriend will say yes or no."


Don't bother even a psychic can't help you understand girls.

[DR. BELCH]

CALHOUN07:
Strangers with Candy was a horrible...show....It seemed like it went on forever.
IMHO, SWC is a form of cathartic wish fulfillment, and I think that explains its success. To some degree, we all want to live in Jerri's world, where debauchery and immorality is brushed away with a smile and laugh, where there's always a second chance to pick up your life exactly where you left off and make up for past mistakes, and where no matter how badly you frig up there are no serious punishments or ramifications. That's why they picked it up for a second season, but a mostly mean-spirited and largely unfunny show like That's My Bush barely got one before it got hastily bumped out of its plum Wednesday slot. Rocky and Idiscussed this by e-mail a while back ago, and I said then that political situation comedy was done to death with Benson in the eighties and Spin City in the nineties, and TMB will go to hell fast. It's a one-note joke--the president's last name is slang for a woman's private parts, and he's got a veep whose first name is slang for the male genitalia. Yeesh, even sixth-graders bore of that sort of humor eventually. Stone and Parker should've stuck with Stan, Kenny, Kyle, Cartman, and Mr. Hankey. (Who the devil needs Miss Cleo? My predictions are probably just as good as hers, if not better. Just call me Nostradamus. ;) )

[killercroc]

Originally posted by calhoun07
Strangers with Candy was a horrible horrible horrible show. How did so many episodes of that get made? It seemed like it went on forever.

I hated that show also, but I have a really intelligent friend that just loved it. There's no accounting for taste.

But I am really surprised that they cancelled Upright Citizens Brigade. I thought that was really funny. Remember the one about the overendowed kid?

That's why they picked it up for a second season, but a mostly mean-spirited and largely unfunny show like That's My Bush barely got one before it got hastily bumped out of its plum Wednesday slot.

Do you really think it's mean-spirited? I guess in a way it is, but overall I think they're pretty kind. They do go out of their way to make him look stupid, but hey that's the opinion of almost everybody who didn't vote for him. If Gore had of won I bet they'd have been just as mean with the wooden, no personality stuff.

Even though they are mean at times, it comes across to me that they give him kind of a heroic everyman type persona. I mean he does try to the right thing. The guy on the show, I mean.

[freakboy86]

The thing that gets me about Ms Cleo and other over-the-phone Tarot readings is the simple fact that the questioneer HAS TO BE IN CONTACT WITH THE CARDS!!!! I've been a Tarot reader for 15 years and that's the first rule of the 'game'. The person asking the question has to cut the cards while thinking of their problem and then hand them back to the reader. So anyone who thinks their getting a 'real' Tarot reading over the phone is just throwing their money away.

[Joker85]

I saw the actress that plays miss Cleo on an old sitcom the other day. I think that she is a fake and that John Edwards is an even bigger one. Anyone who wastes money on either one is just throwing it away. JMO