Going to Hell in a handcart dept
An observant and publicity shy nark has tipped me off to the following:
"Romanian witches are hiring English teachers so they can cash in on the country's EU entry by targeting new clients. Local 'celebrity' white witch Ioana Sidonia is the latest witch to start having English lessons so she can cast spells for new English-speaking clients when Romania joins the EU in January".
What with the numerous ghastly hexen we already have, of both sexes, in public life, I would hope that the Romanian contingent will be disappointed, but somehow I doubt it.
Moving away from the flippant, sometimes I wonder whether the Age of Reason has petered out and that there is no hoax which someone isn't gullible enough to fall for. A case in point being the Ivorien (?) witch doctor who toured eastern France with a 'magic bag', averring that anyone who put money in it and left it with him overnight would see their money doubled in the morning. He found many takers, he being the largest of the lot, as he scarpered with the proceeeds once he had run out of suckers. Pick up a French local paper, and the small ads are awash with 'clairvoyants', faith healers and all sorts of hucksters. I suppose the British national idiocy of this sort is the horoscope, but I trust not too many people actually take them seriously.
Libertarian principles do rather get in the way of a wholehearted endorsement of the one time - maybe still extant - Brazilian statute making charlatanry a criminal offence.
"Romanian witches are hiring English teachers so they can cash in on the country's EU entry by targeting new clients. Local 'celebrity' white witch Ioana Sidonia is the latest witch to start having English lessons so she can cast spells for new English-speaking clients when Romania joins the EU in January".
What with the numerous ghastly hexen we already have, of both sexes, in public life, I would hope that the Romanian contingent will be disappointed, but somehow I doubt it.
Moving away from the flippant, sometimes I wonder whether the Age of Reason has petered out and that there is no hoax which someone isn't gullible enough to fall for. A case in point being the Ivorien (?) witch doctor who toured eastern France with a 'magic bag', averring that anyone who put money in it and left it with him overnight would see their money doubled in the morning. He found many takers, he being the largest of the lot, as he scarpered with the proceeeds once he had run out of suckers. Pick up a French local paper, and the small ads are awash with 'clairvoyants', faith healers and all sorts of hucksters. I suppose the British national idiocy of this sort is the horoscope, but I trust not too many people actually take them seriously.
Libertarian principles do rather get in the way of a wholehearted endorsement of the one time - maybe still extant - Brazilian statute making charlatanry a criminal offence.
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They could always go to Mexico and get in on the re-birthing ceremonies gig.
look in the evening standard you will find advertisements from african witch doctors , I have even had one put a leaflet through my door. It is no different from the Pope or any other priest telling you to pray (and pay).
There are loads of wierdo shops offering readings and such near me. They will now be undercut I assume.
You are not the first person to notice the rise of rubbishy superstition. My favoutrite is the idea that; by putting something in water and then diluting it until it is not there, an essence is aquired ,that may cure either cancer, or the infinitely more serious male baldness
Of course one in a million times it does. Gimme gimme
Wasn't aware that they had reached the sub-standard. Used to be quite a few in the Stratham free sheet, and I suppose I could check the Croydon one. All a bit depressing, frankly.
N - sounds like alchemy to me, and that be the devil's work (said in a Hammer Films peasant accent).
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Five points C if you can conjure up in your mind the face of michael Riper (Hammer actor) without resorting to google
clue; he was generally the coachman or peasant
Nope can't do it. Off to google I go...
Ah, yes. Him. "Ripper made a total of 35 appearances in Hammer films, playing an assortment of innkeepers, coachmen, gravediggers, poachers, and occasionally authority figures, usually with a comic twist".
He was the Drones Club porter in the Fry & Laurie 'Jeeves & Wooster' too.
But we need fools who believe, how else is someone as dim as me to get rich?
CU - All too true. Lord, send me easy marks like the people I won money from on the 1990 Tory leadership race and the presidentials in 2004.
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