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Blondin

21st October 2003, 02:40 PM

Maybe this is old news but I just came across it on HotAIR. Uri Geller applied for a patent on a game show idea.
Uri's Televised Adoption (http://www.improbable.com/news/2003/feb/adopt.html)
Talk about yer reality TV...

hgc

21st October 2003, 04:03 PM

Originally posted by Blondin
Maybe this is old news but I just came across it on HotAIR. Uri Geller applied for a patent on a game show idea.
Uri's Televised Adoption (http://www.improbable.com/news/2003/feb/adopt.html)
Talk about yer reality TV... You think he'll rig it so his buddy Michael Jackson can win every time?

Blondin

21st October 2003, 08:10 PM

davidhorman

22nd October 2003, 02:43 AM

To be fair, sort of, to Geller, he does claim he did it because he wrote a fictional book based around the idea, then decided to patent it to stop anyone else from actually doing it.

David

Zep

22nd October 2003, 04:53 AM

This idea scores Uri: three (3) googly-eyed looney faces.

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