Sylvia Browne Myspace Parody [Archive]

Juustin

1st February 2007, 08:53 AM

Hi everyone.

I was just wondering if anyone on here had any good ideas on how to make the Sylvia Browne Myspace Parody better. I'm sure whoever is responsible probably posts here as well.

I haven't posted enough to be able to post url's, but after the profile[dot]myspace[dot]com[slash], it's

index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=143288786

Goshawk

1st February 2007, 09:46 AM

I'm getting:

Invalid Friend ID.
This user has either cancelled their membership, or their acccount has been deleted.

:: shrug ::

Juustin

1st February 2007, 11:00 AM

Shoot, when I put the link, it automatically puts a space in between the 3 and 2 at the end of the URL. Delete that space and it works.

Azrael 5

1st February 2007, 03:04 PM

Here is the correct and working link:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=143288786

BPSCG

1st February 2007, 04:04 PM

OMG! This is hilarious! You gotta read the posts. Killtown is in there: Hi, Sylvia. I have information about 9/11, and I was hoping you could use your psychic powers to help me tie my information to some liars and dead people and help me nail the real perps.

Please check out my explosive information on camera battery covers, smoke plumes, and senior thesises.To answer the question in the OP, the fresh posters every day make it hilarious enough. BTW, Rebecca's in there.

Chris Haynes

1st February 2007, 04:16 PM

OMG! This is hilarious! You gotta read the posts. Killtown is in there: ....

That is the parody Killtown page.

BPSCG

1st February 2007, 04:42 PM

That is the parody Killtown page.See, that's what I get for avoiding the CT forum like it was an ex-girlfriend.

Gr8wight

1st February 2007, 05:50 PM

Heros: All the brave police officers and firefighters who drowned in the world trade center buildings on 9/11.

Oh, that's masterful!

Tamarillicent

1st February 2007, 06:54 PM

This is great! I love the comments by people who actually believe it's the REAL Sylvia. Pretty sweet. Makes me feel wicked smaht.

Orphia Nay

1st February 2007, 08:15 PM

This is great! I love the comments by people who actually believe it's the REAL Sylvia. Pretty sweet. Makes me feel wicked smaht.

They almost make me feel dirty for being so smarrrrght.

Or they make me enjoy feeling dirty...

Yeah_Right

1st February 2007, 10:00 PM

Hilarious parody site, but it saddens me how many people think it's her real myspace site. I mean shouldn't the "Occupation: Pretend psychic" be sufficient to make them suspicious??

Yeah_Right

1st February 2007, 10:02 PM

Hmmm, where'd that dog come from?

SPQR

1st February 2007, 10:08 PM

Who I'd like to meet:
People who aren't skeptical of anything, and are subconsciously very willing to go along with a cold reading, and anyone who's not James Randi.

:D :D

RSLancastr

1st February 2007, 10:19 PM

"Sylvia" is in my network of friends on MySpace. :D

Azrael 5

2nd February 2007, 01:54 AM

That site -primarily the peoplewho think it's really Sylvia-is an example of why some people are so easily duped!
Being sucked in on a fake myspace about a fake psychic! Brilliant.

Almost makes me want a MySpace just to add comments.But I can't be bothered!

Big Les

2nd February 2007, 02:00 AM

It's bloody brilliant! The events of 9/11 came to be in dreams in the week prior. I was able to predict exactly what happened in the week following the event.

Sylvia's Companies
Nirvana Foundation for Psychic Research
Santa Clara, CA US

Securities Fraud; Grand Larceny

Ah hell, I could quote the whole page! The comments are icing on the cake. This one is particularly odd;

15 Jan 2007 12:19

Thanks for adding me as a friend. If this is the real Soviet Brown, thank you and keep up the good work. I do a more professional psychic medium and author, and people like you bring credibility and respect to our profession. If there's anything I can do for you just let me know. Scott. www.ConnectWithScott.com

???

PS - That guy's site is a great read in itself. Love the promo line for his book-

Bridging the Gap has been met with rave reviews from Shirley MacLaine, Magazines, Book Reviewers and readers the world over.

:D

And of course the usual outright falsehoods; Scott has been branded, by those who have worked with him, as "The Ethical Psychic". He is honored to have earned this designation. Scott also works with celebrities, politicians, various law enforcement agencies & the medical community.

Has this guy been "targetted" by any sceptics before? I suspect he's too small-time.

SezMe

2nd February 2007, 02:08 AM

"Sylvia" is in my network of friends on MySpace. :D
If you click on the www.sylvia.org (http://www.stopsylviabrowne.com/) link on that page, you get directed to stopsylviabrown.com. :D

How cool is that?

Azrael 5

2nd February 2007, 02:45 AM

Is the person on this forum,who invented this?
He should be.

Juustin

2nd February 2007, 06:20 AM

I'll come clean, it was me. I did it out of boredom one day, as an obvious joke. Forgot all about it, logged in a week later to a gazillion messages from people saying "Will I ever find my true love?"

It's actually sort of depressing, how many people can read that page and not figure out it's making fun of Sylvia Browne. Even if it wasn't making fun of her, it's sad that people will assume it's really her and send really personal questions (family health, legal, etc..).

I've been trying to push the boundaries lately. Last week I sent out an important bulletin as my "response to critics in the media", with a link to the 1/26 Anti-Sylvia Swift Bulletin. A lot of people read it, got confused, messaged me with angry tones, and I replied "I'm not sure, I think my account was hacked". Then I followed up with another bulletin, saying the previous bulletin was a result of negativity on someone's part, and warning people not to read it because of the dark energy it contained. That led to more confused messages from people who had read both bulletins, asking if they'd be affected by the dark energy.

All in all, it's definitely opened my eyes to how much her average fan WANTS to believe in what you tell them; they'll completely block out everything else.

If anyone has any great predictions or info that should be added, send it my way.

supercorgi

2nd February 2007, 06:24 AM

Hmmm, where'd that dog come from?

That's my dog! Give it back!

rjh01

2nd February 2007, 06:54 AM

Announce her retirement. Tell people you are her replacement. Feed them the same religious BS she feeds them.

Azrael 5

2nd February 2007, 07:56 AM

Can she sue?

brettDbass

2nd February 2007, 08:02 AM

"Sylvia" is in my network of friends on MySpace. :D

You're up and running then?
Tsk, you forgot to message me :rolleyes:

top 12ing you right now, sir.

BPSCG

2nd February 2007, 08:04 AM

I'll come clean, it was me. I did it out of boredom one day, as an obvious joke. Forgot all about it, logged in a week later to a gazillion messages from people saying "Will I ever find my true love?"

It's actually sort of depressing, how many people can read that page and not figure out it's making fun of Sylvia Browne. Even if it wasn't making fun of her, it's sad that people will assume it's really her and send really personal questions (family health, legal, etc..). Congratulations on a fine piece of satire.

As regards people not being able to figure out it's a satire, be of good cheer. Mark Twain had the same problem when he was in the Nevada Territory in 1862. He was a newspaper editor in Virginia City, Nevada (yes, the same Virginia City made famous on the TV show, Bonanza), about halfway between Lake Tahoe and Carson City. He wrote a piece about a dead man who'd been petrified into place, and put it in his newspaper as a news item, intending it as satire. When it was published... well, why don't I let the man himself describe what happened. Here it is (http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1523/).

One thing: I would be very careful to not give people any actual advice on your $ylvia Browne spoof site. If some ignoramus were to act on it, with disasterous results, you could have tort lawyers seeking to empty your bank account faster than you could say "WTF?".

RSLancastr

2nd February 2007, 10:50 AM

You're up and running then?
Tsk, you forgot to message me :rolleyes:

top 12ing you right now, sir.Sorry, forgot I was supposed to let you know!

Juustin

2nd February 2007, 03:02 PM

Yeah, I'm not giving any advice. It's actually gotten pretty depressing. What was supposed to be a joke/obvious parody now has people messaging me their personal issues, and I have no desire to poke fun of people who are asking for legal advice or opinions about dead relatives.

It's depressing because they don't get the obvious, obvious joke. But it's also depressing that if I was someone actually trying to pretend to be Sylvia Browne, they wouldn't even question it, they'd just send me tons of personal info. Do people even think anymore?

I'm not sure, I might take it down. I don't think I'm doing anything I could get in trouble for (she's a celebrity, therefore subject to parody, everything on the site is taken from her quotes, I made sure not to use the word "fraud" except in reference to what she was actually convicted of, etc.); but I've heard her attorneys can harass people, and I really don't want a headache.

Fnord

2nd February 2007, 03:40 PM

One thing: I would be very careful to not give people any actual advice on your $ylvia Browne spoof site. If some ignoramus were to act on it, with disasterous results, you could have tort lawyers seeking to empty your bank account faster than you could say "WTF?".

Keep the advice such that it could apply to anyone, anywhere, anytime -- such as you might find in a daily horoscope -- and keep it healthy and affirmation-filled. To wit:

Dear Sylvia,

How should I live now that I broke up with my boyfriend?
Signed,

Just Asking

Dear Just,

Go above and beyond the requirements, especially your own. Take up a team sport. Sign up for a dance class. It's time to get your feet moving and your blood pumping. Your spirits will lift accordingly.

Love & Light,

Syl

skullerello

2nd February 2007, 04:23 PM

" vIQleS

Jan 17 2007 12:35A

Dear Sylvia,

I hope you add me as a friend. I think you are really great. I wish I had come up with such a fool-proof way of defrauding thousands of people out of millions of dollars without having to answer in court for ones crimes.
I have now become a psychic, and have started conning people - I'm not making millions yet, but thanks to your example I'm already making a lot more than when i was working for my living, and the only victims are the stupid poor people who give me the last of their savings for a 20min session, which basically just involves lying and guessing.

Thanks Sylvia.

PS. I hope that this is really you, even though its perfectly obvious that its not. Did anyone actually read the predictions? "

With his JREF Forum avatar, no less...
Very good!

Tamarillicent

2nd February 2007, 04:55 PM

I was just reading some of the comments and was amused that someone named Candace "sensed" that you weren't Sylvia.
I wonder how she sensed that?

ShowerComic

2nd February 2007, 05:27 PM

Can she sue?

well she's a public figure, so therefor open to critisism, and as too slander -- 'pretend psychic' would have to be false. (I think that's how it works). -- so take the Challenge Sylvia .

P.S. the above is completely made up, as I am not a Lawer. -- Nor do I wish to sit through 'McLibel' again to see if they made any comparison between English and American legal systems.

BPSCG

2nd February 2007, 06:50 PM

Keep the advice such that it could apply to anyone, anywhere, anytime -- such as you might find in a daily horoscope -- and keep it healthy and affirmation-filled. To wit:
Dear Just,

Go above and beyond the requirements, especially your own. Take up a team sport. Sign up for a dance class. It's time to get your feet moving and your blood pumping. Your spirits will lift accordingly.

Love & Light,

SylDear Mr. Juustin:

My name is Hugh Lewis Dewey, of the law firm of Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe. I represent Ms. Holly Golightly, who wrote to you asking for advice after breaking up with her boyfriend.

Ms. Golightly suffers from advanced, severe osteoporosis, rendering her bones quite fragile and delicate. On your recommendation, she signed up for a dance class, a completely inadvisable recommendation for someone with her medical condition.

Within minutes of her first dance lesson, Ms. Golightly's pelvis fractured from the unaccustomed strain being put on it, and, in the ensuing fall which broke her left femur, she suffered a severe concussion. She is currently hospitalized, heavily medicated for pain, and suffering blinding headaches. Her orthopedic doctors expect she will be required to go to a nursing home for at least three months of rehabilitation therapy after she is discharged from the hospital; her neurologist believes she will likely suffer the headaches for the rest of her life.

As her injuries are the direct result of her having followed your advice, we are seeking from you, on her behalf, ten million dollars in damages for pain and suffering, and another fifty million in punitive damages for offering such reckless advice.

Have a nice day! :)

Sincerely,

Hugh Lewis Dewey, Esq.

Reno

2nd February 2007, 06:56 PM

Dear Mr. Juustin:

My name is Hugh Lewis Dewey, of the law firm of Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe. I represent Ms. Holly Golightly, who wrote to you asking for advice after breaking up with her boyfriend.

Ms. Golightly suffers from advanced, severe osteoporosis, rendering her bones quite fragile and delicate. On your recommendation, she signed up for a dance class, a completely inadvisable recommendation for someone with her medical condition.

Within minutes of her first dance lesson, Ms. Golightly's pelvis fractured from the unaccustomed strain being put on it, and, in the ensuing fall which broke her left femur, she suffered a severe concussion. She is currently hospitalized, heavily medicated for pain, and suffering blinding headaches. Her orthopedic doctors expect she will be required to go to a nursing home for at least three months of rehabilitation therapy after she is discharged from the hospital; her neurologist believes she will likely suffer the headaches for the rest of her life.

As her injuries are the direct result of her having followed your advice, we are seeking from you, on her behalf, ten million dollars in damages for pain and suffering, and another fifty million in punitive damages for offering such reckless advice.

Have a nice day! :)

Sincerely,

Hugh Lewis Dewey, Esq.

Dear Mr Dewey,

My bank balance is overdrawn by £800. You are very welcome to all or any part of this. See you in court.

sincerely,

blah de blah.

Orphia Nay

2nd February 2007, 11:09 PM

Juustin, I'm not sure if it's a good idea, but if you've added the bleevers who've commented as Sylvia's myspace friends, you could send out a bulletin titled, "The Dangers of Using Psychics to Find Missing People", and quote from and link to Kelly's blog series (http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2006/03/30606-pmp-introduction-to-psychics-and.html). (If you haven't already done so.)

I repeat, I'm not sure if it's a good idea, but I thought of it in the hope that they might actually learn something, though (as shown by many of the comments) they're not too keen on reading. ;)

It might also be an idea to change "Sylvia" to "Justice for Sylvia" or something similar (like the "Justice for Killtown" myspace parody) to hopefully avoid legal wrangles.

vIQleS

3rd February 2007, 01:18 AM

Azrael 5

3rd February 2007, 02:05 AM

Oh shucks that was fun for a while.

Pipirr

3rd February 2007, 04:07 AM

Where'd she go?

Pipirr

3rd February 2007, 04:18 AM

Figured it out. The real Sylvia Browne (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=151902238) got the parody site pulled.

"Don't listen to the zombie Shawn Hornbeck!!! "

Pipirr

3rd February 2007, 04:25 AM

Myspace networks are funny. The other, also obvious and more vicious Sylvia parody site has "Natural Cures" guy Kevin Trudeau for a friend. And "Natural Cures" guy has Alex Jones in his top 12.

Natural bedfellows.

Juustin

3rd February 2007, 06:23 AM

Apparently myspace stole my thunder. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. That other fake Sylvia page is awesome though.

rjh01

3rd February 2007, 01:54 PM

Here is the link http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=151902238

OK, which one of you fans of hers created this one?

Yeah_Right

3rd February 2007, 02:43 PM

Well that site didn't last long. Good thing she doesn't have enough pull to get RS Lancaster's site deleted.

Azrael 5

3rd February 2007, 03:04 PM

Why is one site still up and not the other?

rjh01

3rd February 2007, 05:29 PM

Why is one site still up and not the other?

Maybe because they only found one site. This one only was created late January. Expect this one to be shut down in a few weeks. But we now have another weapon against psychics.

a_unique_person

4th February 2007, 03:22 AM

Goddam, I missed it. That was quick.

Fnord

8th February 2007, 05:04 PM

And here I was, just saving this letter for the MySpace Parody site...

Dear Francine,

I am a respectable psychic counselor, with a spotless reputation and a clean record. My best friends are lawyers, military officers, television producers, and police detectives. Even my son was conceived immaculately.

Lately, however, people have been criticizing me for what they claim are inaccuracies in my predictions. Some even call me a liar, of all things! I am deeply, deeply hurt by their cruel words. They have no idea how their constant badgering has wounded me and affected my health.

My feng shui therapist has tried re-arranging the chairs on my deck, but I feel an icy draft from out of the darkness. I'm getting messages that I should change course, but that would cause problems of titanic proportions. Tell me, Francine, what ever shall I do?

Signed,

The Unsinkable Mrs. Browne