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spoon-bending ridiculousness

LovleAnjel

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I can't believe this spoon-bending stuff is still going on. Really, has none of these people ever tried to scoop cold ice cream with regular spoon?

When we went to register for our wedding, the wedding coordinator at the store pulled out samples of different silver sets, and had us physically bend them, to demonstrate the differences in strength and convince us to register for something expensive. She claimed the high-end cutlery couldn't be bent. She tried to bend it, then handed it to me, and I couldn't. My husband took it next, and while she was pulling out the china samples (for more strength tests, like standing on coffee cups and hitting plates on the desk...man, this was a great time), my husband bent the high-end spoon and put it on the desk. She turned around, and was so excited (I was half tempted to blame psychic powers) she ran out to tell her supervisor that someone had been able to bend the high-end silver! The supervisor was surprised and really excited about it, too (I think they spend a lot of time at work).

It seems so sad/hilarious that people still buy into that crap.
 
LovleAnjel said:
she ran out to tell her supervisor that someone had been able to bend the high-end silver! The supervisor was surprised and really excited about it, too
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:) I'm guessing these people probably reenact the "surprised and excited" bit with some regularity. Not to question your hubby's strength, but I can't imagine a piece of normal-sized flatware that isn't fairly readily bendable.

Silver is substantially softer than stainless steel, so I'm not sure what they were trying to sell you anyway.
 
Well, it was SS, but a higher grade than anything I've owned before (I'm calling it "silver" to denote that it's a cutlery set). My very strong hubby (we both pump iron) had to put the spoon on his thigh and put his full upper-body weight into it to bend it...it was not easy.
 
This reminds me of a joke told about Uri Geller.
That it was incredible he has made a living out of destroying cutlery.
 
I make spoons in Welding class out of Bismuth Alloy and bend them after the friction of rubbing on them comes close to 118 degrees Fahrenheit which is the melting point of one of the many types of Bismuth. they make great party favors but the Alloy that melts at 118 degrees is not food quality:-(
 
Uri Geller bends spoons using psychic powers.
The purpose for bending the spoon is to demonstrate the ability to bend a spoon.
Sometimes he has to concentrate for several minutes before anything happens.
Sometimes nothing happens.

So to sum up: Uri Geller has the power to do something that is totally useless, only he does it less quickly and with less reliability than it takes to do it by ordinary means.
 
Now if he can bent I-beams, or Angle Iron something usefully like that I'm sure his abilities would come in handy for something other then what should have been labeled "for entrainment purposes only"

I think if Uri claimed to be an illusionist from the start, super powers or no. he would have been a darn good show
 
JollyRoger said:
Now if he can bent I-beams, or Angle Iron something usefully like that I'm sure his abilities would come in handy for something other then what should have been labeled "for entrainment purposes only"
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You trying to put a hard-working American robot out of work?

 
LovleAnjel said:
my husband bent the high-end spoon and put it on the desk. She turned around, and was so excited (I was half tempted to blame psychic powers) she ran out to tell her supervisor that someone had been able to bend the high-end silver! The supervisor was surprised and really excited about it, too (I think they spend a lot of time at work).
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I think you missed the sign that said, "You bend it, you buy it". ;)
 
JollyRoger said:
Now if he can bent I-beams, or Angle Iron something usefully like that I'm sure his abilities would come in handy for something other then what should have been labeled "for entrainment purposes only"

I think if Uri claimed to be an illusionist from the start, super powers or no. he would have been a darn good show
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I believe Randi told him as much way back when. He recognized that Gellar was a good showman and so with practice had the potential to be a very successful illusionist. Unfortunately Gellar chose the fraudulent route.
 
patrick767 said:
I believe Randi told him as much way back when. He recognized that Gellar was a good showman and so with practice had the potential to be a very successful illusionist. Unfortunately Gellar chose the fraudulent route.
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Yes. In fact, I believe in Randi's book he stated something like, "Uri, we could have been friends."
 
LovleAnjel said:
desk. She turned around, and was so excited (I was half tempted to blame psychic powers) she ran out to tell her supervisor that someone had been able to bend the high-end silver!
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Oh man, it would have been great if, when she turned around, your husband had been staring intently at the spoon on the desk, his fingers at his temples... :eek:

JollyRoger said:
...they make great party favors but the Alloy that melts at 118 degrees is not food quality:-(
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But it is chock-full of minerals!
 
Oh, come on... spoon-bending can be fun!

(ok, maybe NSFW)
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