When Sylvia Browne met James Randi

I like how the face on the Erlenmeyer flask looks like a scarey verison of the one on the Kool-Aid jug.

My question is why she had to ask, who's your friend?

Questions to ask Sylvia;
Does Sylvia answer knock knock jokes with, who's there?
Does Sylvia have an answering machine?

On and on and on........

Wouldn't she be required to know the person's questions in advance? If they have to ask, how can she be psychic.

I bear her no ill will, but only because the line is much too long.

Ever wonder what would happen if mendacious fake "psychic" Sylvia Browne ever met The Amazing Randi?

...well, no, because it's already happened. With much the same results, actually.

Today's The Guardian has a story--including a short interview--with Brown, Is She for Real?:

Sylvia Browne is famous for telling distraught parents where their missing children are - but she gets it wrong. A lot. So why does she still have such a massive following? Jon Ronson took a cruise with America's most controversial psychic to find out

It's rather good, mentioning stopsylviabrowne.com; discusses cold calling and some of the other tricks Brown uses; Randi (but doesn't mention the million dollar challenge); several examples (both on the cruise and from the past) of Brown getting being astonishingly mean, nasty, and/or making abusrd claims; and so on. For instance:

[T]here is no doubt that she makes a fortune saying very serious, cruel, show-stopping things to people in distress, especially, it seems, when she's in a grumpy mood.

g/\<Brown\>/s//Browne/g

(Geek-speak for I meant Browne, not Brown.)