Althouse: Hypnotist...

May 5, 2012

Hypnotist...

... thieves.

26 comments:

edutcher said...: Wasn't this an episode of "Wagon Train"?

Maybe "Bonanza". Was Hop Sing in it?; 5/5/12, 4:43 PM
Scott said...: You are getting sleepy...

http://youtu.be/81rQn0G66fQ; 5/5/12, 4:46 PM
sakredkow said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/5/12, 5:32 PM
Anga2010 said...: Hmph. You write that and I wonder why it's news to anyone?
otoh, thanks for warning for the unaware, tho I don't think they read your blog.; 5/5/12, 5:53 PM
yashu said...: Amazing. The fantastical plot mechanics of a farce (like Woody Allen's "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion") realized in actuality.; 5/5/12, 5:58 PM
traditionalguy said...: Until I read the article about Chinese thatpost had to be about Obama.

Obama is the hypnotist that is telling every one to put their assets into a bag and hand them over before the spell breaks.

We all have figured out that the Global warming Spell is witchcraft based on a Gaia supernatural animist power mixed with a Gnostic theology.

So did Obama learn his craft in Indonesia or in China?; 5/5/12, 6:10 PM
wyo sis said...: I suspect the social workers and case workers. It's big brother.; 5/5/12, 6:25 PM
ndspinelli said...: Kreskin has gotten very desperate.; 5/5/12, 7:01 PM
Crimso said...: "sounds a little unlikely"

"A little?" And this guy is supposedly an expert on hypnosis? My father is a self-taught hypnotist (and not a crackpot, he learned it for a very specific practical reason), and has hypnotized many people over the years. He hypnotized me once. It requires effort on the part of the person being hypnotized, a LOT of concentration. At least, that was my experience. And I was perfectly aware of everything he said.; 5/5/12, 7:30 PM
Crimso said...: Oh, and Afghanistan banana stand.; 5/5/12, 7:31 PM
bagoh20 said...: This is real. It happens to me every year mid-April. Someone somehow gets me to send the government half of all the money I made for the whole previous year. Clearly nobody in their right mind would do such a thing without being under some kind of spell or hypnotic trance. Afterward, I always remember doing it, but have no idea why, or any hint of what happens to the money. It just disappears. I know. Spooky, huh?; 5/5/12, 9:06 PM
john marzan said...: Don't look at strangers in the eye if they approach you in the streets.; 5/5/12, 10:04 PM
Carnifex said...: While I am somewhat skeptical, I've had enough weird shit happen to me that I don't discount it out of hand. Having experienced hypnotism personally, it does take a certain mind set, and personality to undergo it. And you can't be forced to murder someone like on Mattlock.

I would be more inclined to believe that maybe drugging is involved, or some sort of mass hysteria, than actual hypnosis.

Or it's vampires...they can hypnotize too.; 5/5/12, 10:04 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: Subversive.

Humor.

Better than you or I or, I dare day, showcasing ignorance whence lost in the heretofore unimagined exuberance of...

Trailer Park Boys.

You've heard.

You've, if fortune has shined kinda more than just average for even an American, which is saying something less vapid than "just sayin" hence the dumbing down theories proven true, were more than data turned to anecdotes pluralized coinciding with what J. Goldberg might phrase "Cliches."; 5/5/12, 10:33 PM
Bob Ellison said...: It is easier to get a fool and her money through the eye of a needle if you first make her stare at a pocket watch.; 5/5/12, 10:35 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: It's gettin' it's gettin' it's gettin' kinda heavy

She is off key.. but its almost imposible to find good live hip house.; 5/6/12, 12:08 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Let me Blow ya Mind

Again.. I'm not going to repeat myself.. Gwen carried the singing part.; 5/6/12, 12:25 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Don't Speak ..

My impression is that you have to pay attention in order for hypnosis to work.; 5/6/12, 12:29 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: The Mind Of Love; 5/6/12, 12:35 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: All the things she said; 5/6/12, 12:43 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Lentamente

Add mente mix slowly.; 5/6/12, 1:07 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Se Entrega el Alma; 5/6/12, 1:36 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Take My Heart; 5/6/12, 2:26 AM
Toad Trend said...: This is a job for the inimitable Jack Burton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOzFwd5DNA; 5/6/12, 6:25 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: Even more underreported are the incidents where Chinese people are forcibly hypnotized into donating their organs for the black market.; 5/6/12, 7:28 AM
Matt Sablan said...: When I read the headline, I think that Chinatown is being warned about robbing hypnotists. As in, Chinatown should not do that.; 5/6/12, 9:40 AM