At 10:17 AM -0600 2/15/01, Paul Smith wrote:
>Jeff Ricker quoted Michael Shermer:
>> For example, Morgana was looking at
>> a photograph of a couple embracing, and N'Kisi allegedly says "Can I
>> give you a hug?" THAT was counted as a hit. Of course, we are not told
>> how often N'Kisi blurts out that particular phrase,
>
> My earlier comment may have been lost on folks who don't follow
>Major League Baseball. On Opening Day, a rather top-heavy blond woman named
>"Morgana" runs out onto the field somewhere, hugs and kisses a coach or
>player or umpire. She is known as "Morgana, the kissing bandit". As far as I
>know, this is just something that she does on her own (for attention), not a
>publicity piece for a company.
Is she still active?
I recall her starting her career at least 20 years ago!
> For that reason, on top of the (terribly) incomplete data problem,
>I'm a little suspicious that this might be some kind of a intentional hoax
>(with Sheldrake the victim). The "Comedy Central" connection makes that a
>bit more likely. Of course, it could very well not be the same Morgana, in
>which case that little coincidence just increases the background likelihood
>that the parrot would have tended to make the cited responses (that is,
>regardless of what the "target" was - making the incomplete data problem
>even more problematic).
Of course, "Morgana" is a name for a sorceress/seer that goes back to the
Arthurian legends. I suspect that there are a lot of them around. An
Internet search turned up a few of them (psychics named Morgana).
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