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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

Try this out!! I'll tell you our results at the end.......

Jedi Mind Trick

This little Jedi mind trick is kinda freaky, till you think about it a little while. Then it's even more weird. Just follow the instructions below:

> >> >>DON'T scroll down too fast - do it slowly and follow the instructions below exactly, do the math in your head as fast as you can. It may help to say the answers aloud quietly.
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> >> >> The number you picked was 7, right?
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> >> >> Free will or synaptic wiring? You be the judge. Check out the following exercise, guaranteed to freak you out.There's no trick or surprise. Just follow these instructions, and answer the questions one at a time and as quickly as you can!
> >> >> Again, as quickly as you can but don't advance until you've done each of them...really. Now, ARROW down (but not too fast, you might miss something)...
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> >> >> You're thinking of a carrot right?
> >> >> If not, you're among the 2% of the population whose minds are warped enough to think of something else. 98% of people will answer with carrot when given this exercise. Freaky, huh?

Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

*Hacks this thread to itty bitty pieces*

That's for predicting that I'm predictable!

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

I thought I had you, my number was 10. But you nailed me with the Carrot.

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Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :

That makes me feel great - I'm extremely predictable!

*makes it his mission in life to eradicate the Jedi Mind Trick*

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Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :

I was done on both counts.
*mumbles something incomprehensible and walks away*

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

You fools! It's an old Jedi Mind trick!

I chose 9 and potato respectively.

So I guess i am resistant to suggestion.
This should come in handy when the body snatchers return.

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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :

I WAS thinking of a carrot, and I still have tears in my eyes as I write this. But I picked 6 in the first round.

Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :

Oh by the way, does anyone of you have weird colour associations? Back at school, German was Green, English was red, geography was green again, Spanish was yellow, Maths was red -I believe, it's been a while- Dutch was,,erm, red I think. But French was more like yellow. And Biology was reddish. Am I just weird?

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

I guess i'm wierd, too. I had 3, and zucchini.

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and a fading dream with a Mona Lisa smile
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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

Six and brocolli, or however it's spelled...

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Tarrant: "Calculated risks."
Avon: "Calculated on what? Your fingers?"
-- Blake's Seven, Ultraworld

Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

The 7 thing worked when I saw the first part of this post elsewhere a long time ago, but the vegetable I thought of was an eggplant. I understand why 7 is a common choice, but why a carrot?

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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :

Broccoli. *grin*

Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

Ahh! I've seen this before, knew what was coming, and STILL, seven was the first number that popped into my head! Go figure.

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

My answers?

Number: 9

Vegetable: (Orange! No, wait!) Tomato!

Apparently Monty and I think the same way numerically. I suppose I'm the only one to pick a fruit for a vegetable. On my second try a fraction of a second later, I managed to pick a vegetable that's technically a berry.

Go fig. Of course the rest of you probably already have me pegged as thinking so non-linearly, it would graph as a corkscrew.

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

I got 7. . . but then you're meant to. Between 12 and 5? Come on. Simple subtraction. As for vegetables, I thought courgette, which is what we call a zucchini. Hmm. . .

Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

I got 11 and lettuce respectively.

Why a carrot? I have no clue, but I was introduced to a similar test before and everyone but me said carrot. I originally said lettuce, too. Why lettuce? Don't ask me!

Anyone care to tell Jubes that 3 is not in between 12 and 5, or shall I?

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[This message has been edited by Elim Garak (edited November 01, 1999).]

Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

*wonders if curry is a vegatable*

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

I know it isn't. But that's the first number I thought of when they told me to think of a number. *LOL*

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"...when all that is driving my heart forward
is you, thoughts of you, hopes for you,
and a fading dream with a Mona Lisa smile
that whispers "are you thinking of me too?"

19 days till the dreams become reality...

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Carrots are the vegetables that most children hate the least.

As for my results, I did it outloud, like it says. For a number I got 5. For a vegetable...well, it said the first thing that came to mind.

I said people.

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

I got...

6 not 7 sorry

I then got zucchini!

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Interesting... I also said six...

Of course, on the vegetable one, my thoughts were actually "Apple! No, wait, that's not a ****ing vegetable! Pota� Wait, is that considered a vegetable? Ah, screw it... Carrot." Seriously.

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Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :

*got 6 TOO.... and, carrot. :-P* What the hell's with the number 6?!

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Six must be what all the really cool people think of... *LOL*

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

It might be because 6+6 is 12...it follows the previous progression.

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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

AAAAARGGHHH!

I don't believe I fell for this one.
My little sisters tried this one out on me on the way home from picking me up in college two Fridays ago -- I was after spending hours in a stuffy car, just recovering from a hangover and I had got eff-all sleep the night before, and I still didn't fall for it!

Damn you Lee - I'm going to do some study now I'm so annoyed.

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Posted by JEM on :

In a similar vein
(well actually it's not really anything like like Lee's but I get sent all sorts of cr*p e-mail so here you go)

1. First of all, pick the total number of people you have slept with. (Naturally this assumes that you can remember!)

2. Multiply this number by 2...

3. Add 5...

4. Multiply it by 50...

5. If you have already had your birthday this year...add 1749, if you haven't had your birthday this year...add 1748.

6.now subtract the four digit year that you were born..

If you have slept with less than 10 people see a)
If you have slept with more than 10 people see b)

a) you should have a three digit number...
the first digit...should be the number of your encounters....

the second two digits should be your age!!!

b) you should have a four digit number...
the first two digits...should be the number of your encounters....

the second two digits should be your age!!!

1999....is the only year that this will work...so pass the fun around and foward this to all your friends while the year is still here!!!

Clever eh? No I didn't think so either!

Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

You have got to be kidding me. . . works for everyone here at work. I'm also willing to bet that there isn't one person here who goes to (b), apart from me anyway. . . 8)

Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :

*o_O*

!!!

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Try this one. I learned in in fifth grade, but you'd be surprised how many older people it fools into believing you can read their minds.

It's best if you write it down each time you do a step, then come back to the next step.

1.) Pick a country that starts with D.

2.) Pick an animal that starts with the second letter in that country's name.

3.) What color is that animal?

4.) Pick another animal that starts with the LAST letter in the country's name.

5.) Pick a fruit that starts with the last letter in that animal's name.

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90% of people will get:

1.) Denmark
2.) Elephant
3.) Gray
4.) Kangaroo
5.) Orange

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Oddly enough, I learned that in fifth grade also.

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

Ok, THAT one I actually got... I flunked the others... *LOL!*

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Tarrant: "Calculated risks."
Avon: "Calculated on what? Your fingers?"
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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Denmark? You mean, it's not normal to think of Deutschland? Okay, that was the first one to come to mind, then, the first English one being the Dominican Republic.

1. Dominican Republic
2. Orca
3. Black 'n' white
4. Cow
5. Err... Is this possible?

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

Avacado.

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Avon: "You really do believe in taking risks, don't you?"
Tarrant: "Calculated risks."
Avon: "Calculated on what? Your fingers?"
-- Blake's Seven, Ultraworld

Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

*smacks forehead* Watermelon is the answer I seek; that's what I get for not thinking nomrally.

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

can ANYONE think "nomrally" ?

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"...when all that is driving my heart forward
is you, thoughts of you, hopes for you,
and a fading dream with a Mona Lisa smile
that whispers "are you thinking of me too?"

16 days till the dreams become reality...

Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

There are instances where that first puzzle doesn't work. I, for example, got only a two digit number. : )

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

1.) Djibouti
2.) Jackdaw
3.) all I know is it's some kind of bird...
4.) Iguana
5.) Apple

Actually, Even if I had thougt of Denmark, I would have thought of a kangaroo rat before a kangaroo... :-)

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

What scares me is that only two people including JEM responded to his one. Looks like me and John are the only non-virgins here. And Baloo, since he has a child. Three out of 247. . . you all need to get out more. 8)

Posted by JEM on :

Or maybe stay in more depending on your preferences.
Still, very worrying though

Hooray! Hooray! the first of May-Outdoor sex begins today!

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Uh...it appears to be the eighth of November in this corner of the solar system...

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Maybe that's by the Julian calendar? *shrug*

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