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Subject: Re: The Amazing Kreskin has died
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:22:03 -0500
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On 12/11/2024 11:18 PM, super70s wrote:
> On 2024-12-12 03:55:37 +0000, Rhino said:
> 
>> The Amazing Kreskin was shown on Canadian TV for a time several 
>> decades ago. I remember watching it once and being pretty skeptical of 
>> him, as I am of all such people. Not long later, there were rumours 
>> circulating that he was a fake and that his signature glasses actually 
>> hid a secret earpiece where a confederate could whisper things into 
>> his ears that let him seem amazing.
>>
>> Apparently, his real name was George Kresge Jr and he has died at age 89.
>>
>> I thought I'd mention that since no one else had.
>>
>> https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/george-kresge-jr-who-wowed-talk- 
>> show-audiences-as-the-the-amazing-kreskin-dies-at-age-89-1.7142030
> 
> Wonder if he was able to foretell it.

Sure.  Just not where, when, or how...