Skeptics Party On Friday The 13th

Sun., March 15, 1998

From Staff And Wire Reports

Skeptics and disbelievers played ladder limbo by the light of the full moon on Friday the 13th at the Superstition Bash.

Tables in the Tunison Fire Station - which one entered beneath an open ladder - were decorated with open umbrellas, and people willingly sat beneath them.

Guests were invited to pin-the-tail on the psychic, clearly a party favorite. Blindfolded participants tried to pin the tails on a donkey with the face of Nostradamus pasted to it.

Psychic predictions collected from supermarket tabloids were lampooned.

Party organizer Jeanine DeNoma said her favorite was the prediction that Socks, the first cat, would be kidnapped and held for $1,000 ransom. The kidnapper would be caught, the psychic foretold, when he tried to abduct Vice President Al Gore’s poodle.

The party was sponsored by Oregonians for Rationality, a group formed to promote critical thinking and debunk unrealistic fears.

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