George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[PB the Deplorable]

... George said that they will be clearing out the stuff at the "c2c store" to make room for more stuff.  Good riddance, it was all a bunch of crap anyway.

[Lovely Bones]

Having said that, to be treated to a nationally broadcast discussion on par with the discussion I had with a four year old makes me want to weep. 

George is also a linguistic specialist, WOTR, so let me correct you.  I think he'd tell you it's "to wept."

Marzulli: The first time I saw the shroud, I wept.

Simple George: I felt the same way you did, L.A.  I didn't wept, but I got goosebumps and chills. 

[Lovely Bones]

Now the Birthers will have to change all of their 'DEPORT  OBAMA' bumper stickers and coffee mugs to 'TELEPORT OBAMA.'  Their logic will be, why send him to another country when we can get his azz to Mars.

I'm going with Avi's "Teleprompt Obama" bumper sticker. 

[VtaGeezer]

Please excuse the post-whoring, but I just heard a classic out-of-left-universe Noory question. Re the Shroud of Turin, but appropos of absolutely nothing rational he and Marzulli had talked about other than resurrection, George asks in substance "What if many people could do this back then (somehow resurrect their own dead body)?"

... it has to be one of the most asinine, ridiculous questions asked in the entire history of radio.

That remark by Noory did mark a new level of outrageousness in his pandering to the goofballs. It's quite probably the stupidest thing ever said in public in the context of the Shroud of Turin. It's because he must discuss the Shroud as a generic paranormal object; not as the deeply Christian relic that it is, lest he offend the cracked-pots and New Agers whose money provides the kick-backs from his growing cadre of "alternative reality" scammers.  He was showing the crystal skull  crowd  that belief in the Shroud can be separated from belief in Christ.

[Morgus]

Just back from his long annual week holiday vacation, Noory last night mentioned he was taking the next couple nights off to fly and attend some wedding.
Then he said that will be it for his vacations until next December - thats assuming the Mayan calendar end date of Dec 21, 2012 doesn't alter his plans? 

Anyway, we now get a full 4-day Noory-Free special weekend - time to celebrate... 

[WOTR]

George is also a linguistic specialist, WOTR, so let me correct you.  I think he'd tell you it's "to wept."

Marzulli: The first time I saw the shroud, I wept.

Simple George: I felt the same way you did, L.A.  I didn't wept, but I got goosebumps and chills.

Thank you LB.  I find it so hard to keep up with the living language that is English.  Each year the Oxford dictionary adds scores of new words.  Each hour George modifies / mangles dozens more.  Where is a person to start when it comes down to knowing the most up to date use / pronunciation of words?

[astroguy]

In some fairness, doing a live radio show is not easy and you're bound to mispronounce words, use wrong tenses, etc.  I find myself doing it in a half-hour podcast.

[BobGrau]

In some fairness, doing a live radio show is not easy and you're bound to mispronounce words, use wrong tenses, etc.  I find myself doing it in a half-hour podcast.

perhaps, but are you being paid to be a so-called professional radio host?

[Sardondi]

Valdez, your pic wins lulz from me. Wonderful!

[SarahJo83]

Did anybody catch the recent guest host that kept referring to the Nazca lines as the Nascar lines??!!

[Morgus]

Did anybody catch the recent guest host that kept referring to the Nazca lines as the Nascar lines??!!

yeah that was commented on before in the thread for guest host Rob Simone who is also hosting tonight i believe.

[Sardondi]

That remark by Noory did mark a new level of outrageousness in his pandering to the goofballs. It's quite probably the stupidest thing ever said in public in the context of the Shroud of Turin. It's because he must discuss the Shroud as a generic paranormal object; not as the deeply Christian relic that it is, lest he offend the cracked-pots and New Agers whose money provides the kick-backs from his growing cadre of "alternative reality" scammers.  He was showing the crystal skull  crowd  that belief in the Shroud can be separated from belief in Christ.

Yes. Although if by some miracle the shroud could be definitively authenticated, it automatically becomes relevant to everyone.

Me, I'm a fence-sitter on the legitimacy of the cloth. I was not conclusively convinced by the latest Italian attempt at debunking, just as I wasn't convinced before that the shroud is legitimate. But since I am a believer in the event it purportedly records, I also believe the cloth could be real.

It's just that, particularly in the Middle Ages and through the Renaissance, there was a huuuge financial market for any supposed physical remnants of Biblical events, and Europe was awash with so-called "true relics" of this and that. Then, I presume, the Roman Catholic Church conceivably would have had a religious motive for commissioning such a work as the shroud, in order to bring new converts to The Church or to bolster the faith of the already faithful. So there most certainly would have been a strong motive to create something like the shroud.

Then there's the appearance of the shroud itself. It can seem "too perfect", without "wrinkle", and not what you'd expect from a body wrapped in a cloth. Also, to me the image on the shroud appears artificial, not like it came from life. But then, if legitimate, it would be evidence of a literal miracle of God, and perfection is less surprising.

What to make of the fact no one today can perfectly recreate the imaging process with modern methods (the recent Italian claim notwithstanding)? They most certainly cannot recreate the image with what materials and processes were available in the 14th century. No one can supply a good answer about how it was faked without a physical application of tint, and 5 centuries before photography was first accomplished. While there are other claimed partial shrouds of Jesus (the "Sudarium of Oviedo" "face shroud" in particular), none of them, AFAIK, appear to have been created by the same process as that used in the Turin shroud. And I don't  think there are any other examples of this kind of artistic process, if that is what it is. Thus it seems hard to believe that the genius who conceived and executed such a brilliant and unique work of art would have never in his entire life used it again, whether for relic or religious or secular art. 

Now, if this latest testing shows, conclusively, that the cloth is indeed no older than 700 years, I think it badly cripples, if not kills outright, the argument for legitimacy of the shroud of Turin...but only the shroud of Turin. It does not mean the event didn't happen: it just means this purported relic is not evidence of the event. As for me, that a faked shroud might exist is completely irrelevant to my personal faith that the underlying event occurred.

It's just great fun to wonder whether we have a physical remnant of a divine miracle, which prospect would be mind-boggling and world-changing; or just a highly sophisticated artistic process discovered by an unknown master, breathtakingly advanced for it's day, which was mysteriously used one time and one time only.

(Man, I'm sorry for all the pixels that had to die for this post. I promise I'm gonna cut back on post length real soon. Tomorrow. I'm gonna kick tomoooooorrow.)

[Treading Water]

(Man, I'm sorry for all the pixels that had to die for this post. I promise I'm gonna cut back on post length real soon. Tomorrow. I'm gonna kick tomoooooorrow.)

I, for one, am enjoying all your posts.  Long or short, they're always interesting.   

[PB the Deplorable]

That remark by Noory did mark a new level of outrageousness in his pandering to the goofballs. It's quite probably the stupidest thing ever said in public in the context of the Shroud of Turin...

I've heard George Noory refer to it as the Shroud of Urine on 3 separate shows.  Stupid, lazy, thoughtless, clueless, unprofessional, I picture George and Dumbheiser sitting at the bar in the Greek restuarant all evening yukking it up, telling each other shroud of urine jokes, with George coming on the air later and - not able to ever get anything right anyway - unable to manage to say it correctly.

Oh, but he's such a nice man and means well and all that... right?

[TaoOfLuxLisbon]

Now the Birthers will have to change all of their 'DEPORT  OBAMA' bumper stickers and coffee mugs to 'TELEPORT OBAMA.'  Their logic will be, why send him to another country when we can get his azz to Mars.

Being that George still entertains the birther nonsense and frequently quotes World Nut Daily as his trusted news source, you're more correct than you think.

Noory taking some more time off, eh? Maybe his father's death got him to think he should live life more.

[Agent : Orange]

Does anyone have links to the youtube clip where Simple George calls it the Shroud of Urine? I've seen them before but was unable to find then again on youtube. Thanks.

[Morgus]

I've seen them before but was unable to find then again on youtube.

Noory probably had them all removed from youtube, claiming copyright infringement or something... 

[astroguy]

perhaps, but are you being paid to be a so-called professional radio host?

That I am not.

[VtaGeezer]

Yes. Although if by some miracle the shroud could be definitively authenticated, it automatically becomes relevant to everyone.

The Shroud can never be authenticated beyond age and perhaps origin.  The carbon 14 tests of 25 years ago have too many questions tainting the result.  I think definitive testing technology will soon resolve it.  But whom it enshrouded can never be empirically proven.  For me, the issue isn't the Shroud's origin, but Noory's boorish reducing of the very basis of Christianity, the Resurrection,  to an absurd question. 

[Sardondi]

Right again.

[WOTR]

...It does not mean the event didn't happen: it just means this purported relic is not evidence of the event. As for me, that a faked shroud might exist is completely irrelevant to my personal faith that the underlying event occurred.

(Man, I'm sorry for all the pixels that had to die for this post. I promise I'm gonna cut back on post length real soon. Tomorrow. I'm gonna kick tomoooooorrow.)

Don't cut back on the posts... I love reading a posts that are well thought out and put together...

[Lovely Bones]

  Each hour George modifies / mangles dozens more. 

Ain't that the truth!

[Lovely Bones]

In some fairness, doing a live radio show is not easy and you're bound to mispronounce words, use wrong tenses, etc.  I find myself doing it in a half-hour podcast.

Sure, Astroguy.  I taught for 30 years.  It's easy to get your tongue tied around itself when you're talking for 3 or 4 hours straight.  But I don't recall it ever happening that I didn't immediately correct myself when it did.  I don't think Simple George listens to himself, much less to his guests and callers, which is why he says crap like, "Good point!" when no one has made a point or "Well, that's true" when a guest posits some hypothetical. 

Given the overall picture, I don't expect he hears himself say something like, "I didn't wept" or "The Shroud of Urine." 

No excuses for Noory.  He's just not particularly bright. 

[Lovely Bones]

I've heard George Noory refer to it as the Shroud of Urine on 3 separate shows.  Stupid, lazy, thoughtless, clueless, unprofessional, I picture George and Dumbheiser sitting at the bar in the Greek restuarant all evening yukking it up, telling each other shroud of urine jokes, with George coming on the air later and - not able to ever get anything right anyway - unable to manage to say it correctly.

Oh, but he's such a nice man and means well and all that... right?

Such a nice man.

The other night during his little news segment, he intro'd one piece saying it would make animal lovers happy.

Then he told, in excruciating detail, the story of a cat three times put to death before the shelter stopped trying to kill the poor thing. 

Nothing wrong with overall story.  But Georgie was groovin' to the details, which I won't repeat here. 

[BobGrau]

Such a nice man.

The other night during his little news segment, he intro'd one piece saying it would make animal lovers happy.

Then he told, in excruciating detail, the story of a cat three times put to death before the shelter stopped trying to kill the poor thing. 

Nothing wrong with overall story.  But Georgie was groovin' to the details, which I won't repeat here.

no doubt this has been said already, but - shouldn't they have tried another 7 times? Quitters.

[PB the Deplorable]

... The other night during his little news segment, he intro'd one piece saying it would make animal lovers happy.

Then he told, in excruciating detail, the story of a cat three times put to death before the shelter stopped trying to kill the poor thing...

Georgehas claimed to be an animal lover himself, mant times.  This is usually followed by some made up personal story that both doesn't ring true, and suggests the opposite.

To say this will make animal lovers happy, then go on into the awful details shows once more Geroge Noory just does not understand people.  These little 'tells' suggest he hasn't been around people much, and that he probably doesn't have any real friends.  Comments like 'I didn't wept', and so many others suggest he doesn't really talk to people, read, or even listen much at all

[PB the Deplorable]

Looks like someone has fixed George's Wikipedia page again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Noory

Before someone at PremRat reads this post and changes it back, here is one segment:

On-air style

Noory is known among his fans for his frequent malapropisms, non-sequiturs and mispronunciations, often misplacing the stress on syllables and words while reading news copy, or completely misreading copy. For instance, following an attack on cognitive scientist Rupert Sheldrake in April 2008, in which Sheldrake was non-fatally stabbed in the leg, Noory reported that Sheldrake had been "stabbed to death in the leg."[4] Fans and critics have compiled long lists of "nooryisms," documenting his unique broadcasting style.[5] In an article about Noory published in the respected news magazine The Atlantic, Timothy Lavin wrote that "Noory can be an uneven broadcaster, sometimes seems to not pay full attention to his guests, offers strangely obvious commentary, and often lets clearly delusional or pseudoscientific assertions slide by without challenge."[6] According to Media Life Magazine, "Noory says it doesn’t matter whether he believes what his callers and guests say. Ultimately, it's about entertainment, creating a show that people will be drawn to."[7] Author and frequent Coast to Coast AM guest Whitley Strieber (who claims that a device was implanted in his ear in 1989 by invaders who entered his home dressed in black)[8] has commented on Noory's style, asserting "It's not that he's credulous or easily led. He's willing to take these intellectual journeys. He'll have guests on that you think are completely off the wall -- nothing they're saying is real -- but by the end of the program you will have made a discovery that there is a kernel of a question worth exploring." George currently backs glutton and numerologist Glynis McCants, the gigantasaurus who is in danger of eating all of the North American continent. [9]

[Agent : Orange]

George currently backs glutton and numerologist Glynis McCants, the gigantasaurus who is in danger of eating all of the North American continent.

LOL

Love how that ended!

[PB the Deplorable]

And LOL, since some of the references lead to CoastGab, very nice work - anyone want to confess?

References

   ^ "George Noory - Coast to Coast AM". http://www.coasttocoastam.com/pages/george-noory. Retrieved December 31, 2011.
^ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/NISCO+AND+NORCOM+ENTERTAINMENT+SIGN+LETTER+OF+INTENT-a014939760
^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_v21/ai_4607775/
^ http://www.coastgab.com/index.php?topic=2636.0
^ http://www.coastgab.com/index.php?topic=3.0
^ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/01/the-listener/7840/3/?single_page=true
^ http://www.medialifemagazine.com/News2005/sep05/sept12/1_mon/news3monday.html
^ http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/21/entertainment/la-ca-george-noory21-2010feb21
^ http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/21/entertainment/la-ca-george-noory21-2010feb21

[PB the Deplorable]

Holy crap, the part about him opening a restaurant in Brentwood appears to be true.  Very Noorish to start up a restuarant with a theme few are familiar with.

As Restaurateur
According to an article in Nation's Restaurant News, Noory and his partners in Norcom Restaurants opened a restaurant, Cafe Marrakesh and Oasis Bar, in Brentwood, Mo. in 1987. The restaurant's theme revolved around a fictional Englishman named Col. William Berry, who opened a restaurant following an exciting secret mission to Marrakesh.[3]

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_v21/ai_4607775/