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1. 10 can’t be real. i can give to the possibility of some people trying some of the other numbers at some point in history but 10 cannot be real.

   posted by Claire on 7-7-2008 at 2:55 pm

2. Ah but Claire..have you not looked at a piece of cheese and predicted what it might do to your digestion if you ate it?
   ;)
   Why is the “Oompa Loompa” song in my head?

   posted by mrs.djs on 7-7-2008 at 3:43 pm

3. I looked it up and sure enough - Tiromancy is a form of divination that seeks to know the future by examining how curds form during cheesemaking. Also spelled tyromancy.
   It is commonly referred to as the art of divining the future through the study of mouldy cheese.

   posted by Kelly on 7-7-2008 at 4:11 pm

4. Great Post!

   Here’s some more I just cut and pasted from someone’s website:

   “acultomancy divination using needles
   aeromancy divination by means of the weather
   ailuromancy divination by watching cats’ movements
   alectormancy divination by sacrificing a rooster
   alectryomancy divination by watching a rooster gather corn kernels
   aleuromancy divination using flour or meal
   alomancy divination using salt
   alphitomancy divination using loaves of barley
   alveromancy divination using sounds
   ambulomancy divination by taking a walk
   amniomancy divination by examining afterbirth
   anthomancy divination using flowers
   anthracomancy divination using burning coals
   anthropomancy divination using human entrails
   apantomancy divination using objects at hand
   arithmancy divination using numbers
   armomancy divination by examining one’s shoulders
   aspidomancy divination by sitting and chanting within a circle
   astragalomancy divination using dice or knucklebones
   astromancy divination using stars
   austromancy divination using wind
   axinomancy divination using an axe or hatchet
   batraquomancy divination using frogs”

   As for the cheese-o-mancy, of course its true. Apparently it works by offering pieces of cheese to a rat, rodent, or other cheese-eating animal, with each piece of cheese being the represention of something else. Logically, the first piece of cheese the rat ate would be your fate. Or maybe its the last piece….. Either way, its your fate.

   posted by Florida on 7-7-2008 at 4:20 pm

5. You can’t beat: ANOMANCIA (anusmancy)

   “I said the consulted should sit in a photocopier/Xerox. In the sheet of paper his/her ass-hole would appear. The fortune teller would then read on the folds of the orifice. The most deep wrinkles represent the past. The most superficial wrinkles represent the future. If spots would appear they would not be objects of reading but dirt.”

   (I’m not inventing it)

   posted by nADIE on 7-7-2008 at 4:43 pm

6. I imagine the prediction you come up with during gyromancy will usually be, “I’m going to fall over.”

   posted by Matt on 7-7-2008 at 5:17 pm

7. it’s boring

   posted by nicazzo on 7-8-2008 at 8:04 pm

8. LOL, Works for me. Now if we could just Get Dictator Bush out of office.

   www.FireMe.To/udi

   posted by Jim Jones on 7-8-2008 at 8:26 pm

9. Don’t forget ‘Science.’ Y’know, the only such method that ever produced results at better than chance.

   posted by David G. on 7-8-2008 at 8:29 pm

10. Gastromancy is what I do to predict the future. Just hope I didn’t eat, or else I won’t have a future.

    posted by ComplexSearch on 7-8-2008 at 9:27 pm

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