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Asparagus mystic offers tips for the future
« on: March 13, 2008, 07:48:46 AM »
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A fortune-teller has claimed she can divine people's futures by using asparagus

Jemima Packington, who likes to call herself the UK's only "asparamancer", has been testing out her technique at the British Trade and Travel Fair at Birmingham's NEC.

   
Jemima Packington of Worcestershire makes a prediction after throwing asparagus stalks onto the floor
Ms Packington, from Worcester, throws the asparagus spears onto the floor and makes her predictions based on how they land.

She says she stumbled across her asparagus-predicting skills a few years ago by chance, after some stalks fell on the floor and she made a prediction which came true.

She told BBC News: "I can't even remember what prediction I made when I was young but my family went very quiet and it came true and the rest is history."

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/12/nasparagus112.xml

That's one the DU Astro forum hasn't thought of yet.  :-)