October 20, 2005

• "up the duff" means something entirely different here in the States... *Cleaning up coffee around desk*
• That'd be the only way he'd make a woman pregnant since he'd never stick his penis in one.
• How in the world would one go about convincing anyone some magic has been done? Is the fucking stick going to turn red, and then blue (or however those pregnancy tests work)? This sounds rather silly.
• This makes no business sense at all. The old-fashioned method guarantees a bigger audience (counting pay-per-view) and more money.
• I wonder if he's taking volunteers from the audience?
• Naturally it will be without sex Heh.
• "How in the world would one go about convincing anyone some magic has been done?" He does an ultrasound of the woman, and the foetus appears on screen - holding the chosen card of a volunteer from a previous trick. (It's actually not a new part of his act, just new to the Poms, I think)
• I like that. If he can get the foetus to hold a card, then I am buying a damn ticket.
• This will confuse a generation of children as to where babies come from...
• Ha ha ha! He'll have to catch 'em pretty early in Blighty for that to happen!
• Oops. Sorry about that, Poms.
• sometimes I feel like I have no idea what's going on.
• bernockle - brilliant. fetal humor never fails to entertain. well, me anyhoo.
• "Hello, Roy? This is David Blaine. Listen, I have some ideas for a possible collaboration. If you and Siegfried could join me for lunch tomorrow..?"
• Apparently he's been doing this act a while. And (*magic spoiler warning*) since there are multiple reports of the "randomly selected" woman grabbing his butt and him making a joke about the name not being "Cop-a-feel," at least part of the act seems to rest on a confederate. I thought this info was posted on MeFi but can't seem to find it now.
• dr.tchock -- While I do not like to discourage people from calling me brilliant, I should point out that the joke concerning a fetus holding a card was chyren's, not mine.
• Well, I sure *hope* he's using an audience plant -- if I were some randomly-selected girl who got knocked-up in the name of "magic", I'd be pissed! (Sounds like a pretty evil superpower...)
• It's all in the world . . of Illusion! /Doug_Henning
• /Doug_Henning Man, talk about your ultimate Where Are They Now? Has he been seen since 1986?
• Christians have been talking about this trick for 2000 years.
• Doug Henning died in 2000... ...or was it just an illluuuusssiiiooonnn?
• (Sounds like a pretty evil superpower...) Alright coppers, you all just stand the fuck back! I'll do it. I'll fucking impregnate her. Don't think I won't. I'll impregnate this bitch so hard, she'll go straight into labor!
• So offically, rocket88 is going to hell. And so am I, for laughing at that.
• Quoth Wikipedia: Later, he abandoned his performance art in favour of studying transcendental meditation which, he claimed, enabled him to levitate. He also ran in the 1993 federal election in Canada as a candidate for the Natural Law Party of Canada, which proposed yogic flying as a solution to the problems of the nation. (As the party's most famous candidate, he was so prominently featured in their television ads that many voters mistakenly thought he was the party's leader. The party was in fact led by Dr. Neil Paterson.) One of Henning's greatest ambitions was never realized in his lifetime. In the 1990s Henning joined forces with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to draft plans for a fantastical billion-dollar project called Vedaland that was to "combine astonishing, unique visual and sensory effects, state-of-the-art 3D imagery, and ultra high-tech entertainment technology with his best and most original magic illusion secrets."¹ Vedaland was conceived as a magical Himalayan setting where visitors would be wowed with theatrical presentations of ancient Vedic stories and "the deepest secrets of the universe", while munching on organic vegetarian burgers and snacks. Well, I did not know that.
• Heck, I would have gone.
• Ah, Doug Henning's natural law ads: "If I can make an elephant disappear, I can make the deficit disappear!" That's not a trick. If the fetus sawed the woman in half from the inside, that'd be a trick. Or just really, really horrifying.
• I can saw A woman in two But you won't want to look In the box when I'm through -- Warren Zevon, "For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer"
• "How in the world would one go about convincing anyone some magic has been done?" I wondered about that myself, bernockle, but then it occured to me that the woman would presumably go from being thin and without child to quite full and ripe with a third trimester baby. Whether that's accomplished with identical twins or makeup or stage illusions, I don't know, but that would be the easiest way to 'impregnate a woman' with visible results. Anything less, such as ultrasound, is too easily manipulated to be believable by an audience. Just a guess, I'm welcome to other suggestions.
• sometimes I feel like I have no idea what's going on. posted by petebest at 06:34PM UTC on October 20, 2005 Well, Pete, let's start from the beginning. First you have a man and a woman, and then the man takes out his "magic wand" and then... Ah, never mind. Here's a pork chop. Go play with the dog.
• Yes!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!! *runs out back door, knocking over chair on the way*
• "Up the duff"...I'm still laughing.
• Teen pleads guilty to trying to rob illusionist David Copperfield "He said in depositions that he had things on him, but it wasn't difficult to make it seem like there was nothing there," prosecutor Sherri Collins said. Illuuusion!! "Terrance was remorseful for what occurred, has told the truth about his involvement and would like everything to disappear," Well, David Copperfield might have helped you with that, if you hadn't tried to rob him!
• WTF, David?