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[Adje]

Originally Posted by duke knooby

27th sept is a very special day this year... a day of celebration of a great anniversary

Well it's not an anniversary yet but thank you for remembering that this is the day I'm getting married


... that is what you're talking about, right?

[duke knooby]

Originally Posted by Adje

... that is what you're talking about, right?

well, i meant arthurs day

but its a great way to celebrate your wedding and meats birthdays with a pint of black

[misterfive]

Health wise I mean he fainted on stage two years ago and he did sound pretty ill on AFL grand final. I am not saying he isn't any good but he is getting older.

[melon]

Originally Posted by misterfive

he fainted on stage two years ago

..... 2 years ago. That a long time ago, with nothing of the sort since.

For some reason my aunty thought he'd had 2 heart attacks.....

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[misterfive]

I am just worried for him, if he puts strain on himself he might die suddenly.

[Vickip]

Originally Posted by misterfive

Health wise I mean he fainted on stage two years ago and he did sound pretty ill on AFL grand final. I am not saying he isn't any good but he is getting older.

Like Mel said, two years was a long time ago, and unfortunately we're all getting older
Aside from the problem with his knees, IMHO Meat's in great shape He's healthy, energetic, sounds amazing,
and truly enjoying the shows and tour as much as we are. IMHO the breaks during the tour have also been doing
him a world of good, and I honestly don't see him slowing down any time soon.

[melon]

Originally Posted by misterfive

I am just worried for him, if he puts strain on himself he might die suddenly.

Mate, he could get hit by a bus crossing the road tomorrow.... We ALL could die suddenly, regardless of our age or what we're doing

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[CarylB]

Originally Posted by melon

Mate, he could get hit by a bus crossing the road tomorrow.... We ALL could die suddenly, regardless of our age or what we're doing

Yes .. and passing out on stage briefly when it's excessively hot, then carrying on and concluding an energetic show is hardly the sign of someone who is of fragile health! Meat has more energy and is fitter than many people half his age!

[Sebastian.]

Ordered my new personlised barclay card.

[Evil Ernie]

Originally Posted by CarylB

Yes .. and passing out on stage briefly when it's excessively hot, then carrying on and concluding an energetic show is hardly the sign of someone who is of fragile health! Meat has more energy and is fitter than many people half his age!

Didn't a 20 something Elaine Caswell pass out 3 times recording IACBTMN?

I was more scared when he left the stage and basically said he was done. Was that around 2007-2008? Being diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Having a cyst removed from his throat, not to mention all the other times that he cheated death (maybe slightly exaggerated)....

The song 'Alive' really rings true for ML.

[melon]

Wolff Parkinson white was early 2000's I think

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[CarylB]

Originally Posted by Evil Ernie

The song 'Alive' really rings true for ML.

It does. The WPWS was finally diagnosed in London in 2003 .. and he was back on the tour like a man reborn within 2 weeks. That awful night at Newcastle was in autumn 2007, at the end of an exhausting couple of years invested in Bat3, although thankfully the cyst which was at the root of the problem healed with rest and didn't need the surgery he feared it might. And he came back in better and stronger voice than he'd been for years.

Way I see it, Meat is still in an amazingly creative stage of his career, is both fit and wise, and possesses an astounding physical energy. Talk of his retirement is as premature as Mark Twain's reported demise was exaggerated

Caryl

[Adje]

The forum is awfully quiet. This should be a good time to treat us with the promised board tapes

[Evil One]

After which I will buy you some rocking horse shit.

[The Flying Mouse]

Originally Posted by Evil One

After which I will buy you some rocking horse shit.

Click

[ninja]

[QUOTE=The Flying Mouse;576925]:

lmao

[duke knooby]

much as i would love to see derren brown live... the risk of being picked from the audience is too great

[duke knooby]

and having just discovered me car has voice activation... it doesnt understand me

[Monstro]

Originally Posted by duke knooby

and having just discovered me car has voice activation... it doesnt understand me

marry it

[misterfive]

The best Steinman demo factly not in opinion is "A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste" (1985).

Why isn't it on youtube with the others?

[The Flying Mouse]

Originally Posted by duke knooby

much as i would love to see derren brown live... the risk of being picked from the audience is too great

Watched Derren Brown - Svengali, last night on the telly.

The guy who was possessed by the doll has got to be a stooge.
I'll buy into the fact that certain things are possible with the right physical routines accompanied by the correct sugestion can have bizare and amazing effects. There's a trick i've done for years (many of you may have done the same thing with your friends) where 4 people lift a person using only two fingers each. I've performed that "trick" for approx 17 years, and I still can't claim to know how it's done, just that it works when the routine and verbal instructions are stricly adhered too.

But to have the dude "possessed" and to copy the doll even when he can't see the doll and has no way of knowing what the doll is doing?

I'd love to believe it wasn't a set up, but I can't think for the life of me how he could do that without the person being possessed in on the act.

That said, I think he's a fantastic and entertaining showman.
I think he'd be worth seeing live

[duke knooby]

Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse

Watched Derren Brown - Svengali, last night on the telly.

The guy who was possessed by the doll has got to be a stooge.
I'll buy into the fact that certain things are possible with the right physical routines accompanied by the correct sugestion can have bizare and amazing effects. There's a trick i've done for years (many of you may have done the same thing with your friends) where 4 people lift a person using only two fingers each. I've performed that "trick" for approx 17 years, and I still can't claim to know how it's done, just that it works when the routine and verbal instructions are stricly adhered too.

But to have the dude "possessed" and to copy the doll even when he can't see the doll and has no way of knowing what the doll is doing?

I'd love to believe it wasn't a set up, but I can't think for the life of me how he could do that without the person being possessed in on the act.

That said, I think he's a fantastic and entertaining showman.
I think he'd be worth seeing live

i dont think it was set up, don't think he was a stooge/actor and most importantly don't believe being able to see the doll had anything to do with how it works... thats just the "staging". the important part was what derren was saying.. the suggestion, the words and phrases... and the fact he was using hypnotism (i reckon)

the most important thing is i knew which box the shoe was in every single time

[The Flying Mouse]

Originally Posted by duke knooby

the most important thing is i knew which box the shoe was in every single time

That's very interesting.
As a magician, I immediatly looked for a "magical" (for lack of a better word) solution to the trick (in fact, I think i've just cracked a way I could replicate the trick, given the proper props ).
Do you think Derrens way of doing the trick is more down to manipulation and suggestion?

Originally Posted by duke knooby

i dont think it was set up, don't think he was a stooge/actor and most importantly don't believe being able to see the doll had anything to do with how it works... thats just the "staging". the important part was what derren was saying.. the suggestion, the words and phrases... and the fact he was using hypnotism (i reckon)

What would you class Derren as? (not that it matters much)
Magician? Hypotist?

The only hypnosis I have experience in is self hypnosis (or putting Jo under to give her a good nights sleep). Although I haven't done any hypnosis for a while. But I don't think you can put someone under that quickly. If I remember rightly, when Paul McKenna had his own show it would show you him backstage before the show conditioning his volenteers for faster hypnosis.
That wouldn't tie in with Derren getting someone up at random and putting them under straight away.
Again, i'm not entirley sure what I believe as i've not any experience in stage hypotism.

Unfortunatly I think i'll laways belong to the sceptical portion of the populatin who would never believe it if it didn't happen to me.


Whatever Derren is, however you class him, he's certainly very entertaining.

[melon]

People that claim their drunk off their heads and speel lyke a tooser that pretnds ther drunk make me laugh.... I get drunk plenty.... I still spell fine.... maybe they just get influenced by Wario?

[The Flying Mouse]

Originally Posted by melon

People that claim their drunk off their heads and speel lyke a tooser that pretnds ther drunk make me laugh.... I get drunk plenty.... I still spell fine.... maybe they just get influenced by Wario?

Or me
I can type after a skinful, but it takes me a long time to do it