David Blaine vs. Paul Daniels: FITE!

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Who is the better magic dude? Cool, calm, collected David or grumpy firebrand Daniels?

Magic tricks: cool or lame?

― jel --, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Blaine, definitely. Who else can be buried in ice for a week, and not even mutter about the frostbite?

― Nichole Graham, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That ice cube thing was k-rub. Anyone could sit in a block of ice for several days if they had a honking great hairdryer thing continuously blowing warm air round their body.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i like that trick blaine does that the viewer can't see: we can only see his street viewers reacting

THEORY WHICH I JUST MADE UP: since magic needs a personality shtick which is basically about distraction, magicians develop stage pseudo-personalities of temporally local effectiveness only (= in effect short-term appeal). These date very quickly.

― mark s, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

buried in ice = very warm thank you, as ice is insulating so your body heat doesn't escape. it is a rubbish trick

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Providing you've got enough air between you and the ice, that is. See igloos for evidence.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

talk about my theory

― mark s, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pete did a great trick on Friday where he made a penny spin round really fast on the tip of a screwdriver. I'm sure there is a simple scientific explanation for this but for a brief moment I was impressed. Until the penny fell off and clattered on the floor and he KEPT ON DOING IT all evening.

― Emma, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Mark has got the Great Stupendo to a tee!

― jel --, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Doing the same magic trick over and over is kinda like playing a guitar at a party! hehe! (sorry couldn't resist!)

― jel --, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark, your theory stands up in general(see P Daniels D Copperfield D Blaine etc.) but stumbles somewhat when it runs into Tommy Cooper. But then I suppose his schtick was his act and the magic only something to hang it on.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Blaine's schtick is rub but I have no doubt that dandruffy nerdling magicians everywhere are psyched to have such a "sexy" representative. His buried alive thing was totally amazing, btw. I went and saw him under the West Side Highway overpass during his week of cryptification and it was spooky as hell, especially since it was raining the day I saw him. He waved weakly to everyone from under six feet of water rippling and dimpled from the steady downpour. I saw him on TV after he got out and he said that not only was his left arm totally fucked from waving with only it (and not his right arm as well) but that when he got home all his friends were like YIKES DUDE TAKE A BATH—it apparently took more than three hours of alternating hot soaks and quick showers to get the smell off. Take note, nerdlings. You must become stinkier!

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

David Blaine = dumber than a compost heap.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aren't screwdrivers tips magnetic?

― Graham, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Christ Graham, you'll get kicked out of the magic circle if you keep saying stuff like that.

― Pete, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But pennies are non-metallic so I am still impressed.

― N., Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But even with that knowledge surely only a select few have access to the secret storehouses of iron pennies??

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

non-metallic

What has Pete been telling you now?

― Graham, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't listen to him Nick. Its also true that fifty pound notes are made of pink wafers.

― Pete, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is why I have no money.

― Ally C, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

David Blaine = dumber than a compost heap.

Note I didn't say he was Einstein, though.....

― Nichole Graham, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

AWW SHIT BLAINE GOT SOME NICE DICK. LAST NIGHT HE WAS RAMMIN ME MAD FINE AND PULLED A FUCKING SNAKE OUT OF HIS MOUTH AND STARTED STIKIN IT UP MY URITHRA FOSHEEEZY SON!

― FORTIFIED ANUS HOLE, Thursday, 14 November 2002 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

He still couldn't do anything about your sticky Caps Lock button, could he?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 14 November 2002 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

AWW SHIT BLAINE GOT SOME NICE DICK. LAST NIGHT HE WAS RAMMIN ME MAD FINE AND PULLED A FUCKING SNAKE OUT OF HIS MOUTH AND STARTED STIKIN IT UP MY URITHRA FOSHEEEZY SON!
― FORTIFIED ANUS HOLE, Wednesday, November 13, 2002 11:31 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― max, Monday, 17 August 2009 01:56 (sixteen years ago)

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