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From: happany
Date: Fri Dec 6, 2002 5:46pm
Subject: Re: the blind athlete
If you imagine a typical piece of Jazz trumpeting and then 'sing' it
out loud -
Waah-Waah-Waah-Wah-Waay,
Waah-Waah-Waah-Wah-Waaaay. . .
Like if you 'sing' the theme tune to The Simpsons it would go
Daah da-da Da-daah da-da-da. . .etc
That's what I meant.
--- In a previous message Blue Chip wrote:
>
> >i.e. ' WAY - WAY - WAY - WAAH - WAY - WAAY ' ( Jazz )
>
> I have GOT to ask, why does "way way way waah way waay" make
someone think
> of Jazz??
>
> Another theory I have heard on this is that you will not get a
waitress in
> an expensive resteraunt, and you are most likely to hear Jazz in an
> expensive resteraunt.
>
> So Long,
>
> Bc >Here's the real reason why ' a waiter not a waitress '
> >led to Jazz -
> >
> >'. . . the WAI-ter comes over and takes your order,
> > now it's a WAI-ter not a WAI-tress and as he WA-lks
> > a-WAY you are a-WA-re of . . .'
> >
> >i.e. ' WAY - WAY - WAY - WAAH - WAY - WAAY ' ( Jazz )
> >
> >Or has or has everyone noticed this already ?
> >
> >
> >
> >--- In a previous message highroller entertainment casting wrote:
> > > Derren was using phonic ambiguities to subtly
> > > suggest the answers he was looking for. For
> > > example....
And I would like you to be aware
andle
would
> >like
> > > you to be aware
andlewood like you to be
> > > aware
Sandalwood like you to be aware
This is why Bob
> > > replied 'Sandalwood' as opposed to candles (the answer
> > > that Derren was trying to suggest)
Other
> > > examples were disguising 'Hereford' in 'Nowhere that you
> > > think I might guess' and 'Jazz' in 'And as the waiter
> > > walks away'.
The bits about the cat and the
> > > emphasising that it is a waiter not a waitress are merely
> > > used to distract Bob's conscious so that Derren can
> > > slip in the suggestion to his subconscious, much like
> > > the trivial questions he asked Chris Ryan about
> > > Slippers or Moccasins, or what his father's maiden name
> > > is. These are simply used to distract and mentally
> > > wrongfoot the subject.
Remember, Derren said he
> > > chose Bob because (being blind) he knew he would pay
> > > more attention to subtle shifts in his voice tonality,
> > > and Bob simply responds with what pops into his mind
> > > first, which is Derren's phonetically cloaked
> > > suggestion. Notice how suprised he is on Sandalwood....he
> > > says 'For some reason I've got Sandalwood'. It is
> > > entirely likely that he does not know what sandalwood
> > > smells like, or couldn't identify it if he were to smell
> > > it, but that is still the answer that pops into his
> > > head.
Another easily identifiable technique is the
> > > 'let's HOME IN on...' line Derren uses before asking him
> > > whether it is indoors or outdoors. Both Home and In will
> > > prompt the subject to knee-jerk response 'indoors' as
> > > opposed to 'out'.#
Let me know your thoughts on
> > > this!
Daniel
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1806: Re: the blind athlete | ganetauk | ganetauk | Fri 06/12/2002 | 5 KB |
1811: Re: the blind athlete | Blue Chip | cs_bluechip | Sat 07/12/2002 | 5 KB |
1813: Re: the blind athlete | ozric | klisher | Sat 07/12/2002 | 2 KB |