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From: Rob Dobson
Date: Sun Jan 19, 2003 11:22am
Subject: Re: [Derren Brown] NLP mystery solved - everyone can go home now
easily one of the best and most lovely posts on this
site in a while...thank you
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--- In a previous message jamesdavidson_99
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> Sure he also misses the delightful girlies who
used to grace us
with
> their postings.
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> JD
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Hmm, I think it's time a "delightful girly"
cleared up the whole NLP
mess (well, we are good at clearing up).
In order to do this, I consulted the first, and indeed
last, magic
book I ever read, namely The Paul Daniels Magic Annual
(1986, sadly
out of print). Back then, my clumsy female hands would
not allow me
to master the puerile tricks packaged with the book,
so I flung them
away, weeping tears of girlish frustration. As I
sobbed, I spied the
following entry in the excellent and admirably
thorough appendices,
penned by Daniels' "lovely assistant" and
wife, Debbie. I reproduce
it here with my humblest apologies to the lovely
Debbie.
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BROWN, DERREN
--see also "NLP CONTROVERSY"
Although not yet out of short trousers, Derren Brown
is well on his
way to achieving his most ambitious goal - perhaps the
most ambitious
goal a magician has ever aspired to. Soon, he will
succeed in making
a load of blokes argue on the internet about whether
NLP is a valid
science or something adults tell children about to
make them behave.
The debate will rage further - does Derren use these
controversial
methods/mumbo-jumbo or is it some sort of magnetic
device strapped
behind his ear? A standard round of the argument will
resemble the
following:
MadMagic001: Can someone please tell me how Derren
does that trick
where he makes you get off the tube and forget your
losing greyhound?
Is it NLP or some sort of magnetic device strapped
behind his ear? I
want to use it in my Butlin's routine. Thanx.
SolemnMagus: NLP!!? Don't make me laugh, mate. If you
fell for that
BS that Derren uses NLP, well sorry. I have seen many
a master
magician fall for this explanation, yes it is
seductive but there is
no way that is all he uses. NLP is a great cover
story, but if u r in
the know like me you will realise it's 999% rubbish.
He uses standard
hypnosis and a Marigold glove, look at the tape.
HypnoBoy: It is all suggestion, listen to his words!!
If you fell for
that BS that Derren doesn't use NLP, well sorry. It is
a double
bluff. If you want to take over the world, e-mail me
for details of
my course, starts next week.
Ron: HI!!!I like magnets!!
NeilWriter59: Stop posting method.
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Prophetic, eh?
If possible, please take this in the affectionate
fun-poking spirit
it was intended. If not, please be inventive.
In my defence, the worst insults to magicians seem to
come from other
magicians. I am not a magician. (The first part of the
story is
completely true.)
CG
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