Derren Brown: Archive
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From: luise_f
Date: Mon Mar 3, 2003 10:40am
Subject: Re: losing faith.....
It's clearly a harmless homage by Dapper Daz to the Sherlock Holmes
stories,
eg
""It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the
inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the
leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they have
been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round
the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it.
Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in
vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-
slitting specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a
gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a
black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a
bulge on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has
secreted his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not
pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession."
- A Scandal in Bohemia, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
--- In a previous message darren_de_bruin wrote:
>
> Just saw the new material for the first time on friday.
> Does anybody know the difference in smell between 2 and 3 terriers?
> Also the guy said he worked as a DJ years ago so he shouldn't have
> any clues as to that job on his hands?! Its this kind of stuff
thats
> making me lose faith in Derren as a psychological mentalist. Surely
> some trickery or research of some sort was performed by the Mind
> Control crew about that guy ( probably got to his friends via an
> innocent 'survey' or 'application form' earlier).
> Did anybody else notice his great impression of Hannibal Lector
(one
> of his idols, yes he has idols too!). It was when he kept
> saying 'closer' to the guy who he couldn't persuade in the first
> experiment.
