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From: Blue Chip
Date: Tue Mar 11, 2003 7:44pm
Subject: Re: [Derren Brown] Tips etc. On Doing The DB Stuff !
At 17:32 11/03/03 +0000, you wrote:
>Cool. Good infos there.. so has anyone gotten anyone to forget their
>name? I find it hard to have the nerve to try it on someone, but the
>one time I did, they just said, thats silly, as if I could forget my
>own name.. and I was like oh yeah damn... but then realised they
>didnt tell me!! So maybe they did.. who knows.. probably not though.
during the confusion induction, wait for the "glazed look" and
pick-your-nose-or-something, then when you ask them "what WAS your name"
(whilst looking at them with a glazed look in your eyes) pick your nose again.
>His mumbly patter is hard to follow, I guess its most effective to
>fill all the gaps with something to occupy them. The hand on table
>one is something I'll try a bit more, different to the planting a
>card/letter one which can be quite annoying to do.. just tried the S
>thing and failed, (probably) because I had very little eye contact..
>don't want to completely freak out the person!
You need to get that "intrigued" "fascinated" "glazed" look on their face,
get their brain in the "what" cycle.
As someone here said before. THE Biggest Clue is... that whatever I write
here will seem of interest.
>I don't think anyone here has a clue how he does the most impressive
>one, getting completely random words! He's surely not using
>suggestion or shit like that.. how can he get letters by repeating
>the phrase "now keep an absolute poker face"? Does this make them
>whisper the letters out or something? ;) I haven't a clue on this
>one...
You must listen VERY VERY carefully the intro and the gag (I really must
conclude a better word to describe the great performaces Mr Brown gives) as
performed on BBC Radio Bristol. The key to understnding is in what the
Presenter says!
>For people doing the 3 of diamonds trick, make sure you don't make a
>SPADE shape instead of a DIAMOND shape, I think its easy to mistake
>this one (I've gotten two 3 of spades responses!)
LOL - yes me too
I also have been told that Bridge players use the word "pips" in place of
the word "clubs" - so I have dropped that word too.
>Also to avoid them thinking of a card straight away, dont mention the
>card first, say "On this screen, a card starts to appear in front of
>you"...
agreed
>And how do they pick a 3? Not a 2 or a 4? I've gotten alot of people
>to pick 3 without even bothering to make a squiggly 3 shape cause
>that seems obvious, but they still usually go for a 3 (or 4).. never
>a 2!
one tip only: How many cards have spots "down the middle"?
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