Derren Brown: Archive
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From: nxnzerx
Date: Fri May 9, 2003 1:09pm
Subject: Re: You're all very attractive...
"The Worlds Most Expensive Card Trick" hohohohoh :)
--- In a previous message, dale_kingstons_world_of_art
wrote:
> > It appears, any explanation that Derren offers is a huge fat lie
> > designed to cause convoluted discussion in groups like this one.
>
> Some lies are even fatter than anyone can imagine.
>
> Advertising agency scam anyone? That reminded me of the time Penn
> and Teller went to Picadilly Circus and did a card trick where
> someone took a card from the deck, Penn did a "perfect fan" of
> cards, one of the cameras sent a freeze frame of the cards to a
> computer which then worked out which card was missing and
displayed
> the result on a billboard so that Penn could read it and inform
the
> punter which card he took out.
>
> If the audience feel like they are being let in on the devious and
> complex method that is being used to get one over on someone then
> they are never going to question that that is what indeed
happened.
> This is such a beautiful way of presenting a trick, but oh, SUCH a
> naughty thing.
| Replies | Author | Yahoo! ID | Date | Size |
| 5265: Derren in Hastings tonight! | Kirsty Smith | ksasmith | Fri 09/05/2003 | 2 KB |
| 5266: Re: Derren in Hastings tonight! | Derek | derek_heron | Fri 09/05/2003 | 3 KB |
| 5267: Re: Derren in Hastings tonight! | nxnzerx | nxnzerx | Fri 09/05/2003 | 3 KB |
