Blaine's at it again

Frozzy · August 21, 2003, 03:24

http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_det...96-1-9,00.html

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American magician David Blaine, dubbed "the modern day Houdini," is to be suspended in a glass box over the River Thames in London for more than six weeks without food.

The flamboyant, 30-year-old New Yorker, famed for spectacular stunts atop poles and frozen in ice, is to be hauled into solitary confinement on September 5 in what he called "the most extreme exercise in isolation and physical deprivation ever attempted."

Against the backdrop of London's Tower Bridge, he will spend 44 days suspended by a crane in his clear plexi-glass box "with no food, no communication and no distractions of any kind."

He will have one tube to give him water and another for urinating.

"We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe," Blaine said as details were released of his endurance test that will be carried live on British television.

This is the first time that Blaine, who rose to fame with his "street magic" displays in New York, has ever attempted a major stunt outside the United States.

He has endured being entombed in a block of ice for 61 hours, has been buried for a week and spent 35 hours standing on the top of an 80-foot pillar in midtown Manhattan.

Methinks this is a step too far.

st_swithin · August 21, 2003, 03:53

Blaine's a pain.

FrustratedPoet · August 21, 2003, 04:45

This guy's a complete moron. Does he think this stuff impresses people?

I thought he was supposed to be a magician anyway. Sitting in a box for 6 weeks feeling hungry is a pretty lame form of magic.

Although obviously not very healthy, it's still quite possible for someone to survive 6 weeks without food as long as they have water. One imagines that poor starving people in Africa have to cope with that rather frequently. Where's the trick in what Blaine is doing? I'd like to see him get AIDS and have crazy revolutionaries shoot machine guns at him occasionally to really round out the starving black-guy image..

BustaMike · August 21, 2003, 05:02

Blaine

Whoooooooooooooo Cares!

FrustratedPoet · August 21, 2003, 05:23

I think he has serious mental problems.

Self-harm as a means of seeking attention is rightly seen as a cause for great concern when it's done by poor little teenage girls with razorblades. However, when some celebrity 'magician' does it he's described as "flamboyent" and "spectacular".

That's sick.

Skanky Burns · August 21, 2003, 05:35

Sitting in a box for 6 weeks is hardly entertaining, either. I would rather see someone produce flowers from their sleeve or spontaneously combust, but a box is boring.

Spiffor · August 21, 2003, 07:43

Will he be naked ? This way, seeing his body evolve under hunger will sure bring some entertainment

C0ckney · August 21, 2003, 08:08

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"We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe," Blaine said as details were released of his endurance test that will be carried live on British television.

i can't wait. what great telly that will be, just imagine.

commentator #1 'and here as we enter the 10th hour of the third day of this amazing feat one has to say that today hasn't quite reached the great heights of entertainment reached yesterday when sources indicates that david may have farted, wouldn't you say bob'

commentator #2: 'well i'd have to agree with you there john, yesterday afternoon was certainly a high point for the fans and indeed us in the commentary box, and i don't today has quite come up to that stand...oh wait hang on, something's happening, hmm, can we get a closer look. yes! there it is he's unzipping his fly and i think he's about to...yes there it is he's taking a slash, well there we were talking about the lack of action today and he goes and pulls that out on us...'

commentator #1: 'quite literally bob...well i think it just goes to show that you just don't know what to expect with this man...'

FrustratedPoet · August 21, 2003, 08:38

Although, no doubt some foreign wag will soon appear to say that if the English can spend 5 days watching cricket they should be able to find entertainment in spending 6 days watching a Yank piss into a tube.

Spiffor · August 21, 2003, 08:43

Can I be the foreign wag ?

FrustratedPoet · August 21, 2003, 08:47

Oh very well. If you must.

Whaleboy · August 21, 2003, 08:48

If he can pull it off, my admiration for him will hit new heights. Needless to say, he's going to get killed (unless theres something in the water).

What if it gets really hot? It'll be like a greenhouse?!!

And even assuming this is all ok, a man has "other" needs and 6 weeks will be tough. For anyone thats tried 40 days and 40 nights, the only thing that keeps you going is stuff to do, which will be sorely lacking in a glass box!

FrustratedPoet · August 21, 2003, 08:56

If he needs protein to keep him going he could always eat his ejaculate. Sometime these things need to be done when you're in a survival situation.

lightblue · August 21, 2003, 08:59

Hmm, wouldn't his "wells" run dry after awhile though as he's only recycling the protein?

JohnT · August 21, 2003, 08:59

Thanks, FP. I will never be able to look at David Blaine the same way again.

Whaleboy · August 21, 2003, 09:01

How many calories are in that stuff? I need to lose some weight...

I suppose he'll be ok for 6 weeks... he wont exactly be healthy, but he'll be alive - no need for desperate measures. Still the water could be spiked with something.

I guess he must be pretty good at meditation... and he has presumably practised going without food for so long.

Asher · August 21, 2003, 09:17

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Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
If he needs protein to keep him going he could always eat his ejaculate. Sometime these things need to be done when you're in a survival situation.

They can also be done in other situations.

Whaleboy · August 21, 2003, 09:24

I think I'll stick to cheese and tomato sandwiches Asher..

FrustratedPoet · August 21, 2003, 09:55

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Originally posted by Asher

They can also be done in other situations.

As yo' mama so ably demonstrated for me the other day.

Spiffor · August 21, 2003, 10:53

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Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
As yo' mama so ably demonstrated for me the other day.

She drank her own ejaculate ?

FrustratedPoet · August 21, 2003, 10:56

st_swithin · August 21, 2003, 23:56

I like a really good MLT - you know, mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, with a little bit of horseradish and really perky tomatoes.

HA HA HA. I hate you guys.