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 Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 11:09 am Post subject: From Derren |
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Derren says:
"Promise you she wasn't an actress or a stooge, though I did think at the time she sounded a bit like she might be. I really, really don't use stooges: it's bad, inelegant and unnecessary. Neither was she controlled through psychic powers. Neither, as far as I know, did she have had any idea why she stopped. I think the business about forgetting something may have entered her head as a justification for stopping, once she was being asked questions. No idea if that helps, but please keep speculating. Buy me enough drinks and I'll tell you exactly how it works..."
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-orders large case of champers and whiskey- 
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 11:14 am Post subject: Re: From Derren |
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| forumadmin wrote: | | Buy me enough drinks and I'll tell you exactly how it works..." |
... or fall head first into my fridge.
(Why have I got a mental picture of Derren Brown being a girlie lightweight who falls into his fridge at the merest whiff of alcohol? Drags... Is this your fault or was it in an article somewhere? I should start smoking again... my memory has turned to shite since stopping.)
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 11:25 am Post subject: Re: From Derren |
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| Lolly Pertwhistle wrote: | ... or fall head first into my fridge.
(Why have I got a mental picture of Derren Brown being a girlie lightweight who falls into his fridge at the merest whiff of alcohol? Drags... Is this your fault or was it in an article somewhere? I should start smoking again... my memory has turned to shite since stopping.) |
It wasnt alcohol, it was the rotten kipper, remember?
*contributes some deadly homebrew to the whip round*
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 1:19 pm Post subject: Re: From Derren |
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| Lolly Pertwhistle wrote: | | (Why have I got a mental picture of Derren Brown being a girlie lightweight who falls into his fridge at the merest whiff of alcohol? Drags... Is this your fault or was it in an article somewhere? I should start smoking again... my memory has turned to shite since stopping.) |
Erm. When he got totally rat arsed I think he passed out in his fridge. That was in an article. Not sure which one though. But from looking at his collection of spirits in some of the photos he can't be as lightweight as... say.... me!
The trick is not to start smoking in the first place! My memory's still fabulous!
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: From Derren |
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| Dragonnade wrote: | | The trick is not to start smoking in the first place! My memory's still fabulous! |
Where were you and your stunning advice ten years ago when I needed you? Sheesh... 
Just you wait, Ms Whippersnapper... You've got *counts on fingers* just over a decade to go before you get to my ripened age. That gives you plenty of time to destroy a few million brain cells through injudicious behaviour.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 1:39 pm Post subject: Re: From Derren |
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| forumadmin wrote: | | Neither was she controlled through psychic powers. |
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| forumadmin wrote: | | Neither was she controlled through psychic powers. |
Ah, I can almost hear the sarcasm in that sentence. I hope Derek Acorah doesn't read this....
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 2:14 pm Post subject: Re: From Derren |
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| Lolly Pertwhistle wrote: | | Dragonnade wrote: | | The trick is not to start smoking in the first place! My memory's still fabulous! |
Where were you and your stunning advice ten years ago when I needed you? Sheesh...
Just you wait, Ms Whippersnapper... You've got *counts on fingers* just over a decade to go before you get to my ripened age. That gives you plenty of time to destroy a few million brain cells through injudicious behaviour. |
Hehehe! I was 7! That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!
Destroy is thru injudicious behaviour..... Damn! There goes the drug frenzy I have planned for my 18th then! hehe
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It was definitely in an article somewhere. He was asked when was the last time he was drunk and he replied by saying that he had only ever been really drunk once, and he had fallen over trying to get something out of the fridge
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| Forumadmin wrote: | | Neither was she controlled through psychic powers. |
Aha, but he doesn't rule out string.
String. Ingenius cats' cradle trap fashioned from piano wire. Chewing gum or industrial strength glue on the pavement. Big portable fan at one end of street; powerful vacuum cleaner at the other end. Cobwebs which are edited out of shot afterwards. Hidden man with placard saying "BEWARE OF THE LANDMINES!". Really strong horseshoe magnets. Sheet of clingfilm stretched across street. Tempting cake shop display. Quick drying cement. Poster advertising an incredible "Buy One, Get One Free" cardigan offer in TopShop. Elasticated String. I've run out of ideas. Aid from the Queen of the Air Elementals in exchange for a human sacrifice. Muscle relaxing stun gun. Bad Feng Shui. Massive Botox injection administered through the sole of the foot. The woman was in fact a narcoleptic. Men in balaclavas hiding down the drains who grab her feet as she passes. The window through which we see the red hat woman is in fact a flat screen TV, which is voice sensitive and set to freeze. Oh, I don't care anymore. Is there any possibility I haven't covered in that list?
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.....or someone standing underneath the building and shouting 'Oi!!' from behind her.
...or strange-looking man positioned so that after she's walked past him, he starts clucking like a chicken and jumping up and down.
Oh no, wait, I've got it. The camera crew rushed from that direction, didn't they? And that lady with the microphone had bright pink, outrageous-looking hair and striking glasses, if my memory serves me right... Surely if you'd just walked past such an out-of-place-looking bunch, the chances are you'd idly wonder what they were up to and turn round to have a look after you'd passed them (so as not to look too conspicuous). Then, when they rushed up and asked you why you'd stopped, you'd be too embarrassed to say that you were looking at them, so you'd make something up.
Or maybe Derren stuck a subliminal message somewhere on the other side of the building with an instruction to stop and turn round after you'd gone past it. Most of us walk around the streets in a trance a lot of the time, thinking about other things, so it would be easy for a subliminal message to affect us...
What do you think? Plausible? Or a product of my Vulcan-esque mind?
Actually, no, scratch that. Go Go's "Sheet of clingfilm stretched across street" has solved it for me...
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Simple yet effective. It is possible to achieve a similar effect with perspex, but of course the woman's nose would have flattened against its hard, unyielding surface and pretty much given the game away. Err, there might also have been a large "thwack" when she walked straight into it. Clingfilm, as you'll already have guessed if you've ever wrapped up sandwiches, has a lot of give and just moulds itself to the face, so there is no way to spot its presence. Unless you breathe on it.
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| Go Go wrote: | | Clingfilm, as you'll already have guessed if you've ever wrapped up sandwiches, just moulds itself to the face. |
Go Go, you're not supposed to be eating the sandwiches when you wrap them; it's much easier if you put them on the worktop first... 
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Thank you for the advice, I'll remember that. And there was me wondering why I always end up looking like Laura Palmer after preparing my packed lunch... rolling around on the kitchen floor with yards and yards of clingfilm wrapped around my face... frantically struggling to breathe... And don't even get me started on the subject of tin foil! Do you know it conducts electricity?
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-backs carefully away from Go Go- 
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ROTFLMAO!
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HAHAHA!
so glad I spotted this thread! (again)
has anyone discussed the possiblity of a huge magnet and an underwired bra?
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No, but the idea of a big spear made out of glass crossed my mind, until I remembered the blood. Oh. But she was wearing a red hat, so maybe they aimed it at her head...
Well, that's how you pin butterflies to cards, isn't it? 
"...but it was all hushed up!"
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I don't know how they managed the vox-pop afterwards. Perhaps they ran a few volts of electricity through her to make her mouth twitch, and then someone stood behind her and did ventriloquism. That would explain why she came across as so stilted.
Oops, I fancy I've strayed into the realms of the sick. Let's backtrack to the plausible, shall we? 
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What about a shout of "Armed police. Stop right now."
Or a sign in a window saying "Toady someone will win £10,000........ read on."
Or a naked person runs down the street.
Or an invisible force field caused by a Jedi Knight.
Or a conducting wire stratigitically placed in the street that causes a huge electric shock.
Or a giant remote-controlled pigeon swoops down in front of the red hatted woman and proceeds to poo on her.
Or a dodo walks past her.
Or a hook attached to a large stick which was subsequently air brushed out was wrapped around her neck, forcing her to stop suddenly.
Or a loud speaker broadcast "Lady in the red hat, you have forgotten an item off your shopping list. Stop right now and remember it."
Or ..... urm.... now I'm having to think, something I refuse to do unless absolutely necessary, so I'll stop now.
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Laxatives dropped into her cafe latte, their effect finely timed to the second?
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| Hedgehog wrote: | | Laxatives dropped into her cafe latte, their effect finely timed to the second? |
Thanks, Hedgehog! I shouldn't have read that whilst drinking; there is now orange juice all over my desk where I spat it out in a fit of laughter!
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I've studied the film with FBI style enhancement techniques and I can't see anything odd..
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| Rexyp wrote: | | I've studied the film with FBI style enhancement techniques and I can't see anything odd.. |
You can't see anything odd? Can you not see that woman's jacket with the big flowers on?
My gran had curtains like that.
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