# David Copperfield to impregnate woman on stage **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2005, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884 "2005-10-19T11:16:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/21 "2005-10-19T20:19:36Z")
Perfect timing, **AtomicDog**! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/22 "2005-10-19T20:21:06Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > [Here’s the story.](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1577408.html) > > Note he claims he’s going to do it without touching her. Where is the fun in that? ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/23 "2005-10-19T20:31:56Z")
Ahhhh, it’s the old disappearing salami trick! …Now you see it, Now you don’t, Now you see it, Now you don’t, Now you see it, Now you don’t, Now you see it, Now you don’t, Now you see it, Now you don’t, Now you see it, Now you don’t, Now you see it, Now you don’t, Now you see it, Now you don’t… … And Bam! Gabagool! ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/24 "2005-10-19T20:52:01Z")
…well… if the rumors in the magician community are correct… MAGIC is the only way Copperfield is impregnating a woman. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/25 "2005-10-19T21:54:57Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > …well… if the rumors in the magician community are correct… MAGIC is the only way Copperfield is impregnating a woman. Yes…wondered if anyone else had heard that. Actually, there was a scandal years ago in the German press when they claimed to have a copy of a contract Copperfield had with Claudia Schiffer that paid her several million dollars to be his “girlfriend” for a certain number of years. And besides, getting a girl pregant without touching her? What’s the big news here…isn’t that how Katie Holmes got pregnant? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/26 "2005-10-19T22:08:27Z")
I just like that this thread was started by **Tentacle Monster**. Old pro at long-distance imprgnation, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/27 "2005-10-20T02:04:44Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > “Nothin’ up my sleeve!!” I thought only doctors called it a sleeve. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/28 "2005-10-20T22:56:11Z")
Ricky did it to Lucy first ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/29 "2005-10-20T23:03:14Z")
I know exactly how this sort of stuff works; he’ll pull a stork out of a hat and make a gooseberry bush appear inside a circle of people behind a curtain. ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/30 "2005-10-20T23:09:58Z")
Now, whay am I suddenly thinking “Jump the Shark?” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/31 "2005-10-20T23:46:42Z")
Only David Copperfield could conceive of an illusion so pitiful that there’s little probability of **ianzin** getting worked up enough about it being discussed here to interject with his _pro forma_ “Those who really know how it’s done won’t tell you!” spiel. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/32 "2005-10-20T23:55:23Z")
This same thing happened to an uncle of mine. He, a self proclaimed preformer, would go around and do these types of tricks for parties and people off the street. Especially at family gatherings, he would be known to do the whole “behind the ear” gag, but with babies. Sadly, as he grew older he began to lose track of the babies. They would accumlate and spread, filling entire rooms of his house at a time. If it wasn’t for his senile dementia, he might of done something with them, say locate them a nice family or maybe even turn them into doves - inarguably an easier pet to take care of. However, this was not the case, and so as these spurned-from-magic kids grew older, they each learned a musical instrument and formed a band. On some nights, especially on nights like tonight, their siren song can be heard over the hills and through the valleys, with the characteristic golden triangle keeping the countryside in tune. With just a simple voice, sweet and melodic as it were, an entire nation has turned against magicians and their black art. For them, and most of the international community at large, magic is provacitive, dangerous, and unwieldy compared to domestic intrests. However, the traveling band of magic spurn babies are the ones who ultimately lose. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/33 "2005-10-21T00:23:44Z")
Jay Leno said, “Big deal–Michael Jackson’s already done that trick.” ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/34 "2005-10-21T02:42:29Z")
> [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > This same thing happened to an uncle of mine. He, a self proclaimed preformer, would go around and do these types of tricks for parties and people off the street. Especially at family gatherings, he would be known to do the whole “behind the ear” gag, but with babies. Sadly, as he grew older he began to lose track of the babies. They would accumlate and spread, filling entire rooms of his house at a time. If it wasn’t for his senile dementia, he might of done something with them, say locate them a nice family or maybe even turn them into doves - inarguably an easier pet to take care of. However, this was not the case, and so as these spurned-from-magic kids grew older, they each learned a musical instrument and formed a band. On some nights, especially on nights like tonight, their siren song can be heard over the hills and through the valleys, with the characteristic golden triangle keeping the countryside in tune. With just a simple voice, sweet and melodic as it were, an entire nation has turned against magicians and their black art. For them, and most of the international community at large, magic is provacitive, dangerous, and unwieldy compared to domestic intrests. However, the traveling band of magic spurn babies are the ones who ultimately lose. Too. Much. Funny. 😃😃😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![Otanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Otanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otanx)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/35 "2005-10-21T12:20:25Z")
First line from the translated site > [@](#): > > David Copperfield believes in the miracle in the microwave. I wasn’t aware that it was a miracle, but glad he believes in it. [Copperfield] For my next trick I am going to heat this plate of leftovers in only 1 minute! [/CP] -Otanx ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/36 "2005-10-21T12:31:08Z")
Hey, don’t make fun of Mr. Kotkin’s powers: did you know that he can melt ice cubes just by staring at them for twenty minutes? PS: I once dated his second cousin (no lie) – she made _me_ disappear! ---
**Author:** ![Jpeg\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/37 "2005-10-21T18:35:37Z")
To be followed by _David Copperfield to magically instill a lingering sense of self-doubt in an audience member, onstage before your very eyes._ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/38 "2005-10-21T18:39:39Z")
And in time, I suppose, this kid will learn carpentry in Nazareth, gather some followers around him, create loaves and fishes, turn water into wine and then… Never mind. It didn’t go so well the first time around, either. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884/39 "2005-10-21T22:00:01Z")
I do have to say, as stupid and inane as this latest ‘magic’ is, Copperfield does to a good job of stage magic, and he’s quite good at close-up slight of hand magic as well. I went to a show of his about 5 years ago and he was very impressive. Sure, he’s over the top on presentation and you can tell the arrogance just seeps from his pores, but he did do some pretty astounding tricks. The fact that he ‘teleported’ 50 feet, appearing in the center of a concrete floor, where half the audience was set up (used as a hockey rink usually), with no false flooring for him to tunnel under, impressed me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-copperfield-to-impregnate-woman-on-stage/326884.md?page=1)