Am I missing something? What actual merits does this “stunt” have? I mean, the endurance aspect of it may be fairly impressive (though, even if he’s not cheating, it’s still not exactly record-breaking stuff), but it’s piss-poor entertainment. I mean, I don’t feel the urge to throw eggs or anything, but I certainly don’t see much cause for applause …
FWIW, I tried the ol’ “pick a card - make it a difficult one” trick on three of my work colleagues. One said the 2 of clubs, one said the 4 of hearts and the other said the queen of hearts… but that was a bloke.
So I dunno if I’m just doing it wrong or if insurance people aren’t as other folks. But there you go.
In other news: frankly, I can’t even believe that anyone would get on their high horse about some idjit getting his box pelted with eggs after he gives us a load of mumbo jumbo and climbs inside it. I’d be disappointed if there weren’t eggs.
Just ask John Major.
(Or, indeed John Prescott)
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I should mention that yesterday a friend and I were discussing Blaine, and she said “I really don’t think he’d quit now, despite all the abuse - I don’t think he’d be able to take that much egg on his face.”
She honestly didn’t realise what she’d said…
eggs
…or schwarzenegger
And, I have seen Blaine use the following gambit very effectively:
“Think of a card…”
(short pause)
“…not something easy like the Ace of Spades…”
(impressed looks from those who had indeed chosen the Ace of Spades (who now have to choose again), neutrality from those who didn’t who don’t see this statement as the “miss” that it is)
“…7 of clubs!”
Seems to me he astutely doubles his chances of a hit, with increased possibilities for “partial” scores.
I like Blaine as a street magician, I’ve stolen loads of his effects, but this box thing? In England? After the smug, self-absorbed mumbo-jumbo hype? He was asking for it, really.
At the moment I’ve got him pegged somewhere between David Ike and the bloke who sold London Bridge.
On the general point:
What will be interesting, I feel, will be how the public sentiment shifts over time. An interesting aspect at the moment is that Blaine doesn’t ‘get’ the British public – who knows, maybe he doesn’t even know a wanker sign from a ‘hi’. I don’t believe he can tune in to the very un-American British mindset.
Yet, when he starts playing attention-seeking games – as he surely will as time passes and he sense the crowds are dwindling (as the weather becomes colder and damper) – the public reaction to him will change.
- give it another 2-3 weeks and I might see this as, perhaps, something else, possibly. How about akin to ‘Installation art’ ?even now, there’s a certain ‘American quality’ of ‘its all about the that money’ ’ asking us to buy into unreal perceptions, etc, reminds me a little of Bush and Iraq . . . .It’s early but it has potential to symbolise rather more, imho.
That is all from your Installation Art expert today. Thang yew and mind the shiny mobiles on the way out . . .
Blaine has already said that it’s a piece of art.
You’d think his management would have done a bit of research about how it would be received…
Now his girlfriend is saying the derision is motivated by “racism”. :rolleyes:
It’s a piece of something…
Racism? Strikes me as a knee-jerk reaction to what’s going on. And, of course, now anyone who flings an egg, or even so much as criticises him is a “racist”.
What bobbins. It’s nothing to do with his race. It’s to do with his over-inflated sense of his own self-importance. OISOHOSI-ism.
(What “race” is he? Seriously?)
Looks American to me.
“Bobbins”?!?!? WTF does that mean? 
I think it’s French for “bollocks”.
Or possibly Welsh, I can never tell those two apart.
Precisely. Can’t work out why the “racism” card is being played.
And “bobbins”. Noun. Like “bollocks”, only slightly more radio-friendly. Pre-watershed pile of shite.
As I remember, Frank Sidebottom was very fond of bobbins.
but biscuits are non gender or race specific projectiles!
god Kabbes, frank sidebottom. that takes me back. is he still going?
His mother reported to be Russian-Jewish, but worth noting that Blaine has previously claimed Romani (Gypsy) decent on the maternal side as well. His father is reported to be either Puerto Rican or Puerto Rican-Italian.
"Is it because I is black?"
Actually, has anyone else noticed the resemblance between Ali G (Sasha Baron Cohen) and David Blaine? And you’ll notice how you never see the two together. Spooky.
Oy, David:
"Is you on Crack?"
Big Up for da Blaine Posse! Innit
As a dyslexic, I momentarily read that as Front Sidebottom - very disconcerting imagery of life inside the transparent chez Blaine passed across my eyes . . .
I thank his non-racist German girlfriend for her insightful view, I hope she gets to spend a couple of the 7 million.
Are you quite sure that you are English? How could you not know of the perfectly cromulent word bobbins?
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