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David Copperfield says he's found Fountain of Youth
Reuters/Yahoo ^ | 8/15/06 | Jane Sutton

Posted on 08/15/2006 3:37:23 PM PDT by My2Cents

David Copperfield says he's found Fountain of Youth
By Jane Sutton Tue Aug 15

The man who made the Statue of Liberty appear to vanish may soon claim to do the same for unsightly bags and wrinkles.

Master illusionist David Copperfield says he has found the "Fountain of Youth" in the southern Bahamas, amid a cluster of four tiny islands he recently bought for $50 million (26.4 million pounds).

One of his islands in the Exuma chain, Musha Cay, is a private resort that rents for up to $300,000 a week and the other islands serve as buffers to keep prying eyes away from celebrity guests on the white sand beaches.

Copperfield is coy about his reasons for the Fountain of Youth claim, but the man best known for entertaining with grand deception insists his archipelago also contains the legendary waters that bestow perpetual youth. Seriously.

"I've discovered a true phenomenon," he told Reuters in a telephone interview. "You can take dead leaves, they come in contact with the water, they become full of life again. ... Bugs or insects that are near death, come in contact with the water, they'll fly away. It's an amazing thing, very, very exciting."

Copperfield, who turns 50 next month, said he had hired biologists and geologists to examine its potential effect on humans but he's not inviting visitors to swim in or drink from it just yet.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: fraud; magic; pl
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To: TXBubba
How does one know if a bug or insect is near death?

If it's in my house death is imminent.

21 posted on 08/15/2006 3:47:24 PM PDT by OSHA (Lose money FAST playing penny stocks. Ask me how!)
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To: My2Cents
Yeah, it's called Botox..

sw

22 posted on 08/15/2006 3:47:26 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (Daniel 7:25; 12:7; Revelation 13:5; 12:6.)
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To: jw777

Why? He's very entertaining. More fun than watching my Brownies lose!!!


23 posted on 08/15/2006 3:47:31 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Suzy Quzy
He thinks he's found a Fountain of Dumbasses to buy his crap.

You've got that right. I can just picture the earth worshiping liberals flocking down there and paying thousands for a dip in mother earths womb water.

24 posted on 08/15/2006 3:47:39 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: My2Cents

$300,000 a week? Well, he certainly found a way to make rich people' money disappear! Can you imagine being so rich that a week's vacation at $300,000 sounds reasonable???? UNBELIEVABLE.


25 posted on 08/15/2006 3:49:00 PM PDT by Hildy (To save us both time, assume I know everything...)
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To: My2Cents

26 posted on 08/15/2006 3:49:15 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: TXBubba

How does one know if a bug or insect is near death?
or if a bug is a crawler how does it fly away?


27 posted on 08/15/2006 3:49:41 PM PDT by SF Republican
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To: SF Republican
or if a bug is a crawler how does it fly away?

Well, that's easy. The magic youthful water can also give it new attributes.

28 posted on 08/15/2006 3:50:59 PM PDT by TXBubba ( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
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To: My2Cents

IMO, that story had nothing to do with the fountain of youth, he just said that because he probably is doing some twenty year old.


29 posted on 08/15/2006 3:51:05 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Baynative
I smell a scam in the works!

"I will make your money....*disappear!*"

30 posted on 08/15/2006 3:51:05 PM PDT by steveo (ADVERTISEMENT)
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To: Callahan
"Fountain of Ambiguously Gay Magicians who once hired Claudia Schiffer is more like it."


- Isn't Copperfield the magician who slyly tipped his hand when he changed the classic stage trick of escaping from a locked trunk to one where he escaped from a locked closet?
31 posted on 08/15/2006 3:51:42 PM PDT by finnigan2
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To: My2Cents

He wears more makeup than those models he dates.


32 posted on 08/15/2006 3:51:43 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: My2Cents

Hopefully I can buy some of this stuff to bring my pet rock back to life. He just sits there...


33 posted on 08/15/2006 3:53:10 PM PDT by RobRoy (Islam is more dangerous to the world now that Naziism was in 1937.)
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To: jw777
the fact that he had $50 million is disturbing.

What is so disturbing about that?

34 posted on 08/15/2006 3:53:39 PM PDT by Popman ("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
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To: My2Cents
From the little tiny insect voice: "Help me! Help me!"

LOL

35 posted on 08/15/2006 3:53:51 PM PDT by jla
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To: My2Cents

Paging Art Bell, please pick up on wildcard line...


36 posted on 08/15/2006 3:54:27 PM PDT by ChessMan (It's not just a tagline, it's an adventure)
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To: Paved Paradise

I'm not saying he's entertaining, but that is a lot of entertaining! I think i am more shocked, than anything, that he is paid so well.

Browns will do better this year. Some nice offseason acquisitions. Plus, Kellen Jr. is back right?


37 posted on 08/15/2006 3:54:52 PM PDT by jw777
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To: spectre
Yeah, it's called Botox..

No! It's called "Viagra."

38 posted on 08/15/2006 3:55:44 PM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (WARNING: Alcohol may cause you to think you are whispering when you are definitely not.)
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To: Popman

The fact that he has it. Did you not read the post? LOL.


39 posted on 08/15/2006 3:55:46 PM PDT by jw777
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To: My2Cents

And for his next trick, he will make $300,000 disappear!


40 posted on 08/15/2006 3:56:06 PM PDT by dangus
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