Posted on 10/24/2007 10:46:31 AM PDT by yankeesdoodle
Ok, but remember to change the sweat band in that foil hat ever now and then. They get to much sweat in them and start picking up radio waves due to the salt. :)
Penn and Teller. There are no other magicians who come close.
Could be. Don't know.
But remember, there are still tons of people in Durham NC who proclaim the Duke lacrosse players guilty and almost daily are in the media proclaiming "something happened in that house!"
LOL, so what did Ben Franklin use?? He was a playa too!
Maybe the FBI are involved because perhaps first Copperfield offered to pay the lady off. Maybe he was trying to bribe her to stay quiet about the rape (or whatever did happen) with some of the millions he keeps lying around his warehouse. Maybe he even TOLD her he had tons of cash he could shut her up with.
That's okay. I need to call my thespian friends and let them know that they're all creepy too. "Hi. I was wanting some info. on that acting coach you rave about. Oh. I think you're creepy."
Okay. I read further and take back half my comment. I still want to tell someone they’re creepy.
Remember when he mistook a MSM reporter for one of his SS men? He ordered the guy to go get a hot woman's number. So the reporter obeyed his President. Then, when he had the girl's digits, the reporter was afraid to approach Clinton directly. So he went to a real Secret Service guy to ask him to pass the note to the President. Clinton stopped him and hissed angrily at him, "WHEN I ASK YOU TO DO SOMETHING FOR ME, DO NOT GO TO YOUR SUPERVISOR FOR PERMISSION, JUST DO IT!" The reporter was so shocked that he actually reported the whole incident.
Oh! Here’s a good one... Hugh Jackman, from the X men. I love him to death- he’s one of my favorite actors—
and he’s also creepy
I am suing you for making me laugh too long in this smoke-filled SoCal air...
Also Magneto— Ian McKellan —one of the best actors around
creepy
Patrick Stewart- Star Trek the Next generation, X-Men
not creepy
(see, I don’t make the rules) It’s a gut thing
Great points. Thank you!
Picture this - a bunch of monk looking fellows around a water basin:
Brethren and Cistern
P&T are excellent and great at what they do. There magical skills, especially Teller are far beyond what they use in their shows. But are they the best? Hardly.
Being a magician, past VP and President of magical organization, I belive this is one topic with which I can speak with some authority. Unfortunately, because of the secretive nature of the business, and laymans lack of knowledge of who many of the worlds greats are my stories would be lost on most people.
But I can tell you of some people who have been disqualified at the most prestigious magic competition because they were so good, and fooled the judges so bad they felt there was no way they could be doing what they claim they were doing without breaking the rules. After private meetings with the judges and 'exposing' how they did what they did, they were reinstated and award top prize.
What the Bahamas has become...its a magnet for Americans to quietly bring in cash they have earned or acquired in the US...and never paid taxes. You arrange a deal for property...where the price your friend paid you is $4 million but they paid you $1 million in cash or promisary notes which helped seal the deal...which you never reported, and you move the capital to the Bahamas.
You swing a deal to finance a hotel project in Taiwan...taking $30 million from your secret stash in the Bahamas...getting $40 million in return after five years as your “reward”....with nothing getting into the books or reported to IRS.
You work as a no-talent blonde bimbo in the US...a former 3rd rate star...but you hire yourself out to various rich Hollywood types for evenings as a escort, and earn $10 million a year which you quietly have delivered out to the Bahamas by a “friend” and you deposit it there to avoid taxes.
The bottom line...billions in taxation are lost. Its no longer the Bill Gates characters that we talk about. I had a work associate who had amassed two million in legitimate investments and felt it was time to retire and put the money out in the Bahamas. The investment crew who tried to talk him into the idea...talked of fantastic growth over five years and no connection back to the IRS. At some point...the whole thing sounded too much like a scheme that would go wrong at some point...and the IRS might catch on...drawing him into a court situation. It wasn’t worth it.
He should have remembered the Chamber of Commerce’s slogan, “What’s in your pants, STAYS in your pants!”
Ummmm, not exactly.
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I should add that your point is well taken. Most entertainers, including the Boortz, “turn on” when getting on the stage, the mike, or the camera. Boortz is, however, slightly exotic even when away from the microphone.
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