David Blaine "Drowned Alive"

[widgeon13]

GREED!, nothing like it. What a great motivator.

[scottmandue]

Yeah, it's all about the Benjamen's baby... crazy like a fox he's probably getting rich with all these nutty stunts.

I tuned in for a few minutes, I like magic but only the slight of hand stuff with cards and coins. All the big stunts are just staged BS.

Anyone see the guy who blew himself up a few months ago?Now that guy was a few frys short of a happy meal!

[bigchillcar]

totally sick of reality shows. i could stand it when 'celebrities' spent their time, as they are want to do, being entirely self-absorbed. but when ordinary people get their 15-minutes of fame and act like celebrities..i just wanna barf. bring back only the tv shows with the legit 'conceited' actors and actresses i say..
ryan

[bigrubberjeep]

I think he's amazing, his name will go down in History for sure. I think soem of us are a bit "numb" to all the great stunts he does because he is doing them in the era of "reality TV"

[Jims5543]

Originally posted by bigchillcar
totally sick of reality shows. i could stand it when 'celebrities' spent their time, as they are want to do, being entirely self-absorbed. but when ordinary people get their 15-minutes of fame and act like celebrities..i just wanna barf. bring back only the tv shows with the legit 'conceited' actors and actresses i say..
ryan

Get HBO, I rarely watch netword TV, actually, I never watch Network TV. I wish I could just get the Weather Channel, Speed (For F-1) and the HBO bundle, I do not need the other 300 channels.

[RickM]

Originally posted by bigrubberjeep
I think he's amazing, his name will go down in History for sure. I think soem of us are a bit "numb" to all the great stunts he does because he is doing them in the era of "reality TV"

While I don't watch 2 hour shows like this I do give him credit for being different from the other "magic" acts. IMO, this guy trys to do very physically challenging stunts unlike many of his Magic-of-TV counterparts.

Who was that dude? Angel something or other?

[bigrubberjeep]

Originally posted by RickM
While I don't watch 2 hour shows like this I do give him credit for being different from the other "magic" acts. IMO, this guy trys to do very physically challenging stunts unlike many of his Magic-of-TV counterparts.

Who was that dude? Angel something or other?

I was watching the Clipper game, I would nto watch him for 2 hours either but it was interesting to flip back and fourth from the game

[svandamme]

i think this guy put's the B in Boring with his so called stunts

if i decide to lock myself up in my room for 7 days straight, nobody will give a rats ass , so what's so bloody interesting about beeing in a glass bowl for 7 days then?

really , it's the record attempt that's ground breaking
he should simply announce he's going to hold his breath for 10 minutes straight , on that day , at 19h00 sharpish , do or die. no plan B , a mechanical timerlock, tamper proof.

Evil Knievel didn't have no stinking parachutes when he did his jumps, so why should this poser have backups

[bigrubberjeep]

Originally posted by svandamme
i think this guy put's the B in Boring with his so called stunts

if i decide to lock myself up in my room for 7 days straight, nobody will give a rats ass , so what's so bloody interesting about beeing in a glass bowl for 7 days then?

really , it's the record attempt that's ground breaking
he should simply announce he's going to hold his breath for 10 minutes straight , on that day , at 19h00 sharpish , do or die. no plan B , a mechanical timerlock, tamper proof.

Evil Knievel didn't have no stinking parachutes when he did his jumps, so why should this poser have backups

Poser? Can you hold your breath for 7minutes?

[fastpat]

Bah! Bread and circuses.

[on-ramp]

I kept wanting the gay guy on DOND to be underwater....damn, he was so annoying.

Originally posted by nostatic
you could do something other than watch tv

You mean like, spend quality time on a bbs?

[svandamme]

Originally posted by bigrubberjeep
Poser? Can you hold your breath for 7minutes?

the breath holding is not the point , sure he held it a long time, but it's not out of the ordinary , as mentioned the record is 9 minutes.. and i'm sure there's others that can do 7 and 8 if they would put their mind to it

it's the sitting 7 days in a bowl thing that's posing
the only reason for it is raising a hype so he can sell his not so spectacular "i can hold my breath for 2 minutes less then the record" stunt for more then it's worth...

just like his other stunts, glass coffin for 7 days , glass bowl in the air for 44 days...sure, i wouldn't want to do those , cause it must be utterly boring to do in the first place, but it's even more boring to look at...

[bigrubberjeep]

Originally posted by svandamme
the breath holding is not the point , sure he held it a long time, but it's not out of the ordinary , as mentioned the record is 9 minutes.. and i'm sure there's others that can do 7 and 8 if they would put their mind to it

it's the sitting 7 days in a bowl thing that's posing
the only reason for it is raising a hype so he can sell his not so spectacular "i can hold my breath for 2 minutes less then the record" stunt for more then it's worth...

just like his other stunts, glass coffin for 7 days , glass bowl in the air for 44 days...sure, i wouldn't want to do those , cause it must be utterly boring to do in the first place, but it's even more boring to look at...

Well look at it this way, you might things it's boring to look at but you know WHO he is and you know WHAT he's done. Mission accomplished if you ask me.

The sitting in 7 days is a record just FYI, probably no big deal, but still a WORLD record

[Victor]

Originally posted by svandamme
SNIP

Evil Knievel didn't have no stinking parachutes when he did his jumps, so why should this poser have backups

I was just thinking the same thing - all EK had for safety was a cheap looking helmet...and that cape.

When was the last time anyone tried to jump the fountain in front of Caesar's Palace. Is it still there?

[91S2]

ummm... a dude on ESPN just jumped over the fountain this weekend...120 feet or something. i caught the last 5 minutes flipping around

[Victor]

See - NOW THATS A STUNT!!

[scottmandue]

I don't know but... uh the guy is an illusionist (magician)... ya know like they don't really cut the woman in half or make the space shuttle disappear or pull coins out of thin air. Who confirmed that he stayed in the water for 7 day etc.?

[bigrubberjeep]

Originally posted by scottmandue
Who confirmed that he stayed in the water for 7 day etc.?

The thousands of people that walked passed him in New York City as he lived in a fish bowl.

[Rot 911]

I can't even hold my breath for 2 minutes. You must really have to practice to get to 3 minutes much less 9!!!!!!