Derren Brown: Archive
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From: dale_kingstons_world_of_art
Date: Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:44pm
Subject: Re: Dog Track??
> Perhaps you would enlighten us all on your own theories instead of
> criticising others in such a demeaning manor.
>
> For the record
>
> I object to the tone of the comment "…for someone who claims to be
a
> professional magician.."
>
> I also object to the inference that I was "..deliberately trying
to
> muddy the water."
The muddying the water comment was based on the fact that I suspect
that a canny magician would read the postings on here and feel
motivated to join in and help further compound the ridiculous
theories and beliefs that are bandied about. I don't think that you
are a canny magician, though.
Your status as a professional magician was clear to me, thus my
comment about me doubting your claims was designed to be a slightly
sarcastic pointer towards the fact that you don't know as much as
you think you do. Your theory about how the stunt at the dog track
was accomplished was utterly wrong.
You wrote:
"I think that Derren used this 'Bang on the wall' and "this is the
dog you're looking for..."' with a few winning tickets (perhaps
borrowed from other punters) first. This would create a conditioned
response from the teller."
It is an amusing theory. I don't have a theory about how this
actually worked; I know precisely how it worked. No linguistic
tricks, no conditioning of responses. Rather than spelling it out
for you, think about this. The machines in the dog track will not
pay out on a losing ticket. The operator scans the ticket and if it
is a winner, they are told how much to pay out. If the ticket is a
loser the machine will say so. Even if the operator was convinced
that the ticket was a winning one, the machine would still say it
was a loser. Period. Do you think that linguistic tricks or whatever
work on machines?
| Replies | Author | Yahoo! ID | Date | Size |
| 4842: Re: Dog Track?? | Derek | derek_heron | Tue 29/04/2003 | 2 KB |
| 4847: Re: Dog Track?? | Rob Dobson | northerncomfortuk | Tue 29/04/2003 | 3 KB |
| 4849: Re: Dog Track?? | dale_kingstons_world_of_art | dale_kingstons_world_of_art | Tue 29/04/2003 | 2 KB |
| 4850: Re: Dog Track?? | Rob Dobson | northerncomfortuk | Tue 29/04/2003 | 3 KB |
| 4855: Re: Dog Track?? | dale_kingstons_world_of_art | dale_kingstons_world_of_art | Tue 29/04/2003 | 2 KB |
| 4859: Re: Dog Track?? | Rob Dobson | northerncomfortuk | Tue 29/04/2003 | 2 KB |
| 4885: Re: Dog Track?? | dale_kingstons_world_of_art | dale_kingstons_world_of_art | Wed 30/04/2003 | 2 KB |
| 4890: Re: Dog Track?? | Rob Dobson | northerncomfortuk | Wed 30/04/2003 | 2 KB |
| 4895: Re: Dog Track?? | Derek | derek_heron | Wed 30/04/2003 | 3 KB |
