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- From: nkjrm@taxus.uib.no (Rolf Manne)
- Subject: Re: blindfolded trick
- Message-ID: <nkjrm.33@taxus.uib.no>
- Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount)
- Organization: University of Bergen
- References: <1992Nov22.231544.15567@fwi.uva.nl>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:36:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.231544.15567@fwi.uva.nl> delft@fwi.uva.nl (Andre van Delft) writes:
-
- >For a burning question, I quote & translate from the dutch newspaper
- >NRC Handelsblad, November 20:
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- > ROTTERDAM - Although the police forbad it, hypnotizer and illusionist
- > Rasti Rostelli secretly performed yersterday his yearly 'birthday stunt':
- > blindfolded and with coins (dutch 'rijksdaalders', diameter about 1 inch)
- > taped on his eyelids, driving by car in Rotterdam during the busy hour.
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- stuff deleted
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- >I am still puzzled. Can anyone explain me how Rostelli does the trick?
-
- >Andre van Delft
-
- I raised the question of blind-folding with James Randi at a skeptics
- conference in Finland a few years ago. Randi told that he used to do
- a similar stunt "without having many accidents." He also said that it is
- very easy to make fake blind-folds. You need a very small hole in order to
- see well. This answer is well covered in the skeptical literature although
- I cannot quote chapter and verse.
-
- Rolf Manne
- Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen, Norway
- e-mail Rolf.Manne@uib.no
-