Randi nominated for Houdini Award

[Jamie Walton]

OK I'll try this again because I'm not allowed to post URL's until I have made 15 posts, you are all going to have to take my word for it that I pasted this from a genuine website.

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SCRANTON, Pa., Sept 23, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Because of David Blaine's Houdini- esque stunts the Board of Directors of The Houdini Museum in Scranton has decided to place David Blaine up for nomination for the first-ever Houdini Award to be given out by the prestigious museum.

When David Blaine is buried alive for seven days, frozen in a block of ice or hung upside down for 60 hours, he credits Harry Houdini's legendary escapes as his inspiration. In April, Blaine broke a world record by holding his breath underwater for 17 minutes and 4.4 seconds, another Houdini inspired stunt.

Others who have been nominated include James Randi, Dorothy Dietrich and Caesar Pelez of Le Grand David. Criss Angel, David Copperfield, and Penn and Teller were in the running for nomination but did not make the cut this year. The winner of the award is to have a special coin minted in their honor.

Editing down content for Rule 4. Link:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/magician-david-blaine-nominated-consideration/story.aspx?guid={397BD8BD-B40E-4772-9F67-86A1DE1BF3BD}&dist=hppr

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As you can see the article is focused on David Blaine's nomination which is ridiculous considering he hangs out with Z-list celebrity bender Uri Geller.

More disappointing for me was the fact that Penn and Teller didn't make the cut.

Anyway the Winner has a coined made of them and I think we'd all like to see Randi's face on a coin.

Cheers

Jamie

[TheDoLittle]

My Google-fu produced:

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/magician-david-blaine-nominated-consideration/story.aspx?guid=%7B397BD8BD-B40E-4772-9F67-86A1DE1BF3BD%7D&dist=hppr

and:

http://www.houdini.org/


BTW, you can delete the "http://" part and insert spaces in between the "." to fool the forum AI into letting you post a link... that is until the AI legalizes it for you when you hit the appropriate number of posts.

[davefoc]

I was amazed that the breath holding record was 17 minutes and change.

That was about double what I thought it was, so I was skeptical. After a little poling around I found out that Blaines record is breath holding after breathing pure oxygen. The standard air record is a little more than 8 minutes.

Time article on Blaine and breath holding in general:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1736834,00.html

Anyway Walton, thanks for the link. I am always interested in Randi related news.

[Skeptic_Al]

No disrespect intended to the Houdini Museum, but that's one seriously ugly website they have! :boggled:

[yairhol]

can the "people" have a say on who wins?
I'd like to vote for Randi.
Thanks

[TheDoLittle]

No disrespect intended to the Houdini Museum, but that's one seriously ugly website they have! :boggled:

It's absolutely Ed-awful terrible! Granted, I'm fairly confident they are working with a volunteer web person, so they either don't know how to design a site or don't want to put too much effort into it. I also noticed that they may not have done any real updates in a couple of years, so they may not have anyone right now to do their web work.