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Paul Daniels RIP

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  • #32
    tramoreman77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 395 ✭✭tramoreman77


    Rip ,first ever time remembering seeing a magician on the tv


  • #33
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,002 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Berserker wrote: »
    Another good 'un bites the dust. RIP. Loved Louis Theroux's twitter post on his passing.

    RIP Paul Daniels, a thoughtful skeptic, enemy of hucksterism and paranormal flimflam,and gifted magician.


    Louis Theroux's words must be right up there,for the accolade of Best Ever Tribute to another Human Being !

    How many Irish public figures could be deserving of those sentiments ?


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I have almost no memories of him - never really had an interest. Think I was just the wrong age. Slightly too young to notice when he was popular - and slightly too old to care when his career was on the decline. Just bad timing I guess.

    But he came across as quite likeable in the one thing I have seen him in - which was his Carpool interview with Robert Llewellyn (Kryton from Red Dwarf - some great interviews on Carpool). So might be worth watching for people who were fans and are lamenting his loss.


  • #35
    anewme
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    murpho999 wrote: »
    Ah Jaysis, relax wil you. It's a joke on a small Irish forum on the internet. Do you think his family will be reading this by some chance?

    please explain the joke?

    A woman has just lost her husband and one of the first comments is "I hope he leaves it(his money) to the dogs home"

    What is funny about making that statement???

    It just did not need to be said - today on the day of someone's death, or indeed on any day.

    It does not matter whether his family read it or not. Respect and common Decency should come first.

    Too many people when pulled up for this type of rubbish pull the ". You can't take a joke line".

    Well, one of the most important elements to comedy is timing- something Paul Daniels had in spades but the would-be comedy geniuses on this thread are sadly lacking.


  • #36
    Chris_Bradley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,818 ✭✭✭Chris_Bradley


    mansize wrote: »
    What attracted Debbie McGee to the Millionaire Paul Daniels...

    Dreadful thing to say in what was a very long marriage.


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    And I just watched this for the first time too - the appearance (in more than one sense of the word) of both Paul Daniels and his magician son Martin Daniels on the Penn and Teller Show "Fool Us".


  • #38
    Ice Maiden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 600 ✭✭✭Ice Maiden


    I liked him when I was a kid but then found out more about him as an adult and found him eminently dislikeable - or are we only allowed say nice things on this thread?
    AlekSmart wrote: »
    Louis Theroux's words must be right up there,for the accolade of Best Ever Tribute to another Human Being !

    How many Irish public figures could be deserving of those sentiments ?
    Or American, French, Danish, Nigerian, Australian...? :confused:

    Weird statement from the usually erudite Theroux.


  • #39
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,002 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Ice Maiden wrote: »
    Found it eminently dislikeable - or are we only allowed say nice things on this thread?

    Or American, French, Danish, Nigerian, Australian...? :confused:

    Weird statement from the usually erudite Theroux.

    Yea..that's ok.

    However in the context of this being Boards.IE,I decided to limit my scope

    What did you find eminently dislikeable about LT's remarks ?

    I felt they very succinctly summed up Paul Daniels,both personally and professionally,particularly as Daniels was a fully paid up member of the Magic Circle and an Illusionist of great capability.

    Personally,I too,never followed any of Daniel's TV series,and largely only took an interest in him after he had finished with the big-time.


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #40
    [Deleted User]
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    I only know Daniels from the doc Louis Theroux did on him and his wife, and from there I watched a few of his bigger illusions on YT.

    He didn't strike me as a particularly nice man or memorable person, his wife even less so. Still, he's died after a short illness and she's now bereaved and while neither of them would see much of me if we were next door neighbours they did seem devoted to each other.

    It might not be likely that his family read this thread, but I don't understand the need to be sh!tty about people or their families on the day of their death. It's not a case of being compelled to crap on them for the sake of it, surely.

    If you can't say anything positive, the option is always available to say nothing at all.


  • #41
    Ice Maiden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 600 ✭✭✭Ice Maiden


    AlekSmart wrote: »
    Yea..that's ok.

    However in the context of this being Boards.IE,I decided to limit my scope
    But I don't get why you had to say it? :confused:
    Maybe there are Irish people for whom it could be said, but if there aren't, so what? Just looks like more putting down this country, which there is an awful lot of on this forum.
    What did you find eminently dislikeable about LT's remarks ?
    Typo by me - corrected. I meant "him" (Paul Daniels) not "it".


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  • #42
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    monkeysnapper wrote: »
    Does anyone remember the children's TV show he did, there's no mention to it in his list of achievements.

    Was it WinZip . triangle feller . loved that program .
    It was Wizbit, I loved it too, had some really good logical puzzles in it to figure out. (winzip is software compression software)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm2yzVxKFhw


  • #43
    omerin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭omerin


    Candie wrote: »
    I only know Daniels from the doc Louis Theroux did on him and his wife, and from there I watched a few of his bigger illusions on YT.

    He didn't strike me as a particularly nice man or memorable person, his wife even less so. Still, he's died after a short illness and she's now bereaved and while neither of them would see much of me if we were next door neighbours they did seem devoted to each other.

    It might not be likely that his family read this thread, but I don't understand the need to be sh!tty about people or their families on the day of their death. It's not a case of being compelled to crap on them for the sake of it, surely.

    If you can't say anything positive, the option is always available to say nothing at all.

    this is a wtf moment and at the same time a lol. The phrase practice what you preach resonates here.
    He was a celebrity at a time when celebrities took advantage of their status. Watching the Loius doc it was mentioned that he had slept with 300 women during this time, among them groupies, let's hope that he will not be added to the infamous list who took advantage.


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
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    omerin wrote: »
    this is a wtf moment and at the same time a lol. The phrase practice what you preach resonates here.
    He was a celebrity at a time when celebrities took advantage of their status. Watching the Loius doc it was mentioned that he had slept with 300 women during this time, among them groupies, let's hope that he will not be added to the infamous list who took advantage.

    Calling him unmemorable isn't a negative, it's neutral.

    Speculating his wife is a gold digger or that he's a potential sex offender is pretty negative though, perhaps you could have kept that much to yourself.


  • #45
    omerin
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    :rolleyes:

    I didn't say - If you can't say anything positive, the option is always available to say nothing at all


  • #46
    AlekSmart
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    Ice Maiden wrote: »

    But I don't get why you had to say it? :confused:

    Maybe there are Irish people for whom it could be said, but if there aren't, so what? Just looks like more putting down this country, which there is an awful lot of on this forum.

    Typo by me - corrected. I meant "him" (Paul Daniels) not "it".

    Don't be confused.

    As yet,it's still ok to post opinions freely,which is what has us both here I hope ?

    As for "Putting Down The Country",I'd be to the very forefront of fronting-up the place,in response to the very significant campaigns of doom,gloom and depression which regularly serves as comment on how Ireland is run,and how it's citizenry is progressing.

    As for Louis T's comment,I still find it so well crafted and open to interpretations,well beyond simply Paul Daniels the Magician.

    Which is why,I find it a model of eriudite comment.


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #47
    Frank Bullitt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,168 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Was always on Saturday TV when I was young, great personality on TV.

    R.I.P


  • #48
    Capt'n Midnight
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io-Bby3iWVs


  • #49
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,849 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Mod:

    As always folks, remember the difference between speculating and sharing an opinion.


  • #50
    monkeysnapper
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    rubadub wrote: »
    It was Wizbit, I loved it too, had some really good logical puzzles in it to figure out. (winzip is software compression software)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm2yzVxKFhw

    Ha ha my bad .

    He was a freaky little feller wasn't he . wizbit I mean .


  • #51
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Shame that he didn't get longer. A noble man, he took his death with dignity.


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  • #52
    jack presley
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    Just spent the last while in a Paul Daniels rabbit hole on Youtube. Excellent stuff. I had a couple of his magic kits as a kid and used to love the TV show.


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