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Extreme endurance artist David Blaine has certainly stunned the world before with his well-publicized stunts—from spending three weeks journeying through an (unfortunately impacted) Blue Whale's digestive system, to the time he was flash-frozen inside a block of carbonite atop the Arc de Triomphe. But it was the seemingly simplest of tasks that eluded him: breaking the world record for breath-holding, previously held by a centenarian fisherman from Tanzania rumored by villagers to have been sired by a frog. All that changed today on The Oprah Winfrey Show of all places, where the low-talking illusionist was deprived of oxygen for an amazing 17 minutes and 4 seconds. We've included video of the final two, during which an increasingly agitated Oprah grips the thigh of the monitoring physician beside her, asking reasonable enough questions along the lines of, "OK, his eyes just crossed, his skin turn blue, and he slowly floated to the surface. Is that considered a bad sign?"
David Blaine's 'A-Ha' Moment Comes After 17th Oxygen-Deprived Minute
Extreme endurance artist David Blaine has certainly stunned the world before with his well-publicized stunts—from spending three weeks journeying through an (unfortunately impacted) Blue Whale's digestive system, to the time he was flash-frozen inside a block of carbonite atop the Arc de Triomphe. But it was the seemingly simplest of tasks that eluded him: breaking the world record for breath-holding, previously held by a centenarian fisherman from Tanzania rumored by villagers to have been sired by a frog. All that changed today on
5:10 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Seth
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On an unrelated subject . . .
Did y'all realize that when you sign up to be a commenter for "Defamer" that you are AUTOMATICALLY signed up for ALL of Gawker Media's blogs?
Including FLESHBOT!
So, if you type your user name into google it is very likely you will be OUTED as a member of fleshbot, not defamer.
NOT COOL, DEFAMER!!!!
FIX THIS, PLEASE. I DID NOT SIGN UP TO BE A MEMBER OF FLESHBOT.
Or just delete my account . . .
Thanks.
big whoop
Stay tuned tomorrow, when the Deadspin crowd discover themselves at Jezebel.
@nojo: Done and Done.
Ew
I signed up for Fleshbot?
VERY COOL, DEFAMER!!!
Yeah, I'm really starting to bum out as to whether or not anonymous people who don't know me will judge me.
Tom Cruise is back on Oprah this Friday--anybody else thinking what I'm thinking?
"...his eyes just crossed, his skin turn blue, and he slowly floated to the surface. Is that considered a bad sign?"
Actually sounds like the average man's reaction to Oprah after 17 minutes to me.
@Whiteboyfunfark: Oprah has jumped the shark??
What's Fleshbot? (I'm at work, so I dare not try to go there...)
Thank you, Defamer, for referring to DB as an "Extreme Endurance Artist" and not a magician (which is an insult to magicians everywhere.)
I would have been the guy that walks up to the big bowl of water at the 16:40 mark and pisses in it to add an extra element of excitement and danger.
This is like gettinga free ride at Disneyland..instant access to Fleshbot!!
Blaine who? Is he on Big Brother or something? (I prefer my magicians with smoke and mirrors thank you very much)
@moondawg9: You fool! This insult you complain about, she is a gift.
OK, I'm off to post "moondawg9 is a Fleshbot member" on comment sections and Google-indexed sites all over this here Web! Who'll join me?
moondawg9 - All Gawker media works the same way. Gizmodo, Consumerist, Kotaku, all of them. But a Google search will only connect you to Fleshbot if you've actually posted comments to Fleshbot.
If you don't go to Fleshbot then you're cool.
Where's my world record for shortest holding of breath for whatever David Blaine does? My feat: NO nanosecond of time holding my breath!!!!!!
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